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              14 Archival description results for Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

              Alix O'Grady Fonds
              999.144.0001 · Fonds · 1852

              Fonds consist of a repoduction of map, originally published in Atlas of the Northwest Coast.

              Teben'kov, Captain M.D.
              Amy Stewart Fonds
              005.050.0001 · Fonds · 1958

              Fonds consists of the official souvenir programme for the British Columbia Centenary Naval Review and associated Naval activities, 1958.

              B.C. Ferries Fonds
              L3354, L4511, 984.053.0001, 985.050.0001, 989.051.0001-0019, 997.050.0001, 997.051.0001, 019.R.0031 · Fonds · 1963-1985

              Fonds consists of B.C. Ferries ephemera collected by travellers between 1963 and 1985.

              L3354
              M/V Queen of Esquimalt dinner menu.

              L4511
              British Columbia Ferry Corporation memento certificate recognizing the carrying of 100 millionth passenger, dated 18 March 1978, signed by Honourable Sam Bawlf.

              984.053.0001
              Promotional pamphlet for M/V Queen of the North and M/V Queen of Prince Rupert.

              985.050.0001
              May/June 1985 issue of "Dolphi", the B.C. Ferries Newsletter.

              989.051.0001-0019
              B.C. Ferries schedules and maps for voyages between Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, and the sunshine coast, dating from 1963 to 1977.

              997.050.0001
              Slide carousel, in original box, with 108 slides featuring photographs of B.C. Ferries lifeboats and life rafts.

              997.051.0001
              Slide carousel, in original box, with 121 slides featuring primarily photographs of parts of ships.

              B.C. Ferries
              989.051 · Fonds · 1964 - 1977

              Travel schedules for BC Ferries, travelling throughout southern Vancouver Island. 19 unique brochures, with some duplicates.

              B.C. Ferries
              Capital Iron Fonds
              2022.029 · Fonds · unknown [predominantly]

              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.

              Capital Iron and Metals Company Limited
              Cartographic Series
              2022.029.0067-83 · Series · 1878
              Part of Capital Iron Fonds

              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)

              Capital Iron and Metals Company Limited
              Frederick V. Longstaff Fonds
              L816, L819, L1221 · Fonds · 1927-1934

              Fonds consists of two pamphlets published by F.V. Longstaff titled "The Uganda in Action" and "To Commission and To Pay Off", a ship models catalogue exhibited by the Shop Model Society at the second annual exhibition, 1933, and a catalogue of the second exhibition, April 1934 of the Ship Thermopylae, arranged by the Ship Lovers Association of Victoria, B.C.

              Also includes a photo album titled "The Warwick Album". Includes photos of ports and whaling stations around Vancouver Island.

              Longstaff, Frederick V.
              G. Russell Fonds
              988.179.0002-0003 · Fonds · 1952

              Fonds consists of a Canadian Pacific Steamships Limited Empress of France abstract of a log for a voyage from Montreal & Quebec to Liverpool departing on 6 June 1952 and a pamphlet for C.P. Rail Ferry service from Vancouver-Vancouver Island.

              G.H. Barrick Fonds
              019.R.0015 · Fonds · 1993

              Fonds consist of a manuscript written by Barrick, detailing his history in the Royal Canadian Navy: "Canada's Naval Pioneers."

              Barrick, Geoffrey Herbert
              HMCS Patrician Collection
              L3544, 018.R.0001.1-50 · Fonds · 1920-1927

              Fonds consists of a collection of engine room registers from HMCS Patrician dating from 1920 to 1927. Each book consists of daily entries signed by the engineer officer, covering approximately three months. The books appear to of Royal Navy or Imperial origin most recently re-issued in December 1916 intended for “Torpedo Boats, Torpedo Boat Destroyers, and Special Ships” and the printed instructions in front are identified as issued by the Department of the Naval Service 1916. Each book also includes pages at the front for recording the names of the engineering complement and pages at the back for recording boiler examinations, repairs, etc.

              See attached finding aid.

              HMCS Patrician (ship)