Fonds consists of notes and manuscripts relating to Reverand Rollo Moritz Boas, including extensive history of his life and work.

Also includes, "Raincoast Chronicles First Five: Stories and History of the B.C. Coast", three issues of B.C. Historical News magazine, a 1951 issue of Saturday Night magazine, 12 issues of The Log newsletter, the official publication of the Columbia Coast Mission dating from 1965 to 1974, and a short history of Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria, B.C.

Fonds consists of assorted books, documents, and photographs received from HMCS Naden or related to the history and operations of HMCS Naden, HMC Dockyard, Esquimalt, CFB Esquimalt, and the Royal Canadian Navy in and around Victoria and Esquimalt.

L242:
Record book titled "Naval Records No. 305" consisting of records of correspondence to and from Esquimalt from 1904 to 1906.

L243:
Record book titled "Naval Records No. 305" consisting of records of correspondence to and from Esquimalt from 1903 to 1907.

L304:
Esquimalt Naval Establishment Records Part I dating from 21 August 1862 to 30 December 1871. Also includes indexes to parts II and III.

L305:
Esquimalt Naval Establishment Records Part II dating from 11 January 1871 to 18 August 1857.

L306:
Esquimalt Naval Establishment Records Part III dating from 14 July 1875 to 14 December 1881.

L487:
Booklet containing a list of items for new works, buildings, and repairs, proposed to be inserted in the estimates for 1904-1905 for Esquimalt Naval Yard including two pages of estimated costs for the naval yard and the victualling yard.

L781:
Folder containing accounts instructions regarding entry, discharge, payment, etc. of workmen at HMC Dockyard, Esquimalt in 1915.

P821:
Invitation from Yarrows Limited for the launching of the second caisson being built by them for the new government dry dock in Esquimalt.

L1220:
Canadian War Museum booklet describing the military history of Canada and a minute sheet that was slipped inside.

L1259:
Booklet titled "Royal Canadian Navy, Pacific Command, Navy at Esquimalt" dated 17 August 1955.

L1298:
Report of proceedings in the Department of Naval Service for the week ending 28 November 1919 from Canadian Naval Staff Officer to the Captain Superintendent at HMC Dockyard, Esquimalt.

L1697:
Map of HMC Dockyard, Esquimalt showing buildings and data on buildings, ca. 1965.

L1698:
Pamphlet titled "Instructions for the use of the modified Battenburg and examples of the solution of certain standard problems".

L1700:
Department of Marine & Fisheries contract between His Majesty, The King and Messrs. The Victoria Machinery Depot Company Limited, Victoria BC for two steel single screw cargo steamers of 8,100 T. Deadweight each, dated 29 January 1919.

L1701:
List of costs for Harbour Marine Company Limited. Cost construction as at 31 January 1921.

L2406:
Booklets titled "Portage by-laws for the district of Yale and New Westminster established by the Pilotage authority" published in Vancouver by Thomson Bros, 1894.

L2407:
Booklet titled "Rules and Regulations for the management and working of the graving dock at Esquimalt, BC", published in Ottawa by Queen's Printer, 1890.

L2475:
Programme for the acceptance ceremony of CNAV Endeavour, 9 March 1965 at Yarrows Limited, Esquimalt.

L3097:
Booklet titled "Instructions for Running and Care and Maintenance of 'D' Type Engines" dated 4 June 1918.

L3541:
Deck log book used by HMCS Naden at Esquimalt with entries relating to HMCS Naden, HMCS Ontario, HMCS Stadacona, HMCS Cornwallis, HMCS Cayuga, HMCS Athabascan, HMCS Rockcliffe, HMCS Unicorn, HMCS Sioux, and HMCS Chatham, dating from 4 April to 29 April 1950.

979.097.0001
Article titled "Esquimalt Dockyard's First Building" dated 16 October 1946. Appears to have been cut out of a book or magazine.

982.027.0001:
Boarding officers' packet consisting of a cardboard box containing language cards in 15 languages and an illustrations card.

982.027.0002:
A 1962 boarding officers' packet consisting of a black leather pouch containing cards to assist visiting officers, specifically "hints for visiting officers", a card of illustrations, and language cards with useful questions and phrases in 25 languages.

983.018.0001:
Programme and map guide for Armed Forces Day, 1983 held at CFB Esquimalt.

983.018.0002:
1983 Armed Forces Day sticker.

984.009.0001:
Programme for the Commissioning Ceremony, Second Canadian Minesweeping Squadron, HMCS Comox and HMCS James Bay at HMC Dockyard, Esquimalt, 3 May 1954.

984.030.0001:
Blank log book titled "Gunner's Naval Ordnance Torpedo Store Account Expense Book".

984.030.0002:
Two blank tactical exercise and torpedo practice forms, 1926.

