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Melville Jack fonds
CA MMB L4593;L4594;L4595 · Fonds · 1913-1935

The fonds consists of continuous certificate of discharge (1917-1925) and other certificates and indentures of Melville Jack. Fonds includes postcards of the ships Princess Alice and Princess Elaine.

Jack, Melville, b. 1896
Fonds · 1898-1930

The fonds consists of an account book listing names of customers and monthly accounts (1898-1904), rough journals of work, including newsclippings and notes about events, weather and electrical services (1904-1908), and correspondence, notes and service pamphlet (1918-1930).

Nanaimo Electric Light, Power and Heating Company
Nanaimo Foundry fonds
Fonds · 1930-1979

Fonds consists of the business records of the Nanaimo Foundry. Fonds is arranged in four series: 1) Plans, Quotes and Technical Drawings; 2) Photographs; 3) Work Orders and 4) Pattern Book.

Nanaimo Foundry
Norman Turner fonds
CA MMB L982.2.1-13 · Fonds · 1962-1964

The fonds consists of Turner's correspondence files as surveyor, including correspondence with the Department of Transport, Registrars of Shipping and others concerning surveying and tonnage specifications. Fonds includes correspondence and plans with Yarrows Ltd., plans by Raymond H. Richards, Naval Architect, and plans of the oil fuel float for the Royal Victoria Yacht Club. Photographs are general views of salvage of tugs and salvage operations. Painting is of the tug Sudbury II.

Turner, Norman
Fonds · [ca. 1880-ca. 1980]

The collection consists of photographs of Revelstoke area (including Rogers Pass, Big Bend, Glacier, Arrowhead, Three Valley, and the Upper Arrow Lakes) depicting industry, forestry, transportation networks, sports and recreation, community events, individuals, and organizations.

Lorne Pearson collection
NWMA IH 000.15 · Fonds · 1926-1952

Collection consists of the annual reports of the New Westminster Harbour Commission for the years 1926-1938, 1945-1952, and the 1932 report for the Port of Vancouver. These reports contain a summary of the port's annual activities, statistics, and photographs.

CA DMA CR-88 · Fonds · 1948-1960

The fonds consists of minutes of meetings (1948-1960), constitution and by-laws, membership lists, financial records, correspondence, reference material, plans for the Deas Island Tunnel Cairn, agendas, announcements, programs, and a speech given by George Massey in 1948 ("Why the Lower Fraser River Crossing Improvement Association was formed").

Lower Fraser River Crossing Improvement Association
Robert Sutcliffe collection
Fonds · [19--?]

The collection consists of photographs and prints of sailing ships of the 19th and early 20th century.

Robert Warren Kelly fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1900]-1905

The fonds consists of photographs of scenes and railroad activity in the Selkirk Mountains and at Glacier and Rogers Pass.

Kelly, Robert Warren
CA LCM MSS 227 · Fonds · 1912

The collection consists of a 1912 petition to Langley Municipality regarding street lights and other improvements in Fort Langley, B.C., possibly sponsored by the Fort Langley Board of Trade's Transport Committee.

CA LCM MSS 50 · Fonds · 1915, [1971]

The collection consists of a timetable for the Canadian Northern Pacific Railway, Port Mann to Hope, from 1915, a copy of an article from an English newspaper on the launch of its bonds by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1871 [1971], and an undated list of railroads which ran through Langley, B.C., at one time.

Fonds · 1898-2003 and [n.d.]

The collection consists of a combination of materials relating to the Union Steamship Company of British Columbia that has been collected over the years by the Vancouver Maritime Museum as well as documents that have been donated to the museum by Gerald Rushton, author of two books on the company titled Whistle Up the Inlet and Echoes of the Whistle; Arthur Twigg, author of the book Union Steamship Remembered; Harold Cecil Biles, former employee; and James Richard Southworth, former Marine Constable. The collection includes financial reports, maps, schedule notes, special operating circulars, company memos, sailing guides, menus, brochures, research notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, manuscripts, assorted ephemera, photographs and audio cassettes. The collection is arranged in 8 series: Administrative; General files; Articles, clippings, and scrapbooks; Echoes of the Whistle book; Whistle Up the Inlet book; Union Steamships Remembered book; Photographs; and Audio-visual.

