This  text file, one of a number for  Canadian Shipbuilding and Engineering Limited  was originally produced some years ago as a hard copy finding aid for the museum staff and those making use of the Audrey Rushbrook Memorial Library and Archives. The colection is now larger than is indicated here. The most up to date information can be found online at our search engine link - archives and pictorial. It is a long text file and was intended for on-site researchers. Many browsers have a 'find in page' feature that will permit you to search for words and phrases. Staff and others who are very familiar with this collection find the text file useful.

You are of course welcome to use this text file but there is a more efficient way to search for information about specific items in the collection by using the links - Collections Catalogue and Archival.

Specific items in the collections are given an inventory control number called an Accession Number usually in three parts, for example - 993.11.1. (meaning the first item in the eleventh collections to be accessioned in 1993) . Retain these numbers should you intend to visit the archives and use the material.

Introduction

Scope and Content Notes

Provenance

Subgroup Engineering Drawings

Kingston Shipyard Subseries

Midland Shipyard Subseries

Collingwood Shipyard Subseries

INTRODUCTION

Canadian Shipbuilding and Engineering is the parent company of the five separate shipyards represented within this fonds: Port Arthur, Kingston Shipyards, Midland Shipyards, Collingwood Shipyards, and Davie Shipyards. As the head office it consolidated records forwarded from all these constituent businesses for purposes of analysis - financial and engineering. The material in this collection reflects these two concerns: the textual records are basically financial; these are balance by two outstanding collections of engineering drawings capturing marine technology from the prewar and postwar periods to the present.

The administrative histories of the various yards are reproduced in other inventories it was deemed redundant to reprint them here. The interested researcher is referred to the archivist.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTES

This fonds is composed of three accessions, containing both textual records and engineering drawings. These have been arranged into two subgroups; the first contains textual corporate records encorporated into one series titled Canadian Shipbuilding and Engineering Business Records. This series comprises 63 linear feet. The second subgroup maintains the naval architectural drawings, and it is divided into two series. The Collingwood Ship Plan Series is comprised of drawings of vessels generated by that yard and totals 4704 separate items, (approximately 40-50% are original linens): the second series, titled the Canadian Shipbuilding and Engineering General Ship Plan Series contains 908 plans. They in turn are listed in three subseries representing the three shipyards which created them: Kingston Shipyard Subseries with 322 plans; Midland Shipyard Subseries comprised of 445 drawings; and Collingwood Shipyard Subseries containing 140 plans.

Provenance

All of the records were generated by agents of Canadian Shipbuilding and Engineering, that is the subsidiary companies represented directly in the three series. All of the drawings in the Collingwood Ship Plan Series and Canadian Shipbuilding and Engineering General Ship Plan Series are products of their respective companies.

Source

All materials were donated to the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston by Canadian Shipbuilding and Engineering.

Restrictions

There are no restrictions on these records.

Copyright

Copyright was transferred in toto from Canadian Shipbuilding and Engineering to the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston.

Finding Aids

A printed inventory is available as well as electronic. The finding aid is available on the Marine Museum database which can be accessed externally via 'Internet' either directly or through the Queens University Library database.

TEXTUAL SUBGROUP

Canadian Shipbuilding and Engineering Business Records Series

This series is comprised of corporate records sourced from five of CS&E subsidiary shipyards: Kingston Shipyards; Collingwood Shipyards; Davie Shipyards; Midland Shipyards; Port Arthur Shipyards - it is assumed forwarded to corporate headquarters for combined storage. The material also includes consolidated comparative financial records of the parent company CS&E itself. The records are overwhelmingly financial in nature: financial statements/balance sheets, audits, and job estimates form 53 feet of the serie's total 63 linear feet. The remainder is comprised of miscellaneous agreements, workers' compensation returns, company by-laws, deeds, ship specifications, and miscellaneous unsorted plans (prints).

