Fonds consists of a collection of financial records, invoices for parts and repairs, site plans, administrative records, and photographic negatives relating to Victoria Machinery Depot covering the years 1898 to 1970.

Material related to Walter Litster's career on the CS Restorer, including Certificates of Discharge from 1927-1935, and a radiogram to his wife sent from Guam in 1937.

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

Fonds consists of a passenger list for Canadian Pacific Steamship Empress of Russia, 5 June 1937.

Fonds consists of a scrapbook kept by Leona Hunter in 1929. The book contains newspaper clippings of people and events around Victoria glued into the pages of a journal, and a dozen loose clippings slipped into the front cover.

Fonds consists of notes, correspondence, and ephemera related to the Kalakala Foundation and photographs and newspaper clippings related to the history of M/V Kalakala and returning the vessel to Seattle.

Fonds consist of a ship plan, detailing a proposal to transform the Princess Marguerite into an addition of the Maritime Museum of BC.

The Princess Marguerite was a small luxury liner built in 1948 in Scotland by the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Limited for Canadian Pacific Steamships. She and her sister ship, Princess Patricia, were designed to run the triangle route between Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle during the summer months. She arrived to Victoria April 6th 1949 and entered service April 28. In the early-mid 1970s she went through a conversion at Yarrows Ltd. She was taken out of service in the 1970s, returned to service in the 80s until her retirement in 1989. Although effort was put into keeping Princess Marguerite in Victoria waters she left in 1992.
The items in this series are clearly labeled or were in an envelope that was labelled with other Princess Marguerite items.

The series contains:
5 subseries: Manuals, Ship Plans, Reference Lists, Inspection Photos, Evacuation Photos
1 photograph

0058: 1 photograph ; col.; 9 x 11 cm
This colour fuzzy colour photograph shows a row of cars on the car deck of a ferry. There is a person in the background of the photo. The photo was taken near the stairway up to the passenger decks.

Fonds consists of a Sons of the Sea initiation certificate for M/V Moveria dated 8 October 1935, and 7 photo albums consisting of photographs of vessels organized into the categories naval vessels, fishing vessels, passenger and freight vessels, ferries and government vessels, tugs, and dockyards around Vancouver Island. Also included are 47 loose album pages.

Fonds also includes an oak box contains mostly photographs from 1963 to 1967 of ships in Victoria. There are a mix of naval vessels, coast guard ships, and various vessels in local shipyards, including Island Tug and Barge.

The fonds consists of Grant's papers as able seaman and hunter in sealing vessels operating out of Victoria, British Columbia and out of Japan. Fonds relate to voyages between 1892 and 1908 and includes items such as wages for seal skins, itemized list of purchases for sealing trips, sailor's union pamphlet, correspondence, and grocery lists.

Also includes records from Victoria Sealing Company showing Grant's earnings in five schooners between 1900 and 1907 including, Director from December 1900 to October 1901; Triumph from December 1901 to September 1902; C.G. Cox from February to June 1907; Dora Sieward from June to November 1907; and Giblie (sp?) from January to October 1908. And, includes document dated 12 September 12 1892 on Marvin Company letterhead recoding a voyage of the schooner EB Marvin and showing wages, allowance for skins taken, and deductions for items purchased on board such as clothing and tobacco. This document shows that over a period of 8 months and 8 days Grant earned $410 but was charged $174.85 for purchases, for net earnings of $235.15. There is also a document in Russian dated 30 September 1905 showing that Grant, while a mate in the sealing schooner, Khokus Maru was arrested by the 199th Svir Regiment.