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  1. What Is This Book About?
  2. Beginning in the Middle - Mariposa, 1961
  3. The Invention of Folk Music
  4. A Child Shall Lead Them
  5. Canadian Beginnings
  6. Gibbon and the Canadian Mosaic
  7. Red Is The Colour- The Other Mosaic –1900’s-30’s
  8. The Early Labour Song Tradition in Canada
  9. Red Front to Popular Front
  10. New Deal and No Deal
  11. Birth of a Nation
  12. Put Canada First!
  13. People’s Songs and People’s Music
  14. The Golden Age of Canadian Folk Song 1947- 1962- The Beginning
  15. The Emergence of a Repertoire
  16. The First Tour- The UJPO Folksingers
  17. Foreign Affairs
  18. World Music in the Golden Age
  19. Founding Folkies
  20. From Bonavista to the Vancouver Island
  21. Sam Gesser and Folkways Canada
  22. Country and Folk
  23. The “Revival”- Folk as Pop
  24. Mariposa Revisited- The End of the Beginning
  25. The Boom - Early Canadian Folk Professionals and the Marketplace
  26. The Songwriters
  27. East is East and West is West- Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver & Smaller Towns and Smaller Scenes
  28. Folk Rock
  29. The Real Boom- Folk in the 70’s
  30. The Festivals
  31. The Message in the Music- Political and Social Images in Songwriting and Folk Music in Canada in the 60’s and 70’s
  32. Bigger Than Ever- the 80’s
  33. New World, New Music
  34. The Little Folk- Children and Folk Music
  35. Looking Forward – Looking Backward- Folk Music at the End of the Century and the Beginning of the New Millennium
  36. What Does It Mean
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14. The Golden Age of Canadian Folk Song 1947 - 1962 - The Beginning

The period between the early post-war years and the British Invasion (The Beatles, et al.) of the early 60’s was uncommonly rich for folk music in Canada. The folklorists, the lefties, the CBC… Alan Mills, Edith Fowke, Ken Peacock, Ed McCurdy, NFLY, the UJPO Youth Singers, The Travellers, Folkways Canada,  40,000 people out for Robeson’s concert at the  Peace Arch, Bonnie Dobson, Karen James, the first coffee houses and folk clubs, Mariposa- it was a great decade and a half for folk music.

A songbook for young singers including Canadian and international folk songs published by the United Jewish People's Order (UJPO)


A songbook published by the National Federation of Labor Youth in 1951.
One of Kenneth Peacock's pamphlets- the first exploration of folk music of "new" Canadians.
Music and lyrics for Art Scammel’s Squid Jigging Ground, accompanied by an article on Canadian folk music written by Pete Seeger, as printed in Sing Out Magazine, circa 1955.
Cover of the book, My Newfoundland: Stories/Poems/Songs, by A.R. Scammell, (Montreal: Harvest House, 1966)
Cover of the book, Songs of the Pacific Northwest, by Philip J. Thomas (Saanichton, BC: Hancock House, 1979)
Cover of the book, Folk Songs of Canada, by Edith Fowke and Richard Johnston, (Waterloo, ON: Waterloo Music Company Ltd., 1954)
Flyer for the CCF (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation) Woodsworth Foundation’s Songs of Democracy program of recorded folk songs prepared by Edith Fowke, held in Toronto on Sun April 20, 1952
Image of the United Jewish Peoples Order Folk Singers accompanied by a listing of some of the songs in their repertoire, as printed in the program from a UJPO Concert in Vancouver held on Oct 20, 1952
pages 1 and 4 of the program from the 1st Annual Concert by the United Jewish Peoples Order Youth Singers in Toronto on Feb 5, 1956
pages 2 and 3 of the program from the 1st Annual Concert by the United Jewish Peoples Order Youth Singers in Toronto on Feb 5, 1956
 
An excerpt from Jerry Gray’s Tour Diary from the United Jewish Peoples’ Order Youth Singers’ Western Canadian Tour in Oct 1952

An excerpt from Jerry Gray’s Tour Diary from the United Jewish Peoples’ Order Youth Singers’ Western Canadian Tour in Oct 1952. The left side lists audience attendance numbers at each of the shows and the right side lists the miles traveled.
Cover of the book, A Life on the Jewish Left: An Immigrant’s Experience, by Morris Biderman, (Toronto: Onward Publishing, 2000)
Ad for the 75th Anniversary of Camp Naivelt held Aug 6, 2000, as printed in the program from the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir’s 75th Anniversary Concert held Sunday, May 7, 2000 at Temple Sinai in Toronto
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