"Nova Scotians made up songs about their own lives. They sang songs about the tragic 'Springhill Mining Disaster' and 'The Halifax Explosion'. But it was the singers who breathed life into these songs. They willingly shared these treasures with Helen Creighton. People like Nathan Hatt of Middle River, Lunenburg County, who sang one song for each of his 86 years; Charles Owens, who at the age of 101 sang spirituals at his home in Bridgetown, and Ann Greenough, of Petpeswick, who first sang 'The Nova Scotia Song' for Helen Creighton in 1933. It is now our province's unofficial anthem."
(From HERE) and HERE).

~Masato