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Front of page contains 5 black and white photos on seining. One boat and its tender with the crew working with the net. Some of the photos are blurry.
Back of page contains 3 colour photos. The one with herring in the brailer of the boat appears to be hand coloured. The other two photos are of boats, “Pete” and “New Liverpool”. “New Liverpool” was owned by Nisuke Nakanichi who worked for the Long Beach Tuna Company, and was seized in 1942.

Front of page contains 1 photo of Tofino BC. The postcard contains a view of part of the town with docks with writing on the bottom left stating Tofino, BC. The back of the postcard states the business in the buildings.
Back of page contains 3 photos that are blurry. The first photo is labeled ‘Lone Cone from hotel window’, and is a view over a roof of the water and mountains. The second photo is labeled ‘Ye Olde White Wings. Many Royal Times had here’. It is a blurry photo of a building with a restaurant on its roof. The third photo is of the boat “West Hope”.

The front of the page has two hand colour photos. The first is of “Bertha L” on fire at the Tofino wharf. The other boats at the wharf are “Ryuo II” and “Ruth B.”. The second photo is another one of “Bertha L.” burning but is being towed by “Ruth B” and “Norpack I” away from the deck. The photos are slightly wavy. “Ryuo II” was owned by Kitaro Nitta who worked as a fish buyer for the Canadian Fishing Co. Ltd. and Bertha L. was owned by the Clayoquot Sound Canning Co.Ltd.
There is nothing on the back of the page.

Photo of Wilson in uniform with his hand in his pocket standing in front of “Southern Cross” with people working in the background in the distance on the dock.

This pencil drawing by an unknown artist shows the HMS Bounty anchored by a coastline that has palm trees. There are no people in the work. There is a semblance of a signature in pencil near the bottom right corner that has the copyright symbol next to it.

This collection of Christmas cards belonged to Joseph Dakers, as he was childhood friends with Harold Elworthy. The Christmas cards of Island Tug and Barge are well known with their illustrations by Edward Goodall.
The company was founded in 1924 by Harold Elworthy (1901-75), acquiring Gardner Towing in 1926, 1956 acquired Young & Gore and in 1958 acquired Victoria Tug, who remained the president of the company until 1970. It provided towing services to different local industries in Victoria and then expanded in World War II to deep-sea towing and salvage and pioneered the use of self-dumping log barges. One of their most famous was the “Sudbury” tug. The company is now known to offer bulk fuel transportation, specialty towing, marine logistics, submarine cable laying, commercial diving, and more. They are the marine transporter of choice for some of the world’s leading multinational oil companies. In 1960 McAllister Towing of Montreal, purchased the company in 1960. In 1968 it was acquired by Genstar Ltd, which in 1969 joined Dillingham Corporation. In 1970 Seaspan International Ltd. was created by the acquisition of the Vancouver Tug Boat Company and Island Tug & Barge through Dillingham. The name Island Tug and Barge was sold 1993. Seaspan has continued to purchase and merge with companies in the marine transportation and building business.

The postcard is labeled SS Princess Victoria, Photo by “Trio”, Victoria BC. The annotation on the back dates it at 1908. The image shows the decks of the ship covered in people. In the background is the Pither & Leiser Importers building.
The Princess Victoria, built in 1903, was owned by the CPR Steamship Services and entered Vancouver-Victoria service. In 1934 she was used as a floating hotel in Nanaimo. She had made collisions from the time she was built until 1953 when she sunk while being towed after striking a rock north of Sechelt.

The postcard shows an image of a profile view of the tug Olive M close to the coastline, with a Cliffside behind the tug. The back annotations states that Olive M was built in 1911 in Vancouver and was acquired by Island Tug & Barge in 1948 and renamed Sea King I. The postcard was sent to Bill Mills from Arthur with the note “A picture of Olive M at Bull Pass”.

A photo of Kenkon Maru III at a tilt stuck on a reef with the crew members getting into a tender. The back states it was the Kenkon Maru on Bellchain Reef between 1910-1920; Kenkon Maru III Japanese Steamer stranded on Belle Chain Reef, Adjacent to Mayne Island January 12, 1916. The photo has creases and tears around the edges. The donor states that the photo was taken by Bill Mill’s friend Arthur.
Kenkon Maru III originally built in 1890 in Scotland and in 1910 was owned by Inui Gomei Kaisha, Japan. In 1916 she left Seattle for Vladivostok, Russia via Nanaimo, she ran aground during a snow storm as there was a faulty compass. She was also carrying iron railway equipment for the Russian government.

It covers a wide range of West Coast maritime history. Starting with the photo of the disaster of Point Ellice Bridge in 1896 that belonged to a Mrs A Haggart. It also contains a postcard of HMS Hood, photos of different ships in Victoria, photos of DGS Samson and crew, postcard of the Inner Harbour, Dawson Steamer journeying to White Horse, and a panorama view of the workers of the Foundation Co BC Ltd and some of their ships. The newspaper clippings cover the last trip of SS Princess Joan to Vancouver.
The fonds consists of:
1 series that contains 2 newspaper clippings
1 certificate
12 photographs