The material is organized (generally) chronologically by year, with the financial statements first, followed by estimates. Material from each shipyard is boxed separately as a general principle, although the researcher will find some admixture of materials. Financial statements are a primary source for the economic historian and the bulk of those extant for each company are to be found in this fonds; this material complements neatly the engineering correspondence, ship specifications, engineering drawings and photographs from these five shipyards to be found in associated collections in the Marine Museum Archives. As a caveat to the researcher, it must be noted that of course all estimates do not translate into actual construction projects - they are estimates and must be interpreted as such.

The date range for miscellaneous material is sporadic including material from 1874-1913; the bulk of the financial records date from 1942-1972: they are consistent and comprehensive. The series comprehends 63 linear feet.

 

Earl Moorhead
Archivist 01/06/94

BOX# BOX LISTS

986.79.1 CS&E 1946-1955 statements, costs

986.79.2 CS&E 1947-1952 consolidated financial & monthly statements

986.79.3 CS&E 1949-1955 consolidated comparative balance sheets

(+ 1947 -1950 ledger)

986.79.4 CS&E 1954-1960 balance sheets

986.79.5 CS&E 1956-1960 consolidated comparative balance sheets

986.79.6 CS&E 1961-1966 consolidated comparative balance sheets

986.79.7 CS&E 1967-1972 consolidated comparative balance sheets

986.79.8 CS&E 1961-1978 consolidated financial statements

986.79.9 Kingston 1956-1960 monthly statements, 1937 finanical statement; Davie 1970-1972 statement

986.79.10 Kingston 1961-1968 monthly statements

986.79.11 Port Arthur 1930-1955 balance sheets

986.79.12 Port Arthur 1956-1964 balance sheets

986.79.13 Port Arthur 1965-1966 balance sheets; 1966-1974 financal statements

986.79.14 Collingwood 1944-1962 financial statements

986.79.15 Collingwood 1962-1972 financial statements

986.79.16 Davie 1962-1969 financial statements

986.79.17 Midland capital war expenditures; gen. shipbuilding

estimates 1949, 1953-1955, 1962-1963

986.79.18 Midland 1945-1951 financial statements; 1943-1951

balance sheets

986.79.19 Midland 1952-1962 financial statements

986.79.20 Collingwood 1874-1913 deeds, leases,agreements, registration; 1954-1968 ledger; Midland property plans 986.79.21 Kingston shipbuilding company by-laws; local directors minute book, Agreements; Port Arthur 1958-1959 balance sheets; Collingwood 1904-on agreements

986.79.22 Collingwood & Kingston 1910s-1950s assorted material

986.79.23 CS&E 1943-1951 balance sheets; Port Arthur 1942-1951 balance sheets; Collingwood 1943-1951 balance sheets

986.79.24 workers compensation returns 1950s-1974; 1974-1980 vacation pay; census of industry (dominion statistician); invoices, etc.

986.79.25 auditors reports: CS&E, 1952-1972; Midland, 1952-1955;

Kingston, 1953-1955 ; Port Arthur, 1952-1955; Collingwood, 1952-1955

986.79.26 Kingston estimates - assorted (Approximately 15)

986.79.27 Collingwood estimates - assorted, hull# 37-167

986.79.28 Estimates - hull# 175, 177, 180-182

986.79.29 Collignwood estimates - hull# 182-184, 187

986.79.30 Estimates - hull# 188-191

986.79.31 Collingwood estimates - hull# 193, 197, 239; HBC barge,

PA 126; calculations, PA 109; cargo vessel; info re nuclear powered ships

986.79.32 Collingwood estimates - # 731, 733, 735, 738, 740-741,

743-745, 751, 755, 756, 759, 760, 763,764, 766, 782, 785-787, 793, 806-809, 815, 816, 820, 821, 824, 825, 829, 830, 835

