Thank you cnd. My sources are partially at the top of the post, the main source of info about Gorman being Edward D. Sandy Ives' 1964 book "The Man Who Made The Songs." Folklorists Helen Creighton, Louise Manny and Edward Ives recorded East Coast Canadian folk music in the 1940s-60s and some of these are available by request from Universities who hold the original research documents. A few are online. I'm from the same region as Gorman; he is our most important and well-known historical folk songwriter but his songs have almost completely fallen out of the culture: I am the only person who is singing a few of these tunes. One of the issues of doing Gorman tunes, even some 150 years after they were written, is that they contain so many criticisms, personality and personal attacks and this is such a small region you run the risk of offending ancestors by performing them live locally ha ha. So I think more a recording project where Gorman's PEI songs (he later lived in New Brunswick and Maine and many of his most famous songs were written in those places) are committed to "tape" for the first time.