The fonds primarily consists of records created by George Cramb as an employee of Yarrows Ltd, including personal and business correspondence, receipts, financial records, a diary (1961), a booklet containing ship information, blueprints, drawings, and photographs of ship repairs. Fonds also includes certificates and miscellaneous papers of Lillian Mary Cramb, and photographs of the Cramb family.

Fonds consists of textual records and photographs of the Emery family in Esquimalt including, but not limited to: Esquimalt scenes, Lampson St. School class photos, and an Army pay book. Fonds also includes family trees that date back to 1773, and the diary of Samuel Emery's voyage (1893) across the Atlantic and eventual settlement in the Port Renfrew area.