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Fonds consists of two photocopies of images of RMS Empress of Australia and one of another, unidentified C.P.R. ship, a 1950 issue of "Rainbow Log' newsletter of the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets, a black and white photograph of a crowd of people with an unidentified ship in the background, and a black and white photograph of a CYD class cruiser at Ogden Point ca. 1926.

Fonds consists of 4 log books:

1. Journey and Aircraft Log Book for CF-ASV Detroit Sea Rover E-2 Flying Boat dating from 22 May 1933 to 13 September 1935,
2. Engine Log Book for Curtis Challenger and CF-ASV Detroit Sea Rover Flying Boat dating from 3 August 1933 to 20 September 1935. In a pouch in the inside back cover is an Eclips instruction book no. 19,
3. Aircraft log book dating to 1932,
4. Engine log book dating to 1932.

Fonds also includes two copies of a letter from J.N. McDonald, service division, Wright Aeronautical Corporation, U.S.A. to Mr. Martin Braten dated 5 October 1945, a challenger engine characteristics sheet, and a performance chart. These are all contained in an envelope from Wright Aeronautical Corporation sent to Mr. Braten via air mail.

Fonds consists of a December 1907 White Star Line timetable for sailings from Liverpool to various ports, and a small leather bound book containing White Star Line general information, tide tables, etc., dated 1908.

Also includes Canadian Pacific Railway British Columbia Coast Steamship Service and Princess Line steamship service memorabilia including a dinner menu dated 29 May 1939, informational pamphlets for TEV Princess Marguerite and TEV Princess Patricia, and an Alaska Daily Bulletin.

Fonds consists of a manuscript titled "A Sentimental Journey – These are Memories About a Period of Time When a Group of Young Women Shared Time and Space in History. This Was a Time in History When Some Things Would Never Be the Same Again", by Audrey Sim/Shortridge, Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service. Also contains an edited version by Tom Pound on floppy disk.

Fonds consists of information regarding Esquimalt-First Graving Dock / Thetis Cove-Esquimalt Harbour.

Fonds consists of a certificate of competency as master issued to Arthur Wheeler, 11 July 1866.

Fonds consists of a framed photograph of HMCS Digby (1942), HMCS Minas (1941), and HMCS Port Colborne (1943), and a letter of recommendation for A.S. Andrews from the Navy League of Canada to the Captain of M/V Bonnington Court.

Also includes a Canadian Pacific Steamship menu for a goodbye dinner held 5 April 1940 with approx 10 signatures inside, a continuous certificate of discharge booklet issued by the Department of marine & Fisheries Canada for Arthur Stewart Andrews recording discharges from CPR ships between 1936 and 1941, and 12 black and white photos of CPR ships which were removed from a photo album prior to being donated

Fonds consists of a certificate appointing Mr. Arthur Allen to sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy dated 25 November 1873.

Fonds consists of a Canadian Pacific Steamship's Dutchess of Atholl dinner menu dated Sunday, 26 July 1931 and a photograph of 9 unnamed ship's officers.

The Tofino series contains photos and photo album leafs that depict Tofino and the surrounding area, seiners and trollers fishing from 1933-1937. Located on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the traditional territory of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation of the Nuu—chah-nulth people, south of Clayoquot Sound. Settlers came to the site and the surrounding around starting in the 1890s. Officially named Tofino with the opening of a post office in 1909, although its first store was opened in 1901, a school in 1906 and a wharf and lifeboat station in 1908 and its church in 1913. Tofino was incorporated as a municipality in 1932. Tofino developed around the fishing and logging industries, now known for its natural beauty and a great destination for outdoor recreation.
The newspaper covers the events of the naval action that lead to Lord Nelson’s death. Lord Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) was a British Naval Commander known for victories in battles such as the Nile in 1798 and of Trafalgar in 1805, where he was killed. He was promoted to captain in 1779 when he was 20 during the American Revolution.

The fonds consists of:
1 series that contains 9 photographs, 6 photo album leafs
1 newspaper