984.035.0001:
Rough signal log book, N.S.O., Esquimalt dating from August to September 1917.

984.035.0002:
Officers' victualling, leave, and checkbook.

984.035.0003:
Inspection of public money record book for the HMCS Rainbow dating to 1918.

984.035.0004:
Schedules of accounts record book for HMCS Shearwater and Rainbow dating from 1 January 1917 to 1920.

984.035.0005:
Officers' pay book for HMCS Rainbow dating from 30 April 1918 to 30 April 1920.

984.035.0007:
R.C.N. gunnery school classes log book dated 1 January 1938.

984.035.0008.1:
Bank books dating from 28 August 1919 to May 1920.

984.035.0008.2:
Correspondence between the chief accountant of the Department of Naval Services and the commanding officer of HMCS Shearwater and the commander officer of HMCS Rainbow. Also, one deposit notice from the Bank of Montreal to the Paymaster of the Royal Naval College, Esquimalt. Dating from 1919 to 1920.

992.028.0002:
Book of Royal Canadian Navy navigation charts/maps in the Pacific around Vancouver Island, Alaska, and Hawaii. Stamped by HMC Dockyard, Esquimalt chart depot, 26 November 1964.

010.048.0003-0008:
Photographs of miscellaneous vessels in Victoria and Esquimalt Harbour dating from 1964 to 1971, photographs of HMCS Oriole in 1970, photographs of CCGS Racer in 1963, photographs of side shell damage and repair on M/V Don Ramon in 1965, close up photographs of a barge hull, and photographs of the log barge Island Yarder at Yarrows Warf in 1965.

981.017.0001-0006
Ticket stubs for Canadian Pacific Railway Company Steamship Lines and Canadian National Steamship Company Limited dated 1947, 1955, and 1957.

984.033.0001-0003
M/V Northland Prince dinner menu from 27 July 1971, Canadian Pacific Railway Company Steamship Line ticket for voyage from Vancouver to Victoria departing 28 December 1958, and a passenger schedule including map for Northland Navigation Company Limited M/V Northland Prince.

986.031.0001
Stickers, menus, pamphlets, passenger lists, tickets, cards, photographs, magazines, and other travel memorabilia related to a number of cruise lines and hotels. Also, a Canadian Merchant Service Guild magazine.

988.028.0001
Magazine for the Queen Elizabeth II transatlantic cruise, published by Cunard Steamship Company Limited in 1987.

988.185.0004
Postcards of Canadian Pacific Railway Steamship Princess Elizabeth and a postcard of a Holland American Line vessel.

989.052.0001-0013
Assorted pamphlets from steamship line cruises around the Pacific coast of British Columbia, Vancouver Island, and Alaska. Includes Union Steamships, Puget Sound Navigation Company, Canadian National Steamship company, and Canadian Pacific Princess Lines. Also includes one pamphlet for a French Line cruise on SS Normandie. Most are undated, but one is dated to 1935, two to 1936, and two are dated to 1938.

999.073.0000-0050
Box containing package of post cards title "All the World's Liners" featuring drawings of passenger steamships.

999.082.0001-0003
Souvenir folders of scenic images of the Canadian Rockies and Alaska, a Cunard Line baggage tag, and a newspaper clipping.

999.189-222
Assorted postcards featuring photographs and drawings of various passenger steamships.

Also includes souvenir log charts and place mats for different ferry corporations.

The fonds consists of photos, ship plans, maps, and lists and paperwork. Besides the maps, the rest of the material is related to Princess Marguerite and Princess Patricia, except for the 9 items below.

The fonds consists of:
2 series-Princess Marguerite; Cartographic
5 subseries-Princess Marguerite Manuals, Ship Plans, Reference Lists, Inspection Photos, Evacuation Raft Photos
9 items
Items: 0014-18, 0028, 0059, 0066, 0084

0014: 1 photograph : b&w ; 37.5 x 49.5 cm
Photo of 21 people on the deck but only 4 people’s faces are visible. The four are in uniform standing in front of a 6” gun behind the guardrail of the ship. There are people and a ship in the background that are blurs because they were moving at the time the photo was taken. There is a noticeable black hole in the hull of the ship and marks in the photo that transferred from the print making from the negative where it had been burned. The photo was made from a negative from the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum Photographic Archive that was within the Harland & Wolff Collection.

Harland & Wolff is a British shipbuilding company who is most famous for their ocean liners, including the Titanic.

0015: 1 technical drawing : b&w mylar ; 37 x 50 cm
The technical drawing is the general arrangement of the TSS Cardena. The Cardena was built in 1923 and was broken up in 1961 by Capital Iron & Metals Co. Ltd.

