Series consists of receipts, pay rolls, time-sheets, ledgers, and other various records relating to the financial operation of the cannery. The series primarily consists of stock and inventory records of the cannery and the cannery store, and also includes pay roll, employee time-sheets, ledgers, receipts, and other various records in relation to the financial operation of the cannery.

The series consists of handwritten and typed letters, as well as telegrams relating to the industry. This is the largest series in the fonds, and contains information relating to many aspects of the fish canning industry as well as the individuals who worked at inverness. A majority of the correspondence is between the Inverness cannery and the head office of J.H. Todd and Sons located in Victoria British Columbia. Other correspondence is between the cannery and other related companies such as lumber, boat manufacturers, and cannery equipment providers.

Series consists of records related to the canning of fish at Inverness Cannery. Records primarily include pack reports which detail weight and number of different types of fish canned. Inspection reports on the quality of fish canned are also included, along with annual tallies of fish canned. Equipment required for fish canning and cannery employee books are also included in the series.

Series consists of licenses, sales and rental agreements, workers compensation, first aid, and insurance records as well as military and union records. Military records include documents about rations, wages, Japanese boating impoundments, and postponement of service requests for Cannery employees. Three Union agreements from 1946, 1947, and 1962 are included as well as minutes from meetings.

Series consists of captain’s and fisher persons’ logbooks, journals, ledgers, boat and boating equipment records, and traps and trap equipment records. Inverness Cannery caught and canned five species of salmon: sockeye, pink, chum, coho, and spring, as well as halibut, tuna, and herring. They used Troll fishing boats, Gillnet boats and Seiners, as well as operated 5 freshwater salmon traps. Statistics relating to fish catches and fish packs, as well as river and weather conditions are available in the series. Workers in the cannery included Chinese, European, Indigenous, and Japanese men and women, and records relating to these individual groups are available in the series. Records in relation to World War One and World War Two are also in this series, including impoundment and sale of Japanese owned vessels, and applications for delayed military service for commercial fishermen.

Series consists of records relating to a school operated by Inverness Cannery. Includes correspondence, school order forms, reports on annual general meetings, applications for position of teacher, school receipts, and monthly reports prepared for department of education.

Series consists of several years' worth of news clippings in relation to the Sook traps the Inverness Cannery used to catch saltwater salmon. Newsclippings include such sources as: The Daily Colonist, Western Fisheries, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Province, Pacific Coast News, Victoria Daily Times, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Seattle Daily Times. Also included are copies of Fishermen’s Weekly, and a Gordon & Belyea Hardware Catalogue., a labeling machine catalogue, and several pamphlets relating to taxes and military efforts. Series also contains United Allied Fishermen and Associated Workers Union pamphlets.