The fonds consists of textual records from business transactions at BC Packers Sunnyside Cannery between 1949 and 1976. These include receipts, coupon books from BC Packers Ltd., Nelson Bros. Fisheries Ltd., and J.H. Todd & Sons Ltd. Also includes packer sheets, fishermen's weekly statements, journal vouchers, invoices, forms, and correspondence of various fishermen at Sunnyside.

The fonds consists of documents, maps, and photographs related to the time Clifford McInnis spent in Prince Rupert and Port Edward employed by the United States Army during the Second World War.

The fonds consists of photographs and textual records during the Second World War in Prince Rupert. It includes 73 photographs (1943-1945) of scenes in Port Edward, Prince Rupert, and the surrounding areas, Hagwilget Canyon, , Khatada Lake, and Chicamon Glacier. US Army scenes include an aerial view of Acropolis Hill, Eugene with a bear cub, post theatre, barracks, the day room, a Christmas Party (1944), the administration office, chapels at Port Edward and Prince Rupert, field house, reveille, mail call, U.S. Army Post Softball Team (1943-45), army PX, Military Personnel Office (1945), basketball games, dances, V-J Day parade and speeches at city hall, USO Shows, Ingrid Bergman at USO show. There is also a photograph of Eugene salmon fishing near Port Edward and typed lyrics to a song "Don't Ship Me Out" dedicated to the men of APO 997.

The fonds consists of items that belonged to Reginald Harold Greaves when he was living and working near Prince Rupert. It includes photographs of Port Edward town site, Falls River and dam construction, Port Essington, Brown's Mill, and travel through the Rockies. It also includes correspondence, postcards, pamphlets about Port Edward and Prince Rupert, maps of Port Edward, Prince Rupert, maps of water powers in Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan, blueprints of the Prince Rupert Hydro Electric Company Falls River Develt, proposed power plants and transmission lines, and power house Ambursen dam and pipeline.

The fonds consists of records from the United States Army in Prince Rupert during the Second World War. It includes a souvenir booklet from 1945 entitled Prince Rupert Sub-Port of Embarkation, a 1945 American Officers' Roster, Muskeg News from the Corp of Engineers A.P.O. 997, The Daily Acropolis News, Port Post, a Telephone Directory for U.S. Army Prince Rupert and Port Edward, and ephemera.

The collection consists of a photo album that contains photographs of military personnel. Also included are postcards sent to Arlene Russell, newspaper clippings, and military artifacts such as badges, pins, and Second World War artifacts.

The fonds consists of photographs, slides, negatives, maps, and textual records created and gathered by Gladys Young Blyth. These contain local scenes such as lighthouses, totem poles, Seafest activities, fish boats, crab traps, North Pacific Cannery, Kwinitsa Station, and the seaplane base at Seal Cove. The maps and sketches are of Kitselas, Port Essington, Union Passage and Tuwartz Inlet, Otter Passage to Bonilla Island, Work Channel, and a copy of the plan of the Kit-Kah-Tla Indian Reserves Coast District, 1891-1892. Her reference notes refer to the Hudson's Bay Company, First Nations, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, the pictograph at Tyee, and the net building industry.

The fonds consists of photographs taken when Fred Sharpe taught at Inverness School, 1934-1937, showing the students and teachers, the first and second school buildings he taught in, interior shots of the classroom, and Inverness Cannery. It also includes a cassette tape of Fred's memories of living and teaching in Inverness.

The fonds consists of student registers (1965-1985) for Port Edward School.

The fonds consists of images from Brian Mycroft's aerial photography of Prince Rupert and the surrounding areas. It includes scenes such as Ridley Terminals, Prince Rupert Grain, Fairview Terminal, Prince Rupert's harbour, fish farms, large ships, Rivtow, the industrial park, B.C. Ferries, North Pacific Cannery Village, Okabe Shipyards, and the Village of Port Edward.