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Music in Saint-Hyacinthe
A city in Quebec on the Yamaska River, some 50 km east of Montreal. Founded in 1748, a municipality in 1849, and a town in 1857, it was named after the patron saint of Jacques-Hyacinthe-Simon Delorme, the local seigneur.
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Music in Saint John
In early Saint John, music was the special enthusiasm of the educated Loyalists and the British officers.
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Music in Sarnia
Ontario city settled in 1807. It was known first as Fort Rapids, later as Port Sarnia, and in 1856 it was incorporated as the town of Sarnia. It became a city in 1914. Its population was 49,033 in 1986.
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Music in Saskatoon
Saskatchewan city founded in 1882 as a temperance colony by pioneers from Ontario. It was incorporated as a town, with a population of 544, in 1903, and as a city, with five times that number, in 1906.
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Music in Sault Ste Marie
Ontario city across the St Mary's River from Sault Ste Marie, Mich. As early as 1668 there was a small settlement of fur traders on the site. The permanent settlement was established in 1792. Sault Ste Marie was incorporated as a town in 1887 and as a city in 1912.
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Schola cantorum
Schola cantorum. Founded in Montreal 19 Mar 1915 by Jean-Noël Charbonneau. It was inaugurated 15 September as the Diocesan School of Sacred Music by Archbishop Georges Gauthier of Montreal. Its first individual and group lessons were attended by 84 students.
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Shaftesbury Hall
Shaftesbury Hall. The auditorium in Toronto's first YMCA, built at Queen and James streets in 1872 to designs by the architects Smith and Gemmel. The hall was on the ground floor with a direct entrance from the street, a double gallery, and a seating capacity of about 1700.
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Music in Sherbrooke
City in southern Quebec, located about as far south of Quebec City as it is east of Montreal. With its suburbs it has a population reaching about 129,000 (1990); it has been called 'Queen of the Eastern Townships' or of 'L'Estrie,' the more recent name for the area.
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Music in Sorel
City situated 60 km east of Montreal at the junction of the St Lawrence and Richelieu rivers on the former site of Fort Richelieu, built in 1642, and the seigneury given in 1672 to Pierre de Saurel, a captain in the Carignan-Salières Regiment.
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St. Anne's Anglican Church
St. Anne's Anglican Church was located on Gladstone Avenue in the Brockville residential neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario (near Dufferin and Dundas Streets). (See also Anglicanism in Canada.) Built in 1907-08 in the Byzantine Revival style, St. Anne's Anglican Church contained a remarkable collection of paintings by prominent Canadian artists, including three members of the Group of Seven. (See also J.E.H. MacDonald Frederick Horsman Varley; Franklin Carmichael.) The church was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1996. On 9 June 2024, the church was destroyed by a four-alarm fire.
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Music in St. Catharines
St. Catharines. Ontario city, incorporated 1876, situated on the south shore of Lake Ontario. Known informally as "the Garden City," it was centred on the earliest of the four Welland canals. The present canal runs along the city's eastern limits.
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Music in St John's
The capital city of Newfoundland and Labrador, situated on the northeastern arm of the Avalon peninsula. St John's claims to be the oldest settled and continuously occupied European community in North America.
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Music in Stratford
Ontario town (Little Thames until 1831) located on the Avon River 75 kilometres west of Hamilton, in Perth County, and incorporated as a city in 1885. It was the site of railway shops ca. 1871-1964 and became the home of the Stratford Festival in 1953.
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The Stratford Festival
The Stratford Festival is one of the world’s premier festivals of classical and contemporary theatre.
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Music in Sudbury
Sudbury, Ont. Mining community in northern Ontario. Settled in 1883 and incorporated as city in 1930, Sudbury by 1986 had a population of 88,717 from a variety of national origins.
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