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Fonds consists of a fold-out 1987 calendar from Zim Israel Navigation Company Ltd.

Fonds consist of financial records, docking records, and correspondence related to Yarrows Shipbuilding, Ltd, ranging from 1921 to 1926. Also includes a photo album taken by and for Yarrows. Also includes a ship plan reproduction for the HMS Wilde Goose, designed by John Lambert for Yarrow & company in the UK. FAlso contains periodicals, Seaports and the World, and blueprints built by Harbour Marine Co. Ltd. Also contains plans and drawings.

Fonds consist of photo albums for industrial sites, workers and executives, and equipment from various forestry and engineering businesses, in addition to Yarrows itself. Also includes work done by the National Council of Jewish Women. Also contains photo albums of royal visits to Yarrows Limited, including the Duke of Devonshire, and the Prince of Wales. Also includes photos of the M/V Kalvik.

Fonds consists of

1. a log book containing letters and orders received by J. Walker, naval storekeeper, and Mr. Kyte of Quebec dating to 1815.
2. Chapter 109 of the Naval Discipline Act of 1866, printed in accordance with Naval Discipline (no. 2) Act, 1915.
3. A naval stores record book, shipbuilder's account, kept by Thos. Strickland, 1810.

Fonds consists of a souvenir magazine for the W.R.C.N.S. Vancouver reunion to be held 22-24 August 1958.

Fonds consists of a package of ship charts and drawing material dating to 1960. They are wrapped in plastic, never opened.

Fonds consists of a photograph catalogue from the World Ship Society, Vancouver, B.C. Branch, dating to 1 December 1958. Consists of a list of ships with catalogue numbers and a title page that explains ordering and pricing.

Fonds consists of convoy records for HMCS Arnprior, dating from 8 June 1944 to 30 April 1945, containing pencilled record on naval message form S 1320B.

Fonds consists of photocopies of records relating to the career of John Allan Williams during service in sternwheelers and steam tugs on B.C. Lakes for C.P.R. during the period of 1918 to 1931.

1. Transcript from the manuscript pages of a narrative written by John Allan Williams, describing his family history and his career with the Canadian Pacific Railway British Columbia Lake and River Service beginning in 1918

2. Photocopied pages of a notebook maintained by John Allan Williams during his period of employment in various steamboats from 1923 to 1931 with particular senior officers of vessels and vessel statistics

3. Photocopies of letters of reference from the period 1918 to 1931.

Fonds consists of documents relating to the professional life of William White including records of his service as ship’s steward’s boy starting in 1854 aboard HMS Lyra serving in East Africa and records of his service on HMS Scout from 1870 to 1875 while stationed in Esquimalt.

Also includes records pf his service on HMS Cumberland, Medusa, Agincourt, Revenge, Wizard, and Hibernia including letters of recommendations from captains, a shipping list from the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1872, a British Columbia license to sell and retail trader, a personal letter from a captain to White’s mother, and two certificates of De Lessepps’ Panama Canal dating to 1893.

Also includes several photographs of White, including one with his wife and 10 children in 1902.