This subseries contains agendas for St. Andrews Navy League meetings. These agendas outline the structure of their corresponding meeting, which usually involved the reading of the previous meeting’s minutes, treasurer’s reports, reading correspondence, and discussing new and old business and upcoming events. Topics include recruitment, event organization, public relations, internal policies, fundraising, logistics for running a cadet corps, and the structure of the St. Andrews Navy League. There are also a few agendas for special meetings, such as an emergency meeting on cadet behavior, an informational meeting for parents, and a combined general meeting and open house which would have involved presentations, displays, and answering questions about the cadet movement.

Included in this subseries are a bundle of Navy League of Canada Community Service Awards, all of which are blank or missing certain fields, as well as a list of rewards and their recipients within the New Brunswick division of the Navy League for 1995. Lastly, there is a bundle of documents related to the Lions and The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. This bundle contains a pamphlet outlining the aims and purpose of the Duke Edinburgh’s Award and its requirements, a newspaper article on two of its recipients, and a registration form for this award filled in by #303 Sea Cadets in St. Andrews.

This subseries contains evaluations on the training of a pair of specific Sea Cadets, as well as other documents related to the progression of a cadet’s training and the assessment of that progression. These include notes on a first aid training course, an exam to be taken by Sea Cadets looking to advance to the rank of LC-PO2, and messages from the commanding officer of the #303 Sea Cadets in St. Andrews on how their training is progressing. There are also two bundles of documents which contain certificates of service, course reports, applications, awards, and assessments of physical fitness for a pair of cadets named Jolene Rae McCurdy and Joseph Jay Forward. Jolene’s documents are part of her application to serve for a time on board the H.M.C.S. Margaree in the Caribbean, while Joseph’s is meant to assess whether he is ready to advance to a cadet staff position.

This subseries includes a bundle of blank certificates meant to be given out to Navy League and Sea Cadet members in recognition of their service. These include a certificate meant to acknowledge participation in Navy League centennial events, a certificate of Navy League service, and a certificate of service for a Sea Cadet.

The documents in this subseries were used by the St. Andrews branch of the New Brunswick Navy League to apply to become a registered charity through Revenue Canada’s Canadian Charities and Canadian Athletic Associations Application for Registration. These documents include drafts and completed versions of the necessary application form, outlines of extra financial documents they would need to provide with the application, as well as the extra documents themselves. These extra documents include financial information on the St. Andrews Navy League, such as a report of their revenue. There are also progress reports on the status of the application, and correspondence with other members of the Navy League and Revenue Canada from the St. Andrews Navy League with questions about the application. Drafts and completed versions of St. Andrews Navy League income tax receipts are also included.

This subseries contains internal documents used by the St. Andrews Navy League, which detail how they were planning on structuring upcoming Navy League and #303 Sea Cadet Corps events. Details on these events which can be found in these documents include steps that needed to be taken to organize them, items and equipment needed for events, what they would entail, and outlines of how they would be structured. Events could include more informal affairs like cadet dances or pizza parties, to more formal events such as memorial services, parades, or fundraising. Also included is a complete list of #303 Sea Cadet activities and events from 1991-1992. There are also many documents related to planning for the Navy League’s centennial year in 1995, including details and special instructions on planned centennial events, and a publicity plan for the centennial year to promote public awareness and recruitment.

This subseries contains correspondence between members of the St. Andrews Navy League and various people who are not directly affiliated with the Navy League. Recipients can include cadet parents, who are often sent requests for donations, requests for volunteer assistance with Navy League activities or cadet events or requests to attend those events, letters related to cadet behavioral issues, and requests to attend Navy League meetings. Other recipients might be businesses, with correspondences including requests for items necessary for Sea Cadet events such as food or balloons, advertisement opportunities in the annual inspection program, orders for items for cadet uniforms such as cap tallies or badges, orders for awards to give to cadets at ceremonies, or orders for items to sell at fundraising events. There are also correspondences with local organizations such as representatives of the town of St. Andrews, the local Sir James Dunn Arena, or schools in the area. These can include requests for permission to use space for fundraising or cadet training. Many letters in this collection are related to publicity endeavors by the St. Andrews Navy League. Recipients of these letters include local newspapers and radio stations such as the St. Croix Courier or WQDY Radio, with requests to run announcements of upcoming Navy League or Sea Cadet events and recruitment messages. Lastly, there are thank you letters to volunteers, and invitations to attend cadet events.

This subseries contains a document outlining the history of the Canadian Navy League from its creation in 1895 to 1995, which was distributed as part of the Navy League’s centennial celebrations leading up to its centennial year in 1995. Also included is a document outlining the early history of the St. Andrews branch of the Navy League and the #303 “St. Andrew” Sea Cadet corps from their creation in 1986 to 1987.

This subseries contains information on a wide variety of topics which would have been taught to Sea Cadets as part of their training. These can include documents meant to educate the reader on specific kinds of Canadian ships or significant events in the history of the Canadian Navy, such as the H.M.C.S. St. Croix disaster. Historic newspaper articles from the 1940s on this event are also included. Other miscellaneous training documents include a booklet on watercraft safety orders and a poem about the Springhill mining disaster in Nova Scotia by Peggy Seeger. There are also items which outline how a cadet’s training should be structured and what should be included in it. These include a cadet training syllabus and various notes on recommendations for Sea Cadet training.

This subseries contains correspondence between different members of the St. Andrews Navy League or correspondence between representatives of the St. Andrews Navy League and members of the wider Canadian Navy League or the Canadian Navy itself. Correspondence between different members of the St. Andrews Navy League usually involved discussions about cadet officer and Navy League positions that needed to be filled, financial discussions such as the costs of using specific spaces for cadet training, requests to complete reports or plan outlines, internal memos on publicity endeavors and upcoming events, and thank you letters from Navy League members to cadet officers for their assistance. Correspondence with the wider Navy League includes recommendations of Sea Cadets for awards or scholarships, correspondence concerning the fact that the St. Andrews Sea Cadets have been placed on probation due to a lack of members, plans for the centennial year in 1995, changes to Navy League policy, invitations to general meetings, and proposals for changes to policy.