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Here's a ho! Vancouver B.C. Hilliam Permission to use this music has been granted by the copyright owner for educational and archival use only. Canadian Copyright Law must be respected by users of this site. Use of this material is restricted to those activities permitted by law. Users may not make multiple copies, distribute or sell this material without permission from the copyright holder. |
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B.C. Hilliam, aka Lloyd Holland was born in England and came to Canada in 1911. He is best known for his music and comedy with such troupes as The Smart Set and The Queries. After spending six years performing in New York he moved back to England. There in the 1920s and 30s he teamed up with bass Malcolm McEachern to form the team of Flotsam and Jetsam. There they enjoyed a 14 year partnership in performing witty and melodious music-hall type numbers. They appeared in variety, starred in London cabarets and made recordings. Hilliam also composed musical scores for The Belle of Burrard in which the hero's name was Stanley Park and Oh! