Edith Fowke manuscript
Fowke, Edith
Music
Canadian Studies
Popular Culture
Sports and Recreation
Pioneers and Early Settlers
This 8-page, typewritten manuscript is entitled "Folk Songs of Peterborough" and consists of a brief overview of the folk song tradition of the Peterborough area. Fowke indicates that the Peterborough region is one of the richest in Ontario and credits this in large part to the significant Irish representation in the County. She mentions by name individuals who can sing old songs brought from the old country, or songs learned in the lumbering shanty and carried down from generation to generation. She quotes songs that give specific reference to places such as Kinmount, Omemee, Gannon's Narrows, Tory Hill, etc. Farming traditions, love ballads, and jail terms all find their places in the canon.
[1965]
1 manuscript
http://archives.trentu.ca/97-1016
97-1016
http://archives.trentu.ca/trent-university-archives
Trent University Archives
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