I think this is a conversation which deserves to be resurrected from time to time.

Just a further bit on 'my' part of the Lake Erie shoreline ... I think I was mostly surprised to learn, in reading the aforementioned book, that our early settlement was SO germanic. Now, I confess to a "Duh" moment here, because a lot of the names of the early settlers are still prevalent in town: Doan, Sherk, Zavitz. I went to school with them all so I will hie me to the back of the class.

Anyway, this then led me to thinking what the 'roots' music would have been for the area. There's an invoice somewhere in the book of household items which, if I recall correctly, were lost in a raid during the War of 1812; included are a flute and a fiddle.

What would have been the song repertoire of a predominantly german-dutch population of the time, I wonder? Of course, one would also have to take into account the fact that some of these were first and even second generation Americans.

I guess it relates to the overall topic here, as there were influences on Canadian music beyond the English/Scottish/French.

sian