Fonds contains photos, documents, correspondence, and promotional material including pamphlets and posters related to the Victoria Line, Victoria to Seattle, as well as ships plan for the SS Princess Marguerite II and blueprints for the Vancouver Island Princess Terminal at Ogden Point in Victoria BC. See below for more detailed inventory.

0001
Yellow Duotang titled “Pier 48 / Set-up / Procedures”, dated 1 May 1995. Contains 72 photos of Victoria Line and Pier 48 in Victoria and 1 terminal plan.

0002
White binder labeled “The Victoria Line / Pier 48 / & Misc.” Contains loose pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and parking permits related to the Victoria Line (Victoria – Seattle Car and Passenger Ferry) slipped into front cover and assorted documents, reports, correspondence, and news releases dating to the 1990s.

0003
White binder labeled “The Victoria Line / TMGS Information / Correspondence”. Contains photos of the Victoria Line Pier 48 Set-up 4 October 1994, business licences with the city of Seattle dating from 1994 to 1996, registration licenses with the state of Washington, and a certificate of authority from the state of Washington secretary of state slipped into front cover, and assorted documents, correspondence, notes, staff lists, dating to the 1990s.

0004
Laminated ships plan for SS Princess Marguerite II, specifically fire control plan.

0005
Five pages of plans/blueprints for the Vancouver Island Princess Terminal at Ogden Point, dated January 1987. Includes mechanical site service plan, site plan, floor plan, elevations plan, and building section. Plans are by W.K. Stockdale & Associates Ltd., and Benjamin Bryce Levinson Architects & Planners.

0006
Victoria Line Banner.

0007
Victoria Seattle Car and Passenger Ferry Poster.

0008a-d
Victoria Line Inaugural Sailing 21 May 1994 posters.

Fonds consists of a folder containing correspondence regarding the Canadian Pacific Railway Company Steamship Service and the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees. Documents are related to changes being made to meal checks, the issue of shortages sustained by cashiers and complaints and problems aboard SS Nanaimo, SS Princess Elizabeth, SS Princess Joan, and TEV Princess Marguerite.

Also includes a folder containing general correspondence, reports, and financial statements regarding Canadian Pacific British Railway Company Steamship service and Union Steamships Limited relating to the 1954 voyages of SS Yukon Princess and SS Cassiar.

Fonds consists of the papers of Carne & Munsie, owners of sealing schooner Mary Belle. Including logs, bills, receipts, correspondence, and two summonses. Fonds also includes a leather account book for William Munsie schooner account with the Bank of British Columbia, dating from January 1893 to 5 February 1896.

Fonds consists of correspondence from Rear-Admiral H.F. Stephenson (Royal Navy Pacific Station) to Lt. Col. G.A.L. Rawstorne relating to mine recommendations by the Admiralty and a reply containing a detailed report and chart with sections contributed by Captain G.E. Barnes and Lt. Poole, Royal Marine Artillery. Chart is of the mouth of Esquimalt Harbour.

Fonds also includes Barnes' photographs of Victoria and Esquimalt area and a mock battle in Beacon Hill Park (Victoria).

The fonds consists of Royal Canadian Navy service records dating from 1894 to 1912, and Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve certificates dating from 1917 to 1919.

Also includes a letter of reference and volunteer sign-up sheet, demobilization certificate, station cards, and two postcards of unidentified people and objects.

Fonds consists of letters from Captain George Hutingford to his wife dating from November 1892 to March 1896, including descriptions of the West Coast of Canada ca. 1892, life in the Royal Navy, and the movements of the HMS Nymphe on the California coast, Mexico, and South America. Contains approximately 400 letters, and a family tree provided by the donor.

Also includes the naval papers belonging to Captain George Huntingford, Royal Navy including the movements of HMS Nymphe from December 1892 to March 1896 and three letters dating to November 1892.

Fonds consists of the apprentice indenture form, Canadian Government Merchant Marine Limited co-operating with the Navy League of Canada, for George Ronald Newell, dated 21 July 1920 and a cancellation of indenture dated 23 November 1923.

Also includes a list of seamen shipped and discharged at the port of Victoria, B.C. c. 1891, an agreement and account of crew of foreign-going ships document filled out for the schooner Dora Siewerd c. 1891, assorted documents relating to survey and repair vessel Nancy Dee during the period of November 1962 and April 1963 including correspondence and notes.

Also includes black and white photographs of lumber in the hold and a drawing of the Royal Yacht Britannia, and a souvenir book of the trial trip of SS Bowness Park, Captain G.R. Newell, with the compliments of the Canadian Transport Company, 2 dinner menus, and a typed summary of VE day celebrations.

Also includes the following log books:

• M/V Island Commander, 2 February to May 29 1943 and 3 June to 3 November 1943,
• Barquentine Forest Friend, October 1920 to March 1923,
• Seaman shipped and discharged at the Port of Victoria,
• Sealing vessel Viva, 1894. Includes the regulations for preventing collisions at sea. Poor condition,
• Register of Victoria Port Warden fees collected during 1901 to 1947,
• Port warden fees, 1934 to 1947.

Fonds consists of personal and professional papers related to Captain D.W. Groos and Commander H.V.W. Groos.

L3
Handwritten note addressed to Commander Groos from George C. Etheridge in Monterry Oak, California. Envelope is postmarked 2 August 1951.

L483
Handwritten account of HMS Shearwater sailing to Madeira in November 1901 and a newspaper clipping from Thursday, 12 April 1979 containing a letter to the editor written by L.R. Ferris, nephew of George Charles Etheridge, passenger of HMS Shearwater in 1901.

L3804
Issue of "The Tiddley Times" the W.R.C.N.S. magazine, dating to January/February 1945.

L4015
Photocopies of papers relating to the barque Elissa, including pages from Lloyd's register of shipping, a builder's certificate for sailing vessels, written history of the ship, correspondence, accountant reports, plans and carts, and general lists and notes, dating primarily to the 1970s.

L4054
Photocopy of the history of the barque Elissa from its construction in 1877 until 1970 including lists of voyages, lists of casualties, a personal account from 1961, and correspondence from Lloyd's register of shipping dating to the 1970s.

L4055
Photocopy of Greek registry records, entirely in Greek, referencing barque Elissa, dating to 1959?

003.028.0001-0003
Book titled "British Columbia Pilot Volume I: Coasts of the United States and British Columbia from Cape Flattery, Juan de Fuca Strait to Cape Caution Together with Vancouver Island", fifth edition, 1923. Also, contracts from Canadian Merchant Service Guild dating from 1939 to 1941.

005.006.0001-0002
Book titled "The Way of a Ship: An Essay on the Literature of Navigation Science" by Lawrence C. Wroth, 1937 and 1 sheet of 1975 Canadian commemorative ships stamps.

Founds consists of documents and advertising material related to the Princess Marguerite including brochures from the 1975 inaugural sailing of the Princess Marguerite II and the campaign to reinstate the ferry service with the Princess Marguerite III and a scrapbook style book titled "Princess Marguerite - The Story of a "Ferry" Princess".

Fonds consists of documents relating to the careers of David Logan (donor's great grandfather) and Daniel Holliday (donor's grandfather) who both worked for the Canadian Government Telegraph and Telephone Service, and to the history of the the West coast of Vancouver Island and the development of the West Coast Trail.

Includes David Logan's 1907 telegraph line log book, Daniel Holliday's 1938-1944 telegraph line log book, and an album containing letters and newspaper clippings collected by the family over the years.