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Fonds consists of the press release for Andrew B. Cox’s book, “Our Spirit Unbroken: Memoirs of a Prisoner of War”, published by Brucedale Press in 1999 and of a newspaper clipping from the Shoreline Beacon discussing the release of Cox’s book. Fonds also includes the transcript of a radio interview conducted with Andrew Cox during which he discusses the release of his book, what led him to join the Royal Air Force (RAF), the breakout of the Second World War, some of his flying experiences with the Hampden bombers, his experience as a prisoner of war, and the importance of celebrating Remembrance Day.

Fonds consists of correspondence between team members of the Canadian Naval Air Technical History (CNATH) project, as well as with editors, publishers, marketing and sales coordinators, etc. Also contains photographs, individual's anecdotes, minutes of Board meetings, background papers, manuscript drafts, interleaf drafts and final drafts, computer discs (Master Print files) and other material pertaining to the CNATH Book Project.

Fonds consists of seven photograph albums that contain colour and black and white photos of various retirement dinners held at the General Officers’ Mess for 1975-1990, and 1992-1994. Also includes two guest books signed by the retirees and guests of honour for 1975-1994. Includes one compact disk with 27 colour photographs from a 2005 retirement dinner and 27 high resolution copies. Also includes a plaque that is inside an upholstered case, and a framed gold relief both presented by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army to the mess.

Fonds consiste d’une recherche sur la communauté des religieuses du Très-Saint Sacrement (Mont Thabor) effectué par David Saint-Pierre. Il contient la transcription d’une entrevue avec Sœur Thérèse-Angès Berger, portant sur la création de la communauté et le rôle jouer par Sœur Thérèse-Angès Berger dans cette communauté, et son Livre d’Or, un article, deux rapports de conservation ainsi que deux cassettes (audio).

Fonds consists of files (1970-1980) pertaining to the CX-84 Tilt Wing V/STOL Aircraft used by Peter Charlton when he was CX-84 Tilt Wing V/STOL Project Manager and Director General Aerospace Engineering and Maintenance. There are also seven reports from the Royal Canadian Navy Experimental Squadron Ten concerning helicopter haul down and handling systems during the 1960s. Includes a report of a voyage to the Canadian Arctic by CCDG John A. Macdonald in 1969., a monograph by Charlton re Sea king helicopters and the RCN destroyers during 1962-1966, and copies of the "Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal". Also includes an autobiography and family history of the Charltons, 1 videocassette and 1 film reel regarding helicopters entitled "CHSS-2 Haul Down System", and 1 videocassette entitle "EH-101 Passing the Torch".

Fonds consists of reference files compiled by the Naval Historical Section during the 1950s and kept up-to-date until 1965-1966. Documents added after 1966 were added by staff at the Directorate of History, or later by the Directorate of History and Heritage, and, therefore, were not part of the original collection. Most of the documents cover the period of E.C. Russell's tenure as Naval Historian during 1952-1966, and also includes material collected by the first Naval Historian, Dr. Gilbert Norman Tucker, during the Second World War. The material documents the history of the Royal Canadian Navy from the First World War up to the 1960s, with the Second World War being the most covered.
In addition to individual files, there are also 38 series of files with finding aids. These include:

1. 1000 General Information - Subject Files
2. 1000-5 History and Activities of the Canadian Naval Service
3. 1000-100/2 Naval Board
4. 1000-100/3 Naval Staff
5. 1000-973 Torpedo Anti-Submarines
6. 1250 Combined Operations
7. 1320 Communications - Signals, Telegrams and Cables
8. 1440-5 Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) History (General)
9. 1440-6 Halifax, Nova Scotia
10. 1440-7 Esquimalt, British Columbia
11. 1440-166/25 Newfoundland
12. 1440-186 University Naval Training Division
13. 1480 Naval Intelligence - Soviet Union
14. 1480-157/100 Great Britain. Admiralty Naval Intelligence Division
15. 1612 Hydrography - Oceanography
16. 1650 Operations and Plans (Royal Canadian Navy)
17. 1650 U-boats (General)
18. 1650 U-boats (German)
19. 1650 U-boats (German) - Personnel (Prisoners of War)
20. 1650-DS U-boats - Daily States: HMC, HM and Allied Ships
21. 1650-1 U-boats - Naval lans and Policies
22. 1650-1 U-boats - Operations ans Plans (NATO)
23. 1650-239/187 Korean Operations
24. 1700-100/78-78A Naval Historical Section Administrative Files
25. 1700-100/219 Air Sqaudrons and Groups
26. 1700-905 Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
27. 1886 Current History Books
28. 4000-100/14 Service Personnel
29. 4531 Personnel Selection
30. 8000 Ships and Shipping
31. 8000-160 Canadian Minesweeping Squadrons
32. 8000-260 Canadian Escort Squadrons
33. 8280 Sydney Files
34. 8280 Convoys and Convoy Organization
35. 8280 Convoys Naval Messages
36. 8440 Escort Groups and Forces
37. 8700 Movements and Programmes - Warships
38. 8885 Staff Requirements

