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Fonds consists of a handwritten letter written by the donor's uncle, Albert Hall in Esquimalt, to his sister, the donor's mother, Marjorie Hall, of Hoare Farm, Sturrey, near Canterbury, Kent, dated 11 September 1904.

Fonds consists of 5 photo albums containing memorabilia relating to ships, the Navy, and global travel dating from the 1940s until the 1970s.

Box 1
Album 1: Contains memorabilia related to the Sea Cadet Corps and global travel including photographs, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, certificates, official documents, programs. Documents date from 1942 to 1948.

Album 2: Contains memorabilia relating to global travel including photographs, menus, pamphlets programmes, guide books, newspaper clippings, Documents date from 1948 to 1958.

Album 3: Contains memorabilia related to Cunard Steamship Company Limited including invitations, passenger lists, promotional pamphlets, menus, cards, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, photos, and letters. Also includes documents relating to Kent Line Limited, Motor Vessel Owners, the Royal Navy, and Royal Mail Ships. Documents date from 1958 to 1968.

Box 2
Album 4: Contains documents notes, photographs, and newspaper clippings related to the Titanic, the Queen Mary I and II, The Queen Elizabeth II the Queen Mary II, the Royal Navy, the Royal Merchant Navy; the Royal Canadian Navy, the United States Navy, and the Shanghai Incident of 1949.

Album 5: Contains photos of North West Territories Marine Operations from 1976 to 1979.

Fonds consists of a photocopy of Coombe's diary of voyages from 1886 to 1895. The diary details events, deaths, winds, and weather on voyages. Also lists ships that Coombe served on.

Fonds consists of a photostat of a Poem called "Chief Douglas's Daughter". It is a poem written by Ben Griffin, prefactor of Boomerang Inn, giving an account of the elopement of Alice, daughter of Sir James Douglas, with Charles Good, the then Colonial Secretary, ca. 1861. Charles Good was the donor's Great Uncle - the "Drake" referred to in the poem was the Grandfather of Montague Drake.

Fonds consists of photographs of Bill Cottingham (believed to be the same man in all photos), three in sailor uniform and two in civilian clothes, at least one of those taken in Manila, Philipines.

Fonds also includes a photograph of an unidentified woman aboard the ship Chemonceaux, two photographs of RMS Empress of Russia, and a 1935 Christmas card from RMS Empress of Russia.

Fonds consists of three certificates of discharge for Calvin Foote dated 1876, 1881, and 1882, a manuscript listing of ships in which Foote served from 1886 to 1903 and the years he served as a pilot, 1907 to 1929, and a photocopy of a newspaper clipping of the obituary of Captain John Calvin Foote, early B.C. captain and pilot, dated 7 July 1949.

Fonds consist of personal correspondence, and financial expenditure accounts.

Fonds consists of naval messages, call signs, and correspondence kept by Mr. Charles Griffiths, ex-chief yeoman of signals, Royal Canadian Navy.

Fonds consists of assorted photographs and newspaper clippings related to Edmund Cox, the Cox family, and various HMC ships.

Fonds consists of certificates relating to the service of Charles Edward Stewart and Lieutenant William Stewart.

• Certificate from William B. Pauli, consul of his British Majesty in Buenos Aires to Charles Edward Stewart, dated 26 October 1882, entirely in Spanish,
• Two handwritten letters dated 18 July and 22 July 1814, signed by W. Steward, HMS San Josef addressed to captain John Phillips, RN and my brother which begins by saying “The French fleet are now in sight” and lists how Stewart wished his property to be divided equally between his son and daughter and enumerating how he wished various effects divided and debts owed to his Coxswain and servant,
• Commissioning certificate appointing Lieutenant William Stewart as lieutenant of HMS Royal William, dated 15 may 1797,
• Commissioning certificate appointing William Stewart as commander of HMS [?], dated May 1810.