The collection consists of photographs of the ship "Dinamac," the Duffus family home, Thomas McMeekin & Sons business, Skeena River scenes, parades, and planes at Seal Cove.

The fonds consists of charter and minutes (1929-1937) of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railroad Employees Skeena Division No. 154 and minutes (1961-1965), reports, correspondence, policy statements, and seniority lists of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers Local 154. Some of the correspondence deals with grievances. Included is a 1920 charter of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railroad Employees "Kaien" Division No. 154.

The fonds consists of records from the Canadian National Railways. It includes a CNR Employees' Medical Aid Association of B.C. Constitution and By-Laws handbook (1937), The CNR in 1952 a booklet form Annual Report, five Authorized Boiler Pressures and Haulage Rates for Locomotives charts (1937, 1941, 1944, 1948 and 1951), and six architectural drawings consisting of blueprints from the CNR and GTP for the Rupert townsite (191-), Station building at Endako and trackage (1922), Station surveys for Pacific (1928) and Smithers (1928), Prince Rupert easterly track before fencing Mile 200 to 240 (1914), McBride (1928), Mile 340 to 360 Telkwa to Endako (1915), Mile 100 to 120 with 3 tunnels showing Vanarsdol, Phillips Creek, Usk and Hardscrabble Creek (1914), and a blueprint of Prince Rupert's waterfront showing CNR terminals with markings in red and yellow that was used for the Municipal Act and CN Railway appeal of Assessment (1927).

The fonds consists of annual and departmental reports (1910-1916,1932, 1942-44, 1949), building inspector's diary (1913), a plan book from the Engineering Dept. from 1911- 1922 showing City datum, elevations, bench marks, plans, and blueprints. Includes correspondence from engineer F.S. Clements, a 1910 fire insurance plan, a 1914 assessment roll, wage records for the city (1921-1922, 1928-1929), a balance sheet for December 1911, and records relating to auction sales in 1909. Includes Water Supply and Electric System (Woodworth Lake) from 1911, an agreement between the Prince Rupert Hydro Electric Company Limited and the City of Prince Rupert from 1913, sewer system reports (1912), a garbage collection report (1947), voters lists, building permits (1949-1976), blueprints and plans relating to wartime housing, Fairview Cemetery, a plan of naval buildings (1943), architectural records (blueprints and plans) relating to the activities of the Canadian National Railways (in particular, the Prince Rupert Dry Dock), records of construction projects in Prince Rupert, Centennial Park plans, and a Prince Rupert Centennial Library drawing. The fonds also includes records of the local Royal Canadian Mounted Police (1965-1967), an economic development report (1963), financial statements, Freedom of the City certificate for William B. Hick, an Italo Canadian Club certificate from 1961, and the Museum of Northern BC constitution and bylaws (1973). Includes photographs of the first city council in March 1910, City Hall on Fulton Street, aldermen, drydock site, Grand Trunk Pacific construction, sternwheeler "Hazelton" the yacht club's first boat house, fire truck and firemen, waterworks and road construction, Duke of Connaught, Charles M. Hays, Mayor Sam Newton, Alderman G.W. Kerr, L. Bullock-Webster, T.R. Maitland, D.W. Morrisey, H. Douglas, Dr. W. B. Clayton, John Dybhaven, Booth School, aerial views, Fairview Terminal, waterfront, Vickersville, first passenger train, Methodist Church, government buildings, ships, GTP Hotel, Totem Park, Canadian Fish & Cold Storage, Seal Cove Sawmill, industrial site, Mayor Harry Daggett, and Queen Charlotte City council members from 2006 and 2009.

The collection consists of 9 photographs of Prince Rupert ca. 1920s and the S.S. Prince Rupert in the harbour

The fonds consists of personal and professional records from the Collins family. It includes family photographs and negatives taken in Prince Rupert, England, Alaska, and Panama. There are also photographs of soliders taken during the Second World War in Japan, a photograph of the cargo ship Earlscourt Park which was built in 1944 at the Prince Rupert Drydock, and Thomas W. senior on a fishing trip with Bing Crosby. There are 105 architectural drawings including blueprints, plans, and maps pertaining to the drydock in Prince Rupert and the City of Prince Rupert's engineering department. Personal documents for Thomas W. Sr. include correspondence (1956), postcards addressed to Thomas and Agnes (1910, 1920, 1939, 1952), a wedding invitation, statement of service with CNR at the drydock (1921- 1939), Canadian Gangway Pass (1963), Canadian Pacific Railway Steamship Line card (1919), unemployment insurance commission card (1943), Active Service Book - Canadian Pay (1918), Indenture to Apprentice (1901), Canadian Expeditionary Force Discharge Certificate (1919), a Sick Furlough form and a fortnightly time book for payments made to dock employees with lists of names and payments pencilled in. Documents for Jack include certificates for perfect attendance at Sunday School (1930) and the Introductory Examination for the Toronto Conservatory of Music (1934), correspondence including three hand-written letters; two written to his father in 1963 and one regarding the Queen Charlotte Canners Ltd. (1950), and a postcard (1939). Also includes an Unemployment Insurance Commission form (1963) Kincolith Preceptory No. 59 Freemason's constitution and Bylaws, a notice of motion, Masonic ephemera, an autograph book (1934), and a Wartime Merchant Shipping Limited Shipyard Terms booklet. Documents for Thomas W. Jr. include a postcard, 3 Booth Memorial High School Student Association cards (1938, 1940-42), a War Dept. report at the Sub-Port in Prince Rupert (1944), and a handwritten diary of his time served on the U.S.S. destroyers McKean and Henry W. Tucker from 1945 to 1946. The diary ends on October 31, 1946 where he notes that he has been away for two years.

The fonds consists of photographs taken by the Currie family. It includes photos of family and friends, the tugboat "C.R.C.," and scenes in the Prince Rupert area.

The fonds consists of both black and white and colour photographs with 2 photograph albums taken by Don Hamilton during the 1940s and 1950s when he worked in various fish plants in British Columbia. They include photographs of operations at Carlisle, Bones Bay, and Butedale canneries. There are some photographs depicting family and friends, Claire Salter, Norman Christenson, Charles McMillan, William Malcom, and Sylvester Anthony MacDonald in a way of life enjoyed by people living at the canneries. There are also photographs of the RCAF MTB Rescue Boat M-234, five vessels named Mary K, Venture, Sambo Point, Coquitlam, and Cape Calvert, as well as helicopters and float planes used for a rescue operation when a U.S. Bomber crew ditched on Princess Royal Island in the 1950s (Broken Arrow). Also includes a hand painted photograph of a paddle wheeler, and photographs of Vancouver.

The collection consists of 9 photographs and sheet music for The Imperial Native March for piano composed by Job Nelson of Metlakatla, B.C. published in 1907. The photographs include a view of 10th Avenue East and Bacon Street looking towards Prince Rupert's downtown, circa 1920s, the Kaiwo Maru docked at Prince Rupert, the Sea Cadet Band in Comox in 1943, people at Salt Lakes in 1912, the Prince Rupert at the GTP dock, the Hazelton graveyard and the bridge near Hazelton.

The collection consists of 7 photographs in Prince Rupert (1958-1967). It includes the Kaiwo Maru at the Ocean Dock (1967), the HMCS Ontario at the Grain Elevator and in Chatham Sound (1958), a DC6 at Prince Rupert Airport (1964), an oil rig drilling for hydro carbons in Hecate Strait (1968), the Queen of Prince Rupert under construction at the Victoria Machinery Depot yard, Ogden Point, Victoria (1965) and the welcoming celebration in Prince Rupert for arrival of Queen of Prince Rupert (1966).