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File World War, 1939-1945 English
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LaBelle family album, 1940-1948

File is a photograph album showing images of the Labelle family and friends, interior and exterior views of the their home at 2677 West 43rd in Vancouver, students at Little Flower Academy, vacationing, golfing at the Marine Drive Golf Club and the Beach Grove Gold Course, the 1939 royal tour of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, workplace scenes at a B.C. Telephone Company office, trips to other parts of British Columbia, various military and air force personnel, as well as scrapbook materials from a trip to California including commercial and personal photographs, postcards and other ephemera. Names and places are further identified for most images in the album. Some images are duplicates to images found in the other LaBelle family albums of this accession.

LaBelle family

LaBelle family album, 1932-1957

File is a photograph album showing images of Eugene LaBelle working on telephone lines and other images related to the B.C. Telephone Company including three of Sproat Lake sent to the Canadian Department of National Defense for Air Pacific Communication Programme in 1943, soldiers in uniform and scenes of military training [Canadian Army Base in Kingston, Ont.?], members of the LaBelle family and friends, interior and exterior views of the family home at 2677 West 43rd in Vancouver, trips to other parts of British Columbia, Niagara Falls and the United States including postcards and other ephemera. Names and places are further identified for most images in the album. Some images are duplicates to images found in the other LaBelle family albums of this accession.

LaBelle family

Hugh Pickett scrapbook : summer 1942

File consists of a scrapbook containing autographed head shot by Kaye Connor, photographs of friends, family and army training and uniforms, notes, clippings, telegraphs, grocery list, receipts, boat trip log from July 1942, poetry, notices from the Department of National War Service and ticket stubs.

Hugh Pickett scrapbook : 1945

File consists of a scrapbook containing materials related to theatre and celebrities around Vancouver (including Marlene Dietrich), clippings about his father Fred Pickett and Dingwall Cotts Co. Ltd., photographs of family and friends, Christmas cards, and a Life magazine spread and photographic prints about George Lott, an injured soldier.

Hugh Pickett scrapbook : 1943-44

File consists of a scrapbook containing Vancouver news clippings and programs, photographs of family and friends, ticket stubs, poetry and a Victory Bond purchase certificate for Hugh Pickett.

Hugh Picket scrapbook : 1942-1943

File consists of a scrapbook containing photographs of Hugh Pickett, Len Turnbull in uniform with friends and family, Christmas correspondence and decorations, drawings, detachment documents, clippings, telegraphs, ticket stubs, birthday cards, Department of National Defense documentation for permission to travel to the United States and collected materials from a trip to California.

Clippings and news reports

File contains news clippings and news reports related to World War II. Additionally, there is a copy of the Herald Examiner (Los Angeles) from November 22, 1963 with the headline "Kennedy Slain" and a copy of the Hollywood Reporter from September 12, 2001 with the headline "Attack on America" about 9/11.

Celebrating Chinese children festival : photo album

Item is an album of photographs by Leong Dong Bing of events that took place as part of the Celebrating Chinese Children Festival held in Vancouver in April 1943 to raise money for Chinese war refugees. The album is addressed to a school in New Westminster.