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Our Collections
| Books | Magazines | Charts | Art & Photographs | Plans & Various | Models | Surplus |
Given the complexities of indexing, the following extracts from our database are only very partial. Please also see separately the books, magazines, etc that are for exchange or sale as duplicates or surplus to our requirements. Enquiries about our holdings are welcome. [The archive currently holds over twenty thousand titles on various broad aspects of maritime history and conservation, marine research and nautical education; ten thousand books on associated aviation and military matters; and a further six thousand covering associated subjects including engineering, economics and politics, etc.]
Our online catalogue (OPAC) is available here.
The W. M. "Sandy" McPherson Collection and a short biography. [sailing, Canadiana]
The Ben Ackerman Collection and a short biography. [Arctic, diving]
The Joseph Lucas Collection and a short biography. [marine biology]
Stormy Weather Collection:
This collection is the Society's largest. Categories include:
1812, archeology, arctic, art, astronomy, biography, biography auto, biography junior, biology marine, calender, canadiana, canoes, cartography, cassette, catalogue, charts, communications, cookbooks, design, design models, design rigging, design steam, discovery, discovery history, discovery trade, diving, ecology, economics, ethnology, exploration, fiction, fiction and verse, fiction junior, fisheries, great lakes, guide, history, history WWI, history WWII, hudson, humour, law, lifeboats, lighthouse, local, merchant, merchant sail, merchant steam, meteorology, military, model, navigation, navy, navy ACW, navy art, navy RCN, navy RN, navy US, nelson, non-maritime, oceanography, piracy, reference, seafarers collection, seamanship, shanties, shipwreck, surplus, verse, whaling, yacht, yacht biography, yacht club, yacht cruising, yacht design, yacht racing.
The following extracts represent some subjects / authors taken from our master database. Updating these web-based lists is unfortunately complex and lengthy, so they should not be considered complete in any manner.
Yachting:
More references to naval matters may be found in:
The Doctor Herbert Lee Gray collection - late C19th, early C20th pholisophy and comparative religion. Unpublished manuscripts including some of his travels to China and Cuba, and his sermons.
The Ross Richardson aeronautical collection - marine, naval, military and civilian aviation, including history, design, operations and much more. The cataloguing is as yet incomplete (January 2013) but books can be made available to visitors, pending the completion of our second floor expansion.
The Mauthe collection - mostly manuscript documents, relating to 19th century (some early 20th) shipping on the Great Lakes. Primary areas of interest are Customs House documentation, insurance and legal matters, shipping losses and the relationship of shipping with rail terminals in Great Lakes ports.
The Ladies' Collection
The HMS Victory and Nelson collection
HMS Victory and Nelson
The Stephen R. de Chene Collection and a short biography.General and Stormy Weather collection:
Canadian Historical Review - Volume 1 (1920) to the present day
Chasse-Marée - complete collection - including new publications, reprints and artwork
The Naval Chronicle (1799-1819) - complete set
Oceans Magazine - complete collection
Seahorse - the official magazine of the Royal Ocean Racing Club
Seaport - the magazine of South Street Seaport
[The Society holds some 250,000 journals [ more complete list], magazines, periodicals etc. Others, not listed above include Boat Building, Boat International, Canadian Tall Ships, Classic Yacht Regatta (Antigua, Pamphlets), Der Yacht, Harpers, Latitudes and Attitudes, Life Boat, Lifeboat, Light House, Maritime Policy and Management, Model Boats, Model Engineer, Motor Boating (and Sailing), Naval Architect, Neptune, Neptune-nautisme, Ocean Navigator, Ocean Voyager, Polar Record, Porthole, Practical Sailor, Professional Mariner, Professional Navigator, Seafarers, Ship and Boat International, Ships And Ship Models, Ships in Scale, Ships Monthly, Sports Afield, Tallships, The Yacht, Voiles et Voiliers, Warship Technology, Yachting Monthly, Yachts And Yachting]
Over 1,500 marine charts, guides and various maps. Our "Summer Student 2002" project is to catalogue these resources.
HMS Victory, the Cutty Sark, HMCS Demorestville - RCN Flower Class, Bluenose, Bluenose II, Helen M. McAllister, Foundation Franklin, U-boat, ships in bottles, many half models, etc
J.M.W. Turner, Jean-Jérôme Baugean, Frank Braynard, John Spurling, Nicholas Hornyansky, Tom Manning, F. Leo Hunter, Yves Berubé, David MacIntosh, John Crittenden, Henri Rivière, Robert James Pailthorpe, R.D. Wilson, P. Sigal, Currier and Ives, etc. Please enquireOur collection of art references and catalogues is extensive.
Photographs, etc
The Raymond McIntosh Collection, Palisander Collection, Stormy Weather Collection, General Collection, various
Ship's Plans, yacht designs and drawings, etc
Many designers, naval architects and research units are represented here (Underhill, Sparkman & Stephens, Alan Pape, P. Bolger, etc. etc. A partial listing is avaialble.
De-accessioned, surplus and items that may be released for exchange or sale.
Pages are continually being added and updated. We regret the delay if a Collection is not "clickable".
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