This is a Canadian version of a popular broadside ballad that is still sung all over the UK and Ireland. It was collected here from the singing of LaRena Clark. The song is probably referring to the British / French engagements in Egypt between 1798 and 1...
A well- known broadside ballad (Circa 1830) about the rise and fall of Napoleon and the hopes of his son. The narrator in the song is Napoleon II speaking to his mother. The "Bonny Bunch of Roses" are the counties of Europe. Sung by Joseph Chisholm (born ...
This amazing document from Toronto, is a broadside advertising a Burns Supper at St. Lawrence Hall in 1859. That year was the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns. The original is in the Toronto Public reference Library. Check the "eve o...
A patriotic song about the Northwest Rebellion by John Imrie. (1846-1902) Living and working in Toronto, Imrie was a lesser Scottish-Canadian poet and songwriter who had one considerable advantage over his rivals - He had his own printing press! I firs...
The Canadian Jubilee Singers were a professional vocal group pattered after the famous Fisk Jubilee Singers from Fisk University in Tennessee. They sang the same brand of African-American spirituals, but were mostly from the Hamilton area. William and S...
