City of Vancouver Archives

10 lb. bag of sugar

AM1592-S23-: 2011-092.0088
Item
[196-]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item consists of the original artwork for a Len Norris cartoon published in the Vancouver Sun.

Vancouver Festival cartoons

AM1562-S03-3
Subseries
1958-1968

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

This subseries consists of cartoons relating to Vancouver Festival performances and associated events.

"No, I have not started figuring it yet... I'm still trying to stop thinking about what they do with it."

AM1562-S03-1-: 92-80
Item
5 Apr. 1974

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Item is a cartoon.

"We were at the marvellous Festival opening... they had spaghetti sauce, wine, grapes, pigeons..."

AM1562-S03-3-: 92-33.7
Item
3 July 1965

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Item is a cartoon. Display caption acquired with the item says: "Norris poked fun at the table manners of Festival-goers when confronted with a lavish spread."

"... On the other hand I felt that Mr. Kiniski's sensitive portrait of the villain opposite the buoyant acting of Rogers, was entirely up to festival standards"

AM1562-S03-3-: 92-33.1
Item
[196-?]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Item is a cartoon. Display caption acquired with the item says: "In the mid-1960s the International Festival was suffering from poor attendance. Obviously wrestling at the P.N.E. was not."

"I declare this can of salmon open."

AM1562-S03-3-: 92-33.5
Item
[196-?]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Item is a cartoon. Display caption acquired with the item says: "Norris satirized the abundance of 'openings' on the lower mainland in 1958. Both the Massey Tunnel and the Queen Elizabeth Theatre were officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II that year."

"Rosella Hightower or Yvette Chauvra... Or Joe Kapp... Can you come backstage and answer the phone?"

AM1562-S03-3-: 92-33.4
Item
[196-?]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Item is a cartoon. Display caption acquired with the item says: "Vancouver socialites are carried away by ART."

"A Colonel in the Army... and here I thought you were in show business"

AM1562-S03-3-: 92-33.2
Item
15 July 1961

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Item is a cartoon. Display caption acquired with the item says: "In 1961 the International Festival presented its first military tattoo."

"I say... Why don't we pop over to the Festival and take in a cocktail?"

AM1562-S03-3-: 92-33.3
Item
5 July 1967

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Item is a cartoon.

"As Rodney so aptly put it, mere words cannot do justice in describing the magnificent Festival ballet."

AM1562-S03-3-: 92-33.8
Item
5 July 1968

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Item is a cartoon. Display caption acquired with the item says: "Norris believed the magic of dance could creep into even humdrum lives. In 1964 the Vancouver International Festival brought the stars of the Paris Opera Ballet to town."

Scrapbooks of published cartoons by Norris

AM1562-S03-2
Subseries
1971 - 1975

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

"... So we invite them to become part of the Festival... Think of the prestige it would give our attendance records."

AM1562-S03-3-: 92-33.6
Item
15 Aug. 1959

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Item is a cartoon. Display caption acquired with the item says: "The International Festival was still having attendance problems when the B.C. Lions were in one of their heydays."

Ban the Bombs

AM1514-S3-: 2008-008.001
Item
1965

Part of Jack Wasserman fonds

Signed Len Norris cartoon

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