986.79.33 Estimates - # 836-856, 859

986.79.34 Estimates - # 861-896

986.79.35 Estimates - # 900-902, 904-919, 921-925

986.79.36 Estimates - # 926-929, 931, 933-935, 889

986.79.37 Collingwood estimates - # 7101-7115, 7201-7205

986.79.38 Estimates - # 7206-7211, 7215-7218

986.79.39 Estimates - # 7222-7224, 7306-7310, 7312-7313, 7315

986.79.40 Estimates - # 7317-7320, 7401, 7408 (part 1)

986.79.41 Estimates - # 7408-7413, 7416

986.79.42 Estimates - # 7418, 7502-7508, 7512, 7601, 7614

986.79.43 Estimates - # 7615, 7617-7620

986.79.44 Estimates - # 7622-7624, 7628-7629

986.79.45 Estimates - # 7701, 7702, 7705-7709, 7711, 7713, 7716

986.79.46 Estimates - # 7715, 7720-7721, 7726-7727

986.79.47 Estimates - # 7729-7736, 7738

986.79.48 Collingwood estimates - # 7801, 7807, 7810, 7812, 7823, 8332, 8333, 8337-8339, 8344

986.79.49 Collignwood estimates - # 8315, 8322

986.79.50 Collingwood estimates - # 8401, 8403, 8401-8409, 8415

8415-8422

986.79.51 Davie estimates - # 857, 862-864, 909; plans for W.I.

ferry PA 128

986.79.52 Davie estimates - hull # 617, 625, 627, 629, 641,

645-647

986.79.53 Davie estimates - p.276, p.114, p.100, p.834,

Great Lakes bulk freighter, and HMCS Restigouche &

HMCS Kootenary

986.79.54 Davie hull specifications # 648, 653-658, 607; assorted

instructional material 1940s-1960s

986.79.55 Davie hull specifications # 650, 651; assorted plans;

calculations # 186, PA 111-113, 45, PA 119

[Alexander Henry], K74, M35, 185, 186, 649

986.79.56 Davie estimates - hull # 661, 856-859; Env.# 223-230;

Eskimo

986.79.57 Davie estimates - hull # 653-658, 661

986.79.58 Davie estimates - hull # 647-651

986.79.59 Davie estimates - hull # 647-651

986.79.60 Misc. plans "Dr.15" on each one

986.79.61 Misc. plans "Dr.17" on each one

986.79.62 Misc. plans "Dr.18" on each one

986.79.63 Misc. plans, 1908-1958; plans for "Glomar" 1972

The Collingwood Ship Plan Series (986.75) consists of 4707 construction drawings for over 120 new hulls and major ship conversions carried out at Collingwood Shipyards between 1949 and 1985. They represent virtually every type and design of large vessel built for use on the Great Lakes system including: Upper Laker Bulk and Package Freighters; Canallers; Tankers; Car Ferries; Ice Breakers; Barges; and Collingwood's specialty, the Seaway sized Self-Unloading Bulk Carrier. This series is the largest and most comprehensive single collection in the archive's holdings, and arguably one of the very best in the country. Not only does it maintain material of special interest to the historian of marine transport and marine technology; it is regularly referenced by active shipping companies and naval architects - such is its strength in postwar Canadian ship design.

The Canadian Shipbuilding and Engineering General Ship Plan Series is comprised of 908 plans from three subsidiary yards, Kingston Shipyards, Midland Shipyards, and Collingwood Shipyards. The subseries have been arranged and titled reflecting the three sources. The plans represented range in date from 1926 through 1973, with the majority linen originals. Many plans represent repairs and refits, which capture older technologies in transition; although new builds are also well represented, particularly from the Kingston Shipyard Subseries. Important site plans of Midland and Collingwood shipyards are captured in their respective subseries, such as the 1925 yard plans of Collingwood. Rare draughtmanship is exhibited in boiler and marine engine plans from Collingwood dating ca. 1911, a full construction set of general arrangement and cylinder and valving details are provided. Of particular interest to the historian of Canada Steamship Lines, are general arrangements for four newly proposed passenger vessels for the 'Great White Fleet' - drawn up but cancelled, after the disaster of the Noronic. This is a small collection but its 'eccentricities' make it one of our most valuable, and interesting sets of engineering drawings.

ACC.# SHIP NAME YR.