Fonds consists of a selection of photocopied records from the Diefenbaker Canada Centre Archives in Saskatoon. Isabel Campbell of the Naval History Team at the Directorate of History and Heritage selected key records to support the post war naval history project. The records are various documents describing John G. Diefenbaker’s life and career, especially in the late fifties and early sixties. It includes memoranda to the Prime Minister, correspondence with leaders of other states, military officers, ministers and the general public, messages prepared for the House of Commons, speeches, statements, reports of different meetings, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, correspondence and telegrams. This fonds reflects the important questions of the 1957-1963 period, especially on Canadian and international politics and defence issues during the Cold War. International affairs such as the Berlin Wall and Cuban Missile crises and the law of the sea, NATO, Canada-US relations and Canadian foreign affairs are also discussed in the fonds. With regards to Canadian defence, there are documents about emergency measures, equipment of the army, nuclear weapons and the Navy. There are also various documents on Canadian internal affairs.
The fonds is divided into eight series:
1- (VI) PMO Numbered series
2- (VII/A) General Reference series
3- (VIII) PMO Unnumbered Correspondence series
4- (IX/C) Second Leader of the Opposition General Correspondence series
5- (XII) Personal and Confidential series
6- (XIII) Reference 1940-1957 series
7- (XIV) Memoirs series
8- (XXIII) Cabinet Ministers’ Statements and Speeches series

Collection consists of material detailing the professional life of Air Marshall Wilfred Austin Curtis. It includes several biographies and summary of an interview with R.V. Dodds, F.J. Hatch, and Norman Hillmer. Also includes: service cards; awards and appointments; newspaper clippings and news releases; correspondence; extract from memorial book; and copy of itinerary of Mediterranean Theatre of War Visit. Also includes a published work by Glenn Curtis in 2004 and entitled "My Father: Wilfred Curtis Air Marshal Chancellor Human Being."

Fonds consists of research material and photographs pertaining to J. David Perkins’ research on submarines and other naval topics. Research topics include submarine classes, submarine ships, and Canadian submariners. Fonds includes correspondence, files copied from Library and Archives Canada and other archives, book excerpts, newsletters, newspaper articles, photographs, technical drawings, maps, and essays written by J. David Perkins. There are 9 series:
I. Research Papers
II. Biographical Files
III. Reports Relating to Ships and Ship Classes
IV. Newsletters, Articles and Newspapers
V. Essays
VI. Drawings, Photographs, Technical Drawings and Maps
VII. Correspondence
VIII. Miscellaneous
IX. Photograph Binders and Loose Photograph Sets

Fonds consists of 9 photographs pertaining to the Allied Forces landing in Normandy, France on 6 June 1944. Includes files on helicopters and the helicopter industry, military aviation, the attempt of the balloon Virgin Global Challenger to circumnavigate the globe and a report of the Hon. John Manley’as visit to Germany in 1999. There is also a file regarding projects and activities marking the 60th anniversary of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP).

Collection consists of files concerning merchant ships that sunk in Canadian waters during the Second World War. Files contain particulars of attacks on merchant ships (including details in regards to the ship and the conditions of the attack); any documents in regards to the sinking of the ship (diary of events, inquiries into the sinking, etc); transcripts of evidence created after the sinking; and other relevant documents in regards to the ship, its passengers, or the attack. Collection also includes miscellaneous documents used in research, including general information relating to sinkings and U-boats, extracts from war logs, rough notes and information on naval directories and their correspondence. Additionally, the collection contains a copy of Lisa Dillon's resme as welllas two of her compilations: List of RG 24 and 83-84/167 Accession File Titles" and "Naval Service Headquarters, 1939-1945: A Guide to Historical Sources and Notes on Personnel Organization".

Fonds consists of six files containing documents released to the media by the Director General Public Affairs on 17 January 1997 regarding the investigations into misconduct and poor performance by members of the unit of CANBAT 2 at Bakovici Hospital in Bosnia and Hercegovina and the mistreatment of Capt. Sandra Perron, Canada's first female infantry officer. Fonds also contains news clippings from Canadian, American and French newspapers describing the opening of the Juno Beach Centre in Normany, France; the burial service for the remains of three unknown Canadian soldiers found near the Passchendarle New British Cemetery in Belgium; and the ceremonies held to mark the 60th Anniversary of Dieppe. There is also a nine minute video cassette titled, "On Patrol for Canada - The Halifax Class Frigates" which introduces the Halifax Class of the Canadian Patrol Frigates.
There are three series:
I. Media Release Package
II. Newspaper Clippings
III. Video Cassette

Fonds consists copies of decisions of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Military Committee Standing Group during 1951-1956, as well as reproductions of finding aids for documents held at the NATO Archives in Brussels. Additionally, includes a NATO report on nuclear procedures, casualties and damage. There are 3 series:

1. NATO Military Committee Standing Group Decisions
2. NATO Archives Finding Aids
3. NATO Nuclear Casualty and Damage Assessment Report

Collection consists of research material on the history of the supplementary radio stations in Canada from 1925 to the 1970s.

