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Here are three photographs from the book with more detailed captions.
  Salmon Catch, 1930
 Cutch McCallum is carrying a salmon from his net located below the Trading Post on the west side of the Reversing Falls. There was a cross net over the top to prevent seagulls from entering the net at low tide and feasting on the catch. There were multiple species of fish caught in the harbour and Bay, including shad, herring, gaspereaux, sea trout, sturgeon, cod and pollock.

  HMCS Saint John, March 26, 1944
 The river class frigate HMCS Saint John, K456, was built by Canadian Vickers Ltd. in Montreal. She was laid down on May 28, 1943 and launched on August 25, 1943. Lieutenant Commander WR Stacey, RCNVR, brought his ship to the City on a courtesy call. After a parade, Mayor Wasson, standing to Stacey's right, presented the ship with a piano, a washing machine, gramophone, records, books for a library, a serving tray, water jug, cigarette box and ash trays. Stacey commanded HMCS Saint John during her attack on U-247. Under command of Oblt. Gerhard Matschulat, U-247 had one ship sunk to her credit, the British fish trawler Noreen Mary on July 5, 1944. The Saint John sank U-247, with the loss of all 52 hands, on Sept. 1, 1944 in the Channel near Lands End, by depth charges. HMCS Swansea was also given shared credit for the sinking. LtCmdr. Stacey was on leave when she killed her second U boat. U-309, under command of Oblt. Herbert Loeder, was depth charged by Saint John on Feb. 16, 1945 in the North Sea. Saint John arrived at Cardiff for repairs on Feb. 27, 1945, and, when these were completed in April, proceeded to Saint John for tropicalization refit from May to Oct. 1945. HMCS Saint John was paid off Nov. 27, 1945 at Halifax. She was placed in reserve in Bedford Basin until sold in 1947 for scrapping at Sydney.

  HMCS Magnificent, 1948
 The Maggie was borrowed from the Royal Navy as a replacement for HMCS Warrior (which was too small for the navy's requirements). The larger Majestic class Magnificent was built by Harland and Wolff, and was laid down on December 12, 1942. She was launched on May 20, 1944, commissioned on March 14, 1946, and was handed over to the RCN in Halifax on April 7, 1948. Her first call to Saint John was in September 1948 when she underwent a nine day below waterline examination and routine maintenance. During the 1956 Suez Crisis she arrived in Port Said, Egypt, with a deck load of 233 vehicles and 406 army personnel as Canada's contribution to the UN Emergency Force in the Middle East. On June 14, 1957 Magnificent was paid off. Magnificent was recommissioned as HMS Magnificent and placed in Reserve, and later sold for scrap in Faslane, Scotland in July 1965.