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Photo of a seining crew pulling in their catch from the net to the boat via brailer. The photo is blurry.

Front of page contains 4 photos. The page is labeled Chstermans Beach. Three of the photos are blurry photos of the coastline. The fourth photo is of a seiner boat coming into the wharf.
The back contains no photos.

Black and white photographs of the crew and Westinghouse family members of “Southern Cross” in Victoria BC in 1940. The backs have been stamped with the date that they were printed September 11, 1940.
The photos are labeled by Agnes Westinghouse on the back as Victoria 1940. Information provided by the donor includes a newspaper blurb that the yacht “may be seen again in BC waters if a proposed northern development scheme is given government approval. Southern Cross…made a wartime visit to Vancouver in 1940”.
Southern Cross was a Swedish yacht owned by Axel Wenner-Gren, and was one of the fifth or sixth largest private motor yacht in the world at the time. She was previously owned by Howard Hughes and was built in 1930 for Lord Inchcape who died in 1932. The figurehead was made in the likeness of Lord Inchcape's daughter, Elsie Mackay, who disappeared whilst attempting to fly the Atlantic in 1928.

The information on the poster provided in English and French states: Destroyer landing: a Sea King helicopter over the flight deck of HMCS Iroquois, one of the new DDH 280 class destroyers. The photo is a DND photo taken in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. The absence of hangar-top and hangar-face lines and other appropriate flight deck markings meant that the flight deck was not yet certified for landing at the time of the photo, as the ship had just been accepted into the CF. The image was taken by the DND

The print reproduction of a painting depicts a coast guard ship with a helicopter, with mountains and a sailboat in the background. It is the 66th copy of a 100 signed prints made of the work. It was painted by Robert McVittie, CSMA, FCA.

This print reproduction of Robert McVittie’s painting depicts the tender containing three people heading back to the Thermopylae. There is pen and coloured pencil on the margin of the print at the bottom near the title of the work. The artwork is signed on the bottom left of the painting. The Thermopylae was berthed in Victoria from 1891 to 1895.

A Christmas card from Island Tug & Barge. The exterior is blank, the left side of the card has the words: With our best wishes fro Christmas and the New Year from Island Tug & Barge Ltd. The right side of the card contains a drawing by Edward Goodall of the “Towing of the Battleship ‘Alamirante Latorre’ Chile to Japan”. The tug Cambrian Salvor pulling a military ship with clouds in the sky and a seagull near the bottom left corner near the signature. There is some slight discolouration.

A photograph of ships dressed in flags with people walking on a walkway on the beach. The back labels this photo as HMS Hood and Repulse visiting Victoria 1924. The faces of the people are not visible and the second ship is blurry.
Hood was built in Scotland in 1920, the Repulse was built in 1916, they were built as warships for the British Royal Navy. They visited on 25 June 1924.

The back of the postcard has the annotation that Peerless was built in 1904 in New Westminster. The photo is a profile view of the tug Peerless with three men visible with a forested coast in the background.
Peerless was owned 1904-1910 by Westminster Towing & Fishing Company, and the next known owner in 1920-1926 was Coyle Towing Co Ltd.

A photograph from across a lake towards a village during winter, and what appears to be six buildings. The back says: union bay last winter the chief took this sometime during 1910-1920. The edges of the photo are faded and there are some creases.
Union Bay is on the east coast of Vancouver Island in the Comox Valley, the territory of Pentl’ach and Komoks people, that used to be a major shipping port for the Union Coal Company. The Union Bay Historical Society was formed in 1989 to preserve historic buildings, with a group of them relocated and restored on what is now known as Historic Row including the 1913 post office and the old jailhouse. The wharves that had been opened in 1889 at the time had been some of the largest in BC, and in 1914 the extension of the railroad reached Union Bay. The final sailing ship to load coal at the wharves was the Pamir in 1946.