Shelter and Ship Restoration

Dates of Creation:

1950 – 2012

Physical Extent:

45 cm of textual records and other materials

Scope and Content:

This subseries consists of records relating to the creation and maintenance of the A-frame shelter for the St. Roch and the restoration of the St. Roch itself.  Records in this subseries take the form of manuals, logs, correspondence, receipts, notes, invoices, reports, memoranda, newspaper clippings, schedules, committee papers, plans, published materials, blue prints, photographs, proposals, architectural specifications, negatives, and ephemera.

Notes:

Title of subseries:  Supplied title based on the contents of the subseries.

Physical Description:

  • Includes 1 portfolio of blue prints : 28 p. ; 38 x 25 cm
  • 2 photographs : b&w ; 23.5 x 17 cm
  • 16 negative frames ; b&w 35mm
  • 77 contact sheets : b&w
  • 1 DVD

 Associated material: Oversized material is stored in drawer 16m, catalogue #2007.5000.0739.

Subseries 1.5 File List:

Series Box.File# File Title Date
1.5 1.1 [Maintenance and repairs] 1950-1951
1.5 1.2 VMM correspondence re: St. Roch 1961-1987
1.5 1.4 Technical advisory committee 1962
1.5 1.11 Preservation report 1987
1.5 2.12 Correspondence and notes on the construction of the St. Roch shelter 1965-1972
1.5 2.16 Fed. naval architects program 1969
1.5 2.17 St. Roch administration 1975-1981
1.5 3.1 [Correspondence re: restoration of the St. Roch] 1968
1.5 3.4 St. Roch committee 1969
1.5 3.5 Correspondence and notes on the construction of the St. Roch shelter 1958-1974
1.5 3.10 St. Roch technical advisory committee 1962
1.5 3.16 Restoration of the motor vessel RCMP St. Roch 1971-1974
1.5 4.1 [Preservation publications] 1952-1973
1.5 4.2 Preservation 1960-1992
1.5 4.3 Raymond Harrison blueprints for the museum 1956-1957
1.5 4.4 St. Roch shelter building proposal and correspondence 1971-1981
1.5 4.5 Specifications for the restoration of the schooner St. Roch 1958
1.5 4.8 General specifications for the RCMP St. Roch shelter 1965
1.5 4.9 Report on B.C. Centennial Project for Vancouver Maritime Museum and Arctic Circle 1957
1.5 4.10 City of Vancouver Maritime Museum specifications for the construction of sea wall, dry dock and work on the M.V. St. Roch 1957
1.5 4.11 Correspondence with Jarvis Construction 1958
1.5 4.12 St. Roch Preservation Society 1956
1.5 5.3 B.C. Centennial Maritime Museum: two schemes to build within funds already available 1957
1.5 5.4 [Specifications for the construction of the VMM parts 1 and 2 and related material] 1958
1.5 5.6 [Restoration reports and correspondence: includes marine survey 1971 – Meadow Marine] 1960-1973
1.5 5.7 St. Roch restoration correspondence 1970-1973
1.5 5.8 St. Roch restoration and correspondence 1959-1969
1.5 5.9 St. Roch restoration finance 1959-1971
1.5 5.17 Frank Carr / National Maritime Museum- Greenwich 1962
1.5 6.1 St. Roch museum board – Bouwman 1965-1966
1.5 6.5 St. Roch Preservation Society 1955-1964
1.5 6.6 [Proposal for sale of St. Roch and lease of its shelter and related material] [ca. 1983]
1.5 8.9 [St. Roch shelter leak documentation] 1983
1.5 8.14 [Colour schedule] 1958
1.5 12.22 [St. Roch National Historic Site report No. 354 Vol. 1] 1968
1.5 15.1 Ship: City of Vancouver operation of n.d.
1.5 15.2 Ship: alterations / building / refit n.d.
1.5 15.3 Ship: Parks Canada restoration of n.d.
1.5 15.5 Ship: shelter n.d.
1.5 16.2 Indian and Northern Affairs “Restoration of the Motor vessel RCMP St. Roch 1971-1974
1.5 46.1 St. Roch agreements 1965-1976
1.5 46.2 St. Roch restoration correspondence, vol. 1 1968-1974
1.5 46.3 St. Roch restoration correspondence, vol. 2 1968-1974
1.5 46.4 St. Roch restoration 1972
1.5 46.5 St. Roch restoration 1973
1.5 46.6 St. Roch restoration (Jan-June) 1974
1.5 46.7 St. Roch restoration (July-Dec) 1974
1.5 46.8 St. Roch maintenance inspection report” by Alex Barbour 1979-1984
1.5 46.9 St. Roch ice sheathing corrosion study” by James Moore 1979
1.5 46.10 “Restoration of the Motor Vessel RCMP St. Roch, 1971-1974” by Richard Fairweather 1982
1.5 47.1 Conservation assessment of St. Roch by Andrew Todd Conservators Ltd., vol. 1 of 2 2012
1.5 47.2 Conservation assessment of St. Roch (DVD) by Andrew Todd Conservators Ltd., vol. 2 of 2 2012