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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.

Item is an album containing photographs of the Parade of Oriental Fashions event at the 18th convention of the Canadian Food Processors Association as well as a program for the convention. The parade took place on January 22, 1965 in the Mai Tai Room of the Bayshore Inn. Photographs show female models wearing Asian dress, a fashion show and attendees.

The album also includes photographs of the Year of the Serpent Chinese New Year Festival Banquet held at the W.K. Gardens on February 26, 1965. The banquet was held in conjunction with the Spring Carnival Committee, and was sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Vancouver Visitors Bureau and the Chinese community. Included are photographs of various Vancouver pageant queens, Miss San Francisco Chinatown, Miss Chinatown USA first princess, and the crowning of a young woman with a serpent headdress and crown.

Notes at the back of the album list orders received for copies and provide some identification of those individuals appearing in the photographs.

Item is an album containing photographs relating to the Republic of China (Taiwan)'s participation in the 1959 Pacific National Exhibition (PNE), the theme of which was "Salute to the Pacific." Includes photographs of the Republic of China (Taiwan) pavilion, the visit of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker to the pavilion and the PNE Outdoor Theatre, and various Chinese musical and dance performances on the theatre stage. Also included in the album are photographs of a traditional Chinese dress fashion show, an aerial motorcycle act, the acceptance of a painting by Mayor A.T. Alsbury and Alderman F. Fredrickson, women and a girl in traditional dress posing with a dragon statue, and what appears to be a group of Chinese officials standing in front of the pavilion.