LBT, "Mouth of the Tobique" is relatively modern - the composer must still be alive - and nearly always with that sort of tune the story behind the title is not only well-documented, it's widely used in stage patter. For some of us, it would be worth knowing what it is. Maybe the jerky rhythm in the third part is a fish on a line?

Neil D: I didn't say anything about Irish placenames. Cape Breton's culture is predominantly Scottish, and in placenames Scotland features much more strongly than Ireland across the whole of Canada, for that matter. "Miss Forbes's Farewell to Banff" is not about the Rockies.

If you were to include only one instrumental tune I would pick Paul Cranford's beautiful fiddle lament "The Graveyard of the Gulf", about the shipwrecks in the Gulf of St Lawrence (something he spent a long time thinking about in his job as a lighthouse keeper).