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McCance draws a set design in pencil featuring various styles of canopy beds. Recto states ""Empire Period"" Created for an unknown production, possibly the Vancouver Opera Association's 1962 production of Amneris in Aida.

McCance draws a rough sketch of the set for Gypsy featuring the Backstage of the Vaudeville House in Act 1, Scene 3. Created for the 1963 Theatre Under the Stars' production of Gypsy.

Program describing schedule of events, entertainment, and dinner at the Marco Polo Restaurant for the 41st convention of the CWNA.

A handwritten message titled "A Birthday Toast" which is written for Christine and Pauline for their 21st birthdays from P.F.

The backside of a black-and-white photograph, showing where tape once held a transparent cover in place. All that remains are darkened stains from that adhesive and the number '16' scrawled in pencil.

A menu and programme printed on red paper with silver text for a special reception by the Vancouver Chinese Community in honour of the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.

McCance draws a set design in pencil featuring large palace's internal columns and external balcony. Created for an unknown production.

McCance draws three features and the floor plan of a set design featuring rotatable entrances to a building. Created for an unknown production, but Vancouver Ballet Society's 1965 production of ""Coppelia"" or Theatre Under…

Five children in playing attitude with the sea in the background. Based on the original order of the collection, photograph might have been taken in Alert Bay and the children might have been students at St. Michael's Residential School. The…

Black and white photograph with slight sepia tone; large group of people (19 people), which is made up of 11 men and 8 women, standing or sitting along one side of the table; they all are enjoying themselves and a few of them look to be laughing

This menu contains a list of food for sale at the Palomar Supper Club. It contains a selection of entrees, vegetables, and desserts, as well as a choice of tea, coffee, or milk. The menu also provides information to purchase tickets for upcoming…

Colour photograph #2 of 2, of a musical group performing on Marco Polo's stage. The group consists of 4 men in matching red suit jackets and one woman in sequinned pantsuit on vocals. Behind them are three more musicians, with one on a brass…

Photograph of Marco Polo's east exterior wall on the southwest corner of Pender & Columbia in Vancouver's Chinatown. The wall is painted red, with yellow text reading, in full, "Marco Polo / the original / Chinese Smorgasbord.…

The Marco Polo Scrapbooks are invaluable historical artifacts of Vancouver’s Chinatown nightlife in the 1960s and 1970s. The two books - containing photographs, menus, posters, letters, newspaper clippings, and other ephemera - catalogue the…

Landscape. According to annotations, photograph was taken in Dead Horse Gulch on the White Pass & Yukon Route Railway, Alaska, along the "Trail of '98"

White back of photo which has "No. __/Copyright Photo by/Alfred Knight/2586 Cornwall St./Vancouver, Canada/SEY.5077 BAY0888L" stamped on it in blue ink; 368-2- has been written in pencil in the number section

Building from afar. According to annotation, building was Elkhorn (Washakada) Residential School. The Elkhorn Residential School started as the Washakada Home for Girls and the Kasota Home for Boys were established in the village of Elkhorn, MB in…

McCance draws a shaded region on the back of the rough sketch of the set for Gypsy featuring the two hotel rooms Act 1, Scene 6. Created for the 1963 Theatre Under the Stars' production of Gypsy.

Santa Barbara Church in Mompox (Santa Cruz de Mompox), Colombia, is a colonial-era church known for its unique baroque architecture, distinctive bell tower with a balcony, and its central role in the town?€?s religious and cultural history.

Santa Barbara Church in Mompox (Santa Cruz de Mompox), Colombia, is a colonial-era church known for its unique baroque architecture, distinctive bell tower with a balcony, and its central role in the town’s religious and cultural history.

Malpelo Island is a remote, rocky island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to Colombia, renowned for its rich marine biodiversity and shark populations, and protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Malpelo Island is a remote, rocky island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to Colombia, renowned for its rich marine biodiversity and shark populations, and protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Santa Barbara Church in Mompox (Santa Cruz de Mompox), Colombia, is a colonial-era church known for its unique baroque architecture, distinctive bell tower with a balcony, and its central role in the town’s religious and cultural history.

Malpelo Island is a remote, rocky island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to Colombia, renowned for its rich marine biodiversity and shark populations, and protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Santa Barbara Church in Mompox (Santa Cruz de Mompox), Colombia, is a colonial-era church known for its unique baroque architecture, distinctive bell tower with a balcony, and its central role in the town’s religious and cultural history.