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Thread #48271   Message #724248
Posted By: The Walrus at work
06-Jun-02 - 09:16 AM
Thread Name: What was sung in Ontario in 1860's?
Subject: RE: What was sung in Ontario in 1860's?
Marion,

For ""recent immigrants" from Britain, "Cheer Boys, Cheer" may well have been amongst their repertoire, after all, it was THE "hit" sog of the Crimean period and relates to emigration to Canada "...The star of Empire glitters in the West..." (PM me if you want those lyics).

Walrus