0016: 1 technical drawing : 28 x 62 cm
This drawing from 1 September 1941 shows the repairs to the Williamshead Port Angeles Sub. Cable that was copied from the BC Telephone Blueprint No.-D14256. Submarine cables were laid on the seabed to carry telecommunication signals across the ocean. They were first used in the 1850s and have changed over time with developing technology.

0017: 1 map : b&w, annotations ; 61 x 49 cm
The 1948 map shows the William Head Port Angeles Cable Route that was taken from marine chart 6382. Submarine cables were laid on the seabed to carry telecommunication signals across the ocean. They were first used in the 1850s and have changed over time with developing technology.

0018: 1 booklet : 28 x 23 cm
The Diving Apparatus Manual from the John Date
John Date Diving company was the only diving company that produced diving helmets in Canada in the early 1800s onwards. The manual has a stamp from Brown, Fraser & Co., Ltd., who are the succesors to Dominion Equipment & Supply Co., Ltd for Mining, municipal and Contractors’ Machinery and Supplies.
It has 56 artist renderings that accurately depict the several types of diving related equipment that was once sold by the John Date Company. These period depictions show Helmets, Pumps, Helmet fittings, Diving dresses, Diver telephonic apparatus, Air hose and fittings, Weights and boots, Submarine electric lamps and lanterns, and other interesting items.

0028: 1 print: b&w and some colour; 42.5 x 35.5 cm
The print of a steering wheel and steering gear and part of rudder stock is a drawing adapted from A. Cambell Holms, Practical Shipbuilding (London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green & Co, 1908). On the print there is also information about a Steering Wheel from the Riversdale built by W. Hamilton & Co. at Port Glasgow, Scotland in 1894; and Steering Gear and Part of rudder stock from the ship Blairmore built by A. McMillan & Son in 1893 in Scotland. These were donated somewhere by Crown Zellerbach Corporation, and Morris Greene Industries and Capital Iron & Metals, Ltd. respectfully.

0059: 1 photograph : b&w ; 39.5 x 50 cm on card
This photo printed on a board shows a ferry in the water from above. The name is illegible because of the blur.

0066: 1 card: 15 x 23 cm
The card has a copy of the painting of “Pacific Swift” by Harry Heine on the front, with information about the artist and the ship on the back, with a blank interior. The painting was made in 1986, which is the year the ship was built, and it shows the square topsail schooner Pacific Swift at sea with a ferry in the background. The vessel was built as a working exhibit for Expo ’86 in Vancouver and was the newest addition to the SALTS fleet
The 1986 copyright for the image belongs to SALTS.

0084: 1 card: 15 x 23 cm
The card has a copy of the painting of “Swift” by Harry Heine on the front, with information about the artist and the ship on the back, with a some writing inside. The Swift depicted is a replica of the original (1778) which was built in 1938. Provided from the card: The Swift of Ipswich has voyaged successfully for many years and this rendering of her depicts many vessels of the period which first penetrated the rock-bound coves and inlets of British Columbia.
Inside is a note on a SALTS auction to someone who donated an oil lamp to the auction from John Darling on behalf of SALTS.
The 1986 copyright for the image belongs to SALTS.

The 17 maps cover the west coast of British Columbia, but primarily the south coast of Vancouver Island, with some coverage of Vancouver Island and the coast of the mainland. The maps contain small corrections from the time that they were published.

From the charts it is possible to get the names of the surveyors, see a pattern of the most common to show up are PC Musgrave, WK Willis, HD Parizeau, F Anderson, JH Knight, HP Douglas. Along with publication info there was also the occasional mention of JD (John Dennett) Potter who sold them as he was an agent for the Admiralty charts.

The series contains 17 maps:
1944-Map of Esquimalt Harbour
1934- Colour Map of Esquimalt Harbour
1940-Map of Victoria Harbour
1914-Map of Sooke Inlet
1908-Map of Masset Harbour (survey done on ship Egeria)
1943-Map of Fraser River: Steveston to Tilbury Island
1943-Colour Map of Nanaimo Harbour
1935-Map of Plans of South Coast of Vancouver Island (Esquimalt and Victoria Harbours)
1925-Map of Esquimalt and Victoria Harbours (survey done on HMS Hecate)
1928-Map of Vancouver Island Race Rocks to Discovery Island
1900-Map of Vancouver Island and Adjacent Shores
1878-Map of Becher Bay
1939-Colour Map of Rivers Inlet and Nelson Narrows
1922-Colour Map of Granby Bay, Alice Arm
1942-Colour Map of Prince Rupert Harbour and Approaches
1929-Colour Map of Approaches to Skeena River
1943-Map of Plans in the Vicinity of Fitz Hugh Sound (Namu Harbour, Kwakshua Channel, Passages in Vicinity of Addenbroke Island)