the fifth-floor studio from which dale worked in a century-old building on toronto’s market st. was severely damaged by a fire in march 1970 that destroyed the building. dale lost her kiln and art supplies. she was forced to relocate to jarvis street in the former salvation army offices where she pursued her fibreglass work. her last known relief was a fibreglass sculpture for the greenblade junior high school mississauga ontario (architect w.r. ussner). this thirty-inch wide mural, executed in three vertical sections, reached to a second-floor balcony was coloured in shades of blue. it was designed with apertures to allow children to physically interact with it. after the completion of this mural, dale she indicated she wished to focus on painting.