Fond consists of photocopies of personal recollections of John Francis Dunn, newspaper articles, photographs, and various documents relating to the Allied Convoys that were a part of the Naval Service Operations in the Arctic Waters from 1941 to 1945, especially the winter of 1944-1945. There are newspaper articles and pertinent information relating to Allied ships that were sunk during there operations. There are also documents pertaining to the German U-boats that were in the area at this time, lists of specific submarines and their activities. Some information relating to the invasion of Normandy is also included, such as the signals used and the actions of the United States Coast Guards in this operation. Also included is some information concerning Dunn’s activities with the public service of New York City and some personal paraphernalia.

Fonds consists of Canadian Forces situation reports. They were messages that came to the Directorate of History (later the Directorate of History and Heritage (DHH)) through the chain of command. They provide an overview of what was happening that week in the Canadian Forces (CF) and on Canadian domestic, United Nations and NATO operations. Some of the major operations include:

Americas and Caribbean
Operation CAULDRON (Haiti; October 1993)
Operation FORWARD ACTION (Haiti; Oct 1993 to Sep 1994)
Operation MATCH (El Salvador; 1991 to 1994)
Operation VISION (Guatemala; 1997)

Africa
Operation CONSONANCE (Mozambique; 1992-1995)
Operation DELIVERANCE (Somalia; 1991-1993)
Operation ECLIPSE (Ethiopia and Eritrea; Nov 2000 to Jun 2001)
Operation LANCE (Uganda-Rwanda; 1993-1994)
Operation PASTEL (Angola; 1991-1995)
Operation PRUDENCE (Central African Republic; 1998-1999)
Operation PYTHON (Western Sahara; 1991-1994)

Europe, Balkan and the Mediterranean
Operation ALLIANCE (Bosnia & Herzegovina; 1995-1996)
Operation CAVALIER (Bosnia and Herzegovina; 1994)
Operation HARMONY (Croatia; 1995)
Operation KINETIC (Kosovo and the Republic of Macedonia; Jun 1999 to Jun 2000)
Operation PALLADIUM (Bosnia-Herzegovina; Dec 1995 to Dec 2004)
Operation Sharpguard (Naval blockade in Adriatic Sea ;1993-1996)

Southeast Asia
Operation Toucan (East Timor; Oct 1999 to Apr 2001

Southwest Asia and Middle East
Operation AUGMENTATION (Iraq in the Persian Gulf; 1999 to 2001)
Operation DANACA (Golan Heights; 1974 to 2006)

Domestic (Canada)
Operation ABACUS (Y2K preparation; 1999)
Operation ASSISTANCE (Red River Flood; 1997)
Operation PERSISTENCE (Swissair Flight 111; 1998)
Operation RECUPERATION (Ice Storm of 1998)

The reports also covered military exercises (national and international), assistance to the RCMP, emergencies (floods, forest fires, snowstorms, etc.) and maritime search and rescue operations. There are some folders pertaining to Operation Scotch (the Rwanda airlift) and Operation Delivereance (427 Squadron in Somalia and ALCE Nairobi).

Fonds consists of flight log, range chart, information sheet and a large map regarding Trip 599, the last flight for 426 Squadron from Shemya, Alaska to Haneda, Japan on 2 June 1954 during the Korean War.

Fonds consists of material which provides an overview of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United States concerns’ with the institution.

Fonds consists of material documenting the activities of the Board of Inquiry Croatia during 1999 to 2001. Includes transcripts of testimonies, lists of exhibits, final report and drafts, administrative and supporting documents and various other documents. There are 4 series:
I. Reports, Testimonies and Exhibits
II. Supporting Documents
III. Administrative and Reference Files
IV. Central Registry Files

Fonds consists of material documenting Rear Admiral Denis Richard Boyle’s naval career during 1971 to 1987. The following appointments are covered: Director Maritime Systems Engineering (1971-1972); Director Maritime Management Requirements (1972-1974); Director Maritime Engineering and Maintenance (1974-1975); Director Maritime Engineering Equipment.(1975-1978); Command Personnel and Training Officer (1979-1983); and Director General Recruiting Education and Training (1983-1986). Some of the major subjects include ships design, ships maintenance and repair, marine engineering, mechanical engineering, destroyers, Canadian patrol frigates, military education and electrical engineering. The fonds is arranged in chronological order by position and then in alphabetical order by file title for each position.