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C.H. Brown fonds
CA MMB P985.1101-15;985.28.1-2 · Fonds · 1917-1943

The fonds consists of Brown's certificates of service and photographs of ships, officers, parties, skills, and presentation to Brown of his O.B.E.

Brown, Charles Henry
Frank E. Unwin fonds
CA MMB P985.8.1-8 · Fonds · [ca. 1950-1970]

The fonds consists of photographs of pilot boats, tugs, the Bounty (replica), log booms, and explosion at Ripple Rocks and ephemera.

Unwin, Frank E.
Richard Ronald Burns fonds
CA MMB P988.12.1 · Fonds · [ca. 1913]

The fonds consists of a photographic record of a journey up the B.C. coast by steamer by Ronald Burns and family.

Burns, Richard Ronald
Edward Peter De Cunha fonds
CA MMB P988.138.1 · Fonds · [ca. 1940-1970]

The fonds consists of certificates, operator's licences, cards of merchant navy defence courses taken, letters of reference and general correspondence relating to shipping. Two folders include maps of Thames River and Rotterdam Harbour with Port Authority notes. Fonds includes de Cunha's file relating to meteorology, printed material and photographs of Cunha's personal life and marine career.

De Cunha, Edward Peter, 1922-
Clifford Fenton fonds
CA MMB P988.43.1-18;988.43.19-22 · Fonds · 1939

The fonds consists of photographs of the Royal Visit of 1939 and newsclippings and ephemera relating to the Canadian Pacific ferries and the Royal Visit.

Fenton, Clifford
Bullen family fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1880-1913]

The fonds consists of photographs of salvage operations (1906-1910) carried out by the Bullen Dockyard (B.C. Marine Railway Company), of the first vessels salvaged by Yarrows Limited, of other ships and salvage vessels, of Admiral Sir John E. Commerell, and of the SS Princess Louise on the Fraser River (1899).

Bullen (family)
Charles A. Prosser fonds
Fonds · 1950-1980

The fonds consists of photographs of HMCS Oriole including ceremonies and group photographs and a folder containing information sheets on the HMCS Oriole.

Prosser, Charles A.
E.A. MacFayden fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1900-1968]

The fonds consists of documents pertaining to gunnery notes from World War II, with an emphasis on the use of gas, smoke screening and chemical warfare; ephemera; and photographs of various naval scenes and activities.

MacFayden, Edward A., 1909-
E. Gerrard fonds
Fonds · [19--]

The fonds consists of photographs largely of Canadian Pacific ships and clippings and ephemera relating to Canadian Pacific maritime activities.

Gerrard, E.
James Denoon Laurie fonds
Fonds · 1914-1958

The fonds consists of naval appointments and orders, certificates, correspondence, pension payments and adjustments, and mementos. Fonds includes photographs of various naval ship and a log book entered by Laurie as midshipman on the HMCS Niobe, 1914.

Laurie, James Denoon
John P. Dawson fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1947-1964]

The fonds consists of personal papers of Capt. Dawson's including telegrams, telexes, commissioning cards, menus and invitations. Volumes include standing orders for HMCS Skeena, a scrapbook, and night order books for HMCS Swansea. Photographs are of HMCS Skeena and other HMC ships. Fonds includes U.S. Coast Survey charts of the California coast.

Dawson, John P.T.
Nixon family fonds
Fonds · 1915-1946

The fonds consists of seaman's workbook, referring to the ship Venture; C.P. Nixon's notebook; HMCS St. Laurent Captain's night order book (1939-1941) and First Lieutenant's night order book (1940-1942); HMCS Crescent Captain's night order book; appointment notice to E.A.E. Nixon to HMCS Diana (1915); ship's magazines and newsletters; and photographs of HM and HMC ships and sports activities at the Royal Naval College of Canada.

Nixon (family)
Fonds · [ca. 1891-19--?]

The fonds consists of plans of the Empresses of Japan, China and India, watercolour painting of SS Amur, and photographs of Canadian Pacific ships.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company
G.H. Davidson fonds
Fonds · 1954

The fonds consists of Commander Davidson's temporary memorandum file, 1954.

Davidson, G.H.
Edmund Rollo Mainguy fonds
Fonds · 1939-1970

The fonds consists of photographs of Royal Canadian Navy vessels, primarily from World War II, Royal Canadian Navy officers, and HMC ships. Fonds includes ephemera including articles written by fellow naval officers.

Mainguy, Edmund Rollo
Patrick Willet Brock fonds
Fonds · 1966-1967

The fonds consists of correspondence, general research notes, and dossiers on individual Royal Navy ships that spent some of their time serving on the Pacific Station. Fonds includes collected photographs of Royal Navy ships and ships' guns.

Brock, Patrick Willet
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
C.H. Little fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1940-1960]

The fonds consists of photographs, primarily of HMC ships, Canadian Government ships, and naval reviews, and ephemera relating to Royal Canadian Navy activities.

Little, C.H.
Francis E. Percy Haigh fonds
Fonds · 1899-1902

The fonds consists of Haigh's journal and remark book, containing information and ephemera relating to HMS Warspite (1899-1902); handwritten script of a play written by the Gunroom officers of HMS Warspite and coauthored by F.E.P. Haigh (performed in 1901); and photographs of places and events in the Royal Navy Pacific Station, including views of Valparaiso, Guatemala, Vancouver and Comox, as well as emphasis on Esquimalt and Victoria.

Haigh, Francis E. Percy
Fonds · [ca. 1900]-1986

The collection consists of ship's plans predominantly of vessels on the West Coast of Canada, including ships constructed and repaired at shipyards of Yarrows Limited (Esquimalt, B.C.) and the Victoria Machinery Depot. Many of the plans were received from these two firms. The collection includes plans of Canadian Pacific Princess and Empress ships.

Victor Gabriel Brodeur fonds
Fonds · 1906-1915, 1940

The fonds consists of Brodeur's photographs including those of the CGS Arctic leaving Quebec City for the Arctic (1906), the Esquimalt dockyard and the Admiral's House in Esquimalt.

Brodeur, Victor Gabriel
C.J. Dillon fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1932-1967]

The fonds consists of photographs of naval activity and ships in Esquimalt and area and reference material (newsclippings and booklet) relating to the shelling of Estevan lighthouse, the torpedoing of a ship by a Japanese submarine, and the arrival of the Queen Elizabeth at Esquimalt Graving Dock.

Dillon, C.J.
Fonds · 1860, [ca. 1934-1952]

The fonds consists of log books from the engine room and Chief Engineers log for the CGS Estevan (1934,1935,1941,1942,1951-1952), photographs of lifeboats, lighthouses, Canadian Coast Guard vessels, life stations, and beacons, and a plan (1860) for the Race Rock Lighthouse.

Canada. Dept. of Transport
Frederick Ernest Grubb fonds
Fonds · 1928-1973

The fonds consists of papers referring to procedural details for officers and ratings, chiefly 1943; gunnery notebook for naval cadets, 1928-1929; papers on Navy Week and naval ceremony at B.C.'s Centennial (1958); ephemera relating to the Royal Canadian Navy; photographs of models, HMC ships, and Japanese training ships; and charts of the British Columbia coast.

Grubb, Frederick Ernest