Fonds comprises personal and professional correspondence and papers relating to the schooners Rowena (1903-1907); Lizzie Rich (1905), Stella Maud (1907-1910) and the Carrie C. Ward, including registers, bills, and ship inventories.

Collection consists of over 500 photographs of ships. Collection also contains French-language clippings: Liste des newspages dans le Monde d'Apres Le Journal Courrier De Londres et Gazette de la Grand Bretagne 1804-1807; Registre des Navires Canadienne et Etrangers Coules Derrand La Guerre 1939-1945; Registre notes des Croisieres des U Boot Allemandes Guerre 1939-1945.

Cargo book of the schooner Beth, March 22, 1881 - September 4, 1885

Fonds consists of letters written to Benjamin H. Doane, the bulk of them being from Arthur Doane, containing information on ships.

Fonds contains the personal and professional records of four generations of the Bigelow family of Nova Scotia. It includes correspondence, legal and financial documents, diaries and memoirs, and photographs that document primarily the family's shipbuilding activities as well as the genealogical interests of John Robert Bigelow.

Certificates of discharge (1880-1888) indicate Herbert MacDougall's rise in status from serving as an O.S. (Ordinary Seaman) at age 18, to Mate at age 26.

Fonds comprises land deeds, wills and other legal documents, as well as charter agreements for the schooner Mary and a bill of sale for the Candid.

business and personal records of David and James B. Davison. The majority of the records are in relation to the general store and shipyard operated by the brothers. These consist of ledgers, accounts, receipts, promissary notes, contracts and correspondence. The correspondence includes letters regarding cargo, sale of vessels, political events in Halifax and some personal correspondence with family and friends. Also included are records regarding the settling of David Davison's estate.

This fonds contains two letterbooks of Summerside commission merchant David Montgomery for the period 1879 to 1886. These manuscript volumes contain copies of outgoing letters and copies of a few incoming letters. The handwritten transcripts of these letters detail Mr. Montgomery's business dealings, primarily regarding payments and collections. The letterbooks also contain correspondence to the captains of his ships, and insight into the building of his brigantine the "Louis Montgomery". The "Louis Montgomery" was frozen in Summerside Harbour in late 1880 and was again frozen in the ice at Georgetown Harbour in January 1881. A 5 January 1881 letter entry describes the burning of the ship "Lizzie and Emma" on 25 September 1880.

Fonds consists of cash book for various voyages and one photograph of the vessel.