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This series consists of 125 pages of typescript copies of correspondence. The pages are numbered 98-223, and the location of pages 1-97 is unknown. The originals were created between 1858 and 1861. The correspondence is between various members of the British Admiralty, or between the Admiralty and government officials from the colony of Vancouver Island.

The correspondence relates to topics such as: the construction of the Esquimalt navy base, powder magazine and lighthouses on Southern Vancouver Island; the deployment of Royal Marines, Royal Engineers, ships and gun boats to and around Vancouver Island; fights between various First Nations groups and conflicts between Indigenous Peoples and settlers at Victoria, Nanaimo, Fort Rupert [Port Hardy] and Haida Gwaii.

The series consists of a photograph album, probably created around 1925, by Major Harold Brown of the Union Steamship Company. The album contains 250 black and white prints of various ships, many of them Union Steamship Company ships. The names of the ships have been written directly on most of the prints, although some remain unidentified.

Minutes of the Board of Trustees' meetings, 1966-1970 (incomplete); financial records, 1966-1970; lists of officers, committees and members; memo on future operations, no date; copy of the Bulletin, September 1966.

Transferred from the Legislative Library, 1977.

The series consists of dossiers on ships of the Royal Navy which served on the Pacific Station (and those visiting prior to 1837). The research was commissioned by the Maritime Museum of B.C. and conducted by Admiral P.W. Brock in Britain under a grant from the Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation. A letter from the director of the Maritime Museum, filed with the dossiers, outlines the project. There is also a key to symbols and a list of ships described.

Albert (H.M. Ship), America (H.M. Ship), Amethyst (H.M. Ship), Amphitrite (H.M. Ship), Asia (H.M. Ship), Bacchante (H.M. Ship), Blossom (H.M. Ship), Boxer (H.M. Ship), Brisk (H.M. Ship), Calypso (H.M. Ship), Cameleon (H.M. Ship), Champion (H.M. Ship), Chanticleer (H.M. Ship), Charybdis (H.M. Ship), Chatham (H.M. Ship), Clio (H.M. Ship), Cockatrice (H.M. Ship), Columbine (H.M. Ship), Constance (H.M. Ship), Cormorant (H.M. Ship), Daedalus (H.M. Ship), Daphne (H.M. Ship), Devastation (H.M. Ship), Dido (H.M. Ship), Discovery (H.M. Ship--1776-1797), Discovery (H.M. Ship--1789-1834), Driver (H.M. Ship), Endymion (H.M. Ship), Fisgard (H.M. Ship, 1905-1983), Forward (H.M. Gun Boat), Ganges (H.M. Ship), Gorgon (H.M. Ship), Grafton (H.M. Ship), Grappler (H.M.S. Gun Boat), Havannah (H.M. Ship), Herald (H.M. Ship), Imongene (H.M. Ship), Inconstant (H.M. Ship), Liffey (H.M. Ship), Liverpool (H.M. Ship), Magicienne (H.M. Ship), Malacca (H.M. Ship), Pandora (H.M. Ship), Pearl (H.M. Ship), Peterel (H.M. Ship), Phoebe (H.M. Ship), Pique (H.M. Ship), Plover (H.M. Ship), Portland (H.M. Ship), President (H.M. Ship), Providence (H.M. Ship), Pylades (H.M. Ship), Racoon (H.M. Ship), Rainbow (H.M. Ship), Reindeer (H.M. Ship), Resolution (H.M. Ship), Ringdove (H.M. Ship), Rocket (H.M. Ship), Royal Navy in British Columbia, Samarang (H.M. Ship), Satellite (H.M. Ship), Scout (H.M. Ship), Scylla (H.M. Ship), Shearwater (H.M. Ship), Sparrowhawk (H.M. Ship), Starling (H.M. Ship), Sulphur (H.M. Ship), Sutlej (H.M. Ship), Swift (H.M. Ship), Tartar (H.M. Ship), Topaz (H.M. Ship), Torpedo boat, 39, Torpedo boat, 40, Tribune (H.M. Ship), Trincomalee (H.M. Ship), Virago (H.M. Ship--1842-1879), Virago (H.M. Ship--1895-1919), Vixen (H.M. Ship), Zealous (H.M. Ship).