Some of the only photos I have of my parents as young people were taken by Mr. Foncie. They mean so much to me. I’m guessing my mother is about 18 in this picture. She worked as a copy-runner for …

This is my mother, then Edith Wharry. Mom was actually a press photographer on the Vancouver Sun–I believe she was the first female photographer on that paper, perhaps in Canada. Given her business-like look, I suspect that Foncie took this …

Province reporter, Myra(Nikki) Nicholson, and her boss, Evelyn Caldwell. The photo may have been taken by Foncie before he took up his more recognizable position on Granville St. This is just before the war, when women would take a more …