Collector/curator's description reads: “Early 1940s?, Vancouver. Photo of Grant family. This 1940 photo shows Agnes Grant from the Musqueam community and Hong Tim Hing from Zhongsan along with three of their children (L to R: Helen, Larry and Gordon). Hing met and married Agnes while working on a Chinese farm located on the Musqueam reserve. The family was forced to straddle two worlds. As son Larry recalls, ‘We grew up as Musqueam children, but one day the government decided we would be classified as Chinese.’ Their story, movingly told in the documentary ‘All Our Father's Relations’ exemplifies the strong connections between many Indigenous and early Chinese people.”

Collector/curator's description reads: “C. 1911, Vancouver. Photo of Wah Yip and his wife Emma (formerly known as Emma Haywood) and their two children, Mary (left) and Winnie. They are an example of an early and rare, mixed-race marriage. The couple married relatively late in life: Wah was 35 and Emma was 30 when they married in Vancouver in March, 1908. Wah was listed as born in Victoria and his occupation was listed as "store keeper". Emma had been born in Nashville, Tennessee and on the marriage certificate she is listed as a "widow." The identified their home as 102 East Pender St in Vancouver. Interestingly, the two witnesses to their marriage were not Chinese, but had the surnames Arnault and Barbour. This photo was found in the album owned by the Methodist Church.”