upon returning to vancouver, dale completed two public mural commissions: one a figurative sgraffito at 2033 comox, vancouver that has recently been restored (2014), while another, representing b.c. industries in encaustic for johnston heights secondary school in surrey b.c., points to her encounters with mexican muralism. dale and her new partner, the architect w.r. (wilfrid) ussner, then left b.c. together, and aside from a short time in montreal, 1962–63, with intermittent travels to europe and mexico, were located in toronto throughout the 1960s. dale and ussner collaborated professionally during this time, with ussner often affording dale opportunities for relief murals through his architectural projects, and dale providing the professional expertise to his clients who wished to integrate art and architecture. their close working relationship is evident in a joint brief montreal business venture, "techniques des arts," mounted in november 1962, that designated dale as director and ussner as architectural advisor. its opening coincided with dale’s exhibition of paintings and ceramics at the nearby small art-tech gallery, where her continued interest in the abstract sculptural surfaces of mayan architectural forms is evident in the works represented in the gallery invitation. by the mid-1960s dale had completed fourteen murals in central canada and spain, including works in clay, stained glass, sand casting, concrete and encaustic.