991.32.1-131 Cataraqui (Lightship) 1959

991.32.133-189 D.C Everest (Pulp Carrier) 1952

991.32.190-281 Fort Steele (Patrol Cruiser) 1958

991.32.282-308 Windmill Point (Passenger Ferry) 1954

991.32.309-322 Amherst Islander (Passenger Ferry) 195

991.32.323-511 James Morris (Bulk Carrier) 1951

991.32.512-529 T.R. McLagan (Bulk Carrier) 1954

991.32.530-542 City of Hamilton(Package Freighter)1927

City of Montreal

991.32.543-550 Coverdale (Bulk Carrier) 1950

991.32.551-570 Gordon C. Leitch (Bulk Carrier) 1953

991.32.571-592 Strathroy (Corvette) 1944

991.32.593-594 Rockwing (Tug) 1944

991.32.864-865 Midland Yard Plans 1953

991.32.866-874 Miscellaneous Fittings 1945

991.32.595-606 B.A. Peerless (Tanker) 1952

991.32.607-611 Midland Prince (Self-Unloader) 1907

991.32.612-634 Hochelaga (Bulk Carrier) 1949

991.32.635-642 Charles Dick 1922

991.32.643-645 Gleneagles (Bulk Carrier) 1926

991.32.646-649 Algoail (Self-Unloader) 1968

991.32.650-662 French Hopper Barge (Barge) 1948

991.32.663-674 Imperial Sarnia 1948

991.32.675-679 Imperial Collingwood 1948

Imperial London

991.32.680-682 Agoming (Ferry) 1926

991.32.683-685 Chesterfield 1928

991.32.686-689 Imperial Leduc (Tanker) 1951

991.32.690 Imperial Woodbend (Tanker) 1951

991.32.691 Menihek Lake (Bulk Carrier) 1959

Murray Bay 1960

Carol Lake

991.32.692 Mondoc (Bulk Carrier) 1962

Lawrendoc

991.32.693 Frontenac (Self-Unloader) 1973

991.32.694 R. Bruce Angos (Bulk Carrier) 1951

991.32.695-696 James W. Curray (Ferry) 1947

991.32.697-699 (Corvettes)

991.32.700-710 Steam Engines G.A. and Details 1911

991.32.711-712 Chesterfield (Barge) 1928

991.32.713-716 Alexander Henry (Ice Breaker) 1959

991.32.717 Victorious

991.32.718 Captain C.D. Selord

991.32.719 Unknown (Ferry)

991.32.720-736 Hudson Transport (Tanker) 1962

991.32.737 Wm. M. Connelly

991.32.738 Donnacona

991.32.739 Lemoyne (Bulk Carrier) 1926

991.32.740-767 Unknown

991.32.768 Glenella (Tug) 1945

991.32.769-777 Bayport (Tug)

991.32.778-786 Nipigon Bay (Bulk Carrier) 1958

991.32.787-793 Sir James Dunn (Bulk Carrier) 1952

991.32.794-797 Proposed Vessel No.1 (Passenger)

991.32.798 Proposed Vessel No.2 (Passenger)

991.32.799 Proposed Vessel No.3 (Passenger)

991.32.800-810 Proposed Vessel No.4 (Passenger)

991.32.811-814 Proposed C.S.L Vessel (Passenger)

991.32.815 Black Bay, Yank Canuck, Fort Chambly,

Caribou Reefer

991.32.816 Hochelaga (Buly Carrier) 1949

991.32.817 Imperial Leduc (Tanker) 1951

991.32.818 Fort Steele (RCMP Patrol Vessel 1958

991.32.819 Windmill Point (Ferry) 1954

991.32.820 (Patrol Vessel)

991.32.821-822 Metis (Self-Unloader)

991.32.823 Pitts Merritt (Dredge) 1957

991.32.824 Cataraqui (Lightship) 1959

991.32.825-831 Steam Engine Details: L.P./I.P./H.P Cylinders/G.A./Boilers 1920

991.32.832-845 Collship Yard Machinery Details 1910

991.32.846-863 Collingwood Harbour and Yard Plans 1925

991.32.875-908 Collingwood Yard Machinery Details 1973

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