CA FTST MS 19 · Fonds · 1896

The fonds consists of a diary/logbook recording weather, temperature, water levels, mail delivery, stage arrivals, and steamboat arrivals for 1896.

Upper Columbia Navigation and Tramway Company
Fonds · 1828-1990, predominant 1898-1960

The Vancouver Maritime Museum Archives collection consists of archival records donated to the Vancouver Maritime Museum from a wide variety of sources over a period of fifty years since the museum opened. Some of the archival records were originally processed and filed as the Library "ephemera" collection. They have since been removed from the Library database and processed as part of this collection.;The collection consists of correspondence; merchant service and naval certificates; reports and research notes; journals, diaries and logbooks; ledgers; vessel construction plans; photographs and negatives; newsletters, and oral histories recorded on DVDs and audiocassette tapes.

CA EDM 993-87-10 · Fonds · 1939-1940

The fonds consists of a ledger with records of electricity consumed by Grindrod and Enderby residents.

West Canadian Hydro Electric Corporation
CA KMA 63.110 · Fonds · 1902-1924

The fonds consists of daybook, journal and waybills of the company.

William B. Bailey and Company
William T. Rutherford fonds
CA EMA V986.4;V986.9;986.14;986.18;987.6 · Fonds · [ca. 1922]-1966

The fonds consists of photographs depicting scenes of Esquimalt and the Thoburn Garage. Fonds includes a certificate and ephemera.

Rutherford, William T.
Yarrows Limited fonds
Fonds · 1914-1946

The fonds consists of workbooks and other papers (1929-1942) including those relating to work on the vessels William J. Stewart, Motor Princess, and HMCS Nootka. Fonds also includes alphabetical list of jobs done 1932-1946, estimate workbooks covering years 1914-1944; documents and estimates relating to HMCS Nootka, 1938; blueprint of Esquimalt Harbour (Constance Cove), ca. 1915; and specification sheets. Fonds includes plans for naval vessels (Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy), steamers, cruise ships, ferries, barges, lifeboats, and tankers. Fonds includes photographs of Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy ships, Yarrows displays and float, visits to the Yard by dignitaries, and designs for certain parts of vessels.

Yarrows Limited
Fonds · 1918-1954

The fonds consists of records of the Alberni Pacific Lumber Company and its subsidiary, the Alberni Pacific Transport Company including general operating ledgers (1918-1927), sales ledgers (1922-1931), rail and cargo shipment ledgers (1939-1949), and U.S. rail shipments ledger (1941-1954).

Alberni Pacific Lumber Company
Collection · [ca. 1880-1920]

The collection consists of photographs of steamships serving the lower Fraser River between New Westminster and Hope.

B. Harrison collection
CA MMB L1199;L1200 · Fonds · 1932-1935

The collection consists of engine log book for Curtiss Challenger (1933-1935) and log book for the flying boat Detroit Sea Rover E-2 (1932-1935).

CA KMA 64.50 · Fonds · 1948-1949

The fonds consists of a daily log for the years 1948 and 1949.

British Columbia Power Commission. Barriere Hydro Electric Plant
Bert Leaning fonds
CA LMA MS 54 · Fonds · 1910-1960

Fonds consists of 5 albums. Includes photographs of many of the job sites that Bert surveyed for the railway, 1910 and 1911. Also includes photographs of self and friend, J.B. Brown, another surveyor; surveyor crews, Lytton old-timers, and World War I veterans.

Leaning, Bert
Canora fonds
CA MMB L2552a-d;L980.92.1-2;P4277 · Fonds · 1919, 1931-1938

The fonds consists of a logbook for the Canora (1919), deck logbooks (1937-1938), certificates of inspection (1931,1937,1938), and a photograph of the vessel.

Canora (Ship)