Collector/curator’s description reads: “April 1946, Vancouver. On location photo of the wedding reception for John Dick (Scottish Canadian) and Katarina Rossi (Italian Canadian). Photo was taken at Hastings Auditorium and shows the bride and groom cutting the wedding cake.”

Collector/curator’s description reads: “April 1946, Vancouver. On location photo of the wedding for John Dick (Scottish Canadian) and Katarina Rossi (Italian Canadian). Photo was taken at outside the Friendly Foursquare Church on Nanaimo Street in Vancouver. It shows the bride and groom entering a vehicle accompanied a flower girl.”

Collector/curator’s description reads: “April 1946, Vancouver. On location photo of the wedding reception for John Dick (Scottish Canadian) and Katarina Rossi (Italian Canadian). Photo was taken at Hastings Auditorium and shows long tables with wedding guests seated for dinner.”

Collector/curator’s description reads: “April 7, 1946, Vancouver. Hand-coloured wedding portrait of John Dick and Katarina Rossi. John was from a Scottish family and Katarina was of Italian descent.”

Collector/curator's description reads: “Circa 1940, Vancouver. Photo of the Trca family Arthur and Mary (nee Shorrock) and their two eldest children: Dave (left) and Gordon (on mother's lap). Arthur was originally from Bohemia, an area in the Czech Republic. His wife Mary was of Scottish descent. They would have five children together, but had a very tumultuous marriage. Eventually Mary would leave the marriage. Unable to care for five children, Arthur places the children in an orphanage for a time.”

Collector/curator's description reads: “Circa 1916, Vancouver. Left to right: James McNeilage; Jenny McNeilage (mother); Andrew McNeilage; Jenny's unidentified sister; and Dolly McNeilage. This photo was passed onto Jim, who in turn passes it on to his daughter Maureen McNeilage McGregor. Jenny's unidentified sister appears in another postcard photo likely taken the same day as she is dressed in the exact same coat and hat and appears with a WWI soldier. It is believed the sister was named Helen Marshall/Hatch (nee Galbraith) who was a widow that lived at and managed the Patricia Lodge at 83 West Pender Street.”

Collector/curator's description reads: “Circa 1945, Vancouver. Photo of the Trca children (l to r: David, Gordon, Roy, John and Joan). Their father, Arthur Trca, had immigrated from Bohemia, an area in the present-day Czech Republic, and lived for a time at the New World Hotel. He married a Scottish woman named Mary Shorrock. Although all smiles in this photo, family life was anything but easy. Their parents had a tempestuous relationship and, one day, their mother left. Their father, who was a longshoreman, struggled to raise the children and eventually placed them in orphanages. Years later, three of the boys would go on to become longshoreman too.”

Collector/curator's description reads: “Circa 1944, Vancouver. Photo of the Trca children. Left to right: Dave; Gordon; Roy; and John (seated). Their parents (Arthur Trca and Mary Shorrock) had a very tumultuous marriage. Eventually Mary would leave the marriage. Unable to care for five children, Arthur places the children in an orphanage for a time.”

Collector/curator's description reads: “Circa 1942, Vancouver. Photo of the Trca children whose father, Arthur Trca, was Bohemian Czech and whose mother, Mary (nee Shorrock), was Scottish. Left to right: Dave; Roy and Gordon. Their parents had a very tumultuous marriage. Eventually Mary would leave the marriage. Unable to care for what would eventually be five children, Arthur places the children in an orphanage for a time.”

Group portrait showing Anne Gillies Macdonald (Smith) in the middle of the group next to a man in a flat straw hat and others

Item is an amateur film documenting sculptures at the UBC campus, including George Norris' "Mother and Child," Haida and Kwakiutl totem poles at the corner of University Blvd. and East Mall, and Charles Wheeler's "King George VI." There is also footage of the Vancouver Caledonian Games, which begins with a parade of drummers, pipers, and dancers; then footage of Scottish country dancing, kids under thirteen dancing the Sailors Hornpipe, and girls dancing the Highland Fling.

item is a photograph showing three men with the J.W. Stewart Trophy for bagpipe bands.

Group portrait showing men in kilts and a Monkey Puzzle tree

Group portrait

Group portrait

Group portrait of men and women in Scottish attire on the front steps

Photograph shows the group of pipers, in costume with their bagpipes, assembled in a street.

Man is possibly Alex Johnson. Accompanying note by Ted Taylor reads: "1 Jul [19]33: off to open company in OMINECA for legislature; stopped CHILLIWACK for cherry festival; then Scottish games at Harrison Hot Springs. 24 July [19]33: L.D.T. back from Omineca with a piper and a dancer; had meetings Burns Lodge and said wouldn't run in V[ancouver] again; piper Alex Johnson piped L.D.T. into meetings; 'Miss K. [Katherine] Frederici dancer' - Sun 25 July [19]33"

Item is a photograph showing a group of men (some in kilts) and women standing around a framed list of names.