Well, I await a real expert to blow this up, but I agree that Anglo Canada just didn't have a real showman or two -- in spite of the people I mentioned, good people, well meaning, it just stayed a kind of museum-piecy thing. The critical mass of players -- the deeps of Appalachia, etc., were just no longer there -- again, not for the maritimes, and certainly not for Quebec. There were also time delays and the Quebec thing. If (and here I am making this up) if the Canadian Centennial -- which was a huge deal in Canada, really a whole cultural awakening -- had been in 1957 rather than in 1967, I think we might have had a real Anglo folk tradition.   By 1967 it was just too late: too much else was going on.

yours,

Peter T.