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Distinguished Pioneer Awards

File consists of six contact sheets with a total of 197 images of the Distinguished Pioneer Awards ceremony held at Hotel Vancouver and prints of four of these images. Includes many images of Governor General Jeanne Sauve handing out the awards. Prints include an image of Sauve presenting an award to Mr. Rice, images of the officials attending, and a view of the seated recipients. Individuals identified are Governor General Jeanne Sauve, Mr. Rice, Mayor Michael Harcourt and Vancouver Centennial Commission Chairman Michael Francis.

Fashion parades, February 1960 and undated slides

File consists of twelve photographs of a February 1960 fashion parade in Chinatown attended by Mayor A.T. Alsbury and Miss Vancouver Chinatown 1960 Donna Yee, as well as two photographs of a parade in Chinatown, likely taken in 1960.

[Flying jaunt: The Mayor, Captain Glover, Executive B.C. Electric Railway Company, Mayor's Secretary, (with back to camera) after flight in sea plane]

Photograph shows (from left to right): Mayor L.D. Taylor, Captain Glover, unidentified man, and George Fitch standing on the beach at the Jericho Beach Station after flight in seaplane. An article in the March 6, 1939. The Daily Province states that this was Taylor's first flight.

[Flying. Left to right: the Mayor L.D. Taylor, Major [Tudhope?] M.C., Captain Glover, before seaplane flight]

Photograph shows Mayor L.D. Taylor, Major [Tudhope] and Captain Glover of the B.C. Electric Railway Company, dressed in flight gear standing in front of a seaplane at the Jericho Beach Station. L.D. Taylor is wearing aviator goggles. An article in the March 6, 1939 The Daily Province states that this was his first flight.

Fraser Wilson mural

File consists of two contact sheets with a total of sixty images pertaining to a celebration for the restoration and relocation of murals by artist Fraser Wilson from Pender Hall to the Maritime Labour Centre. Individuals identified are Mayor Mike Harcourt and Fraser Wilson. Some images appear to show Harcourt and Councillor May Brown with items from the Mayors Gift Program.

Gerald McGeer in hospital bed at St. Paul's, with two nurses at bedside

Item is a photograph showing Gerald McGeer in hospital bed at St. Paul's, with two nurses at bedside. Caption from Pacific Press clipping affixed to back of photograph: "Lots of attention is coming the way of Senator Gerry McGeer these days. Weak, but cheerful, the colorful mayoralty candidate grinned from his St. Paul's Hospital bed this morning and said 'My hat is still in the ring unless somebody has kicked it out without authority.' Nurses Maureen Gallacher, left, and Moya Calder shook their heads dubiously as the senator conducted campaign business from his cot."

[Governor General Lord Byng's farewell visit]

Inscription by L.D. Taylor on verso of print reads: "Miss Sandford lady in waiting, Captain [?] Mgr. B.C. Coast S.S. Coy., Her Excellency Baroness BYNG, The Mayor [L.D. Taylor], His Excellency Baron Byng, Colonel Foster C.D.C."

[Governor General Lord Byng's farewell visit]

Inscription by L.D. Taylor on verso of print reads: " Party. Left to right: Councillor McLean, Revelstoke, B.C., His Excellency Baron Byng, myself {Mayor L.D. Taylor], Chief of Police Long, my secretary George Fitch, Her Excellency Baroness Byng, Miss Sandford lady in waiting." Photograph taken at C.N. Station.

[Group portrait of city council]

Individuals idenified are back row (L-R): Charles Jones, Willard D. Greyell, Henry L. Covey, Halford D. Wilson, front row (L-R): Dr. G.H. Worthington, George Buscombe, John W. Cornett, John Bennett and George C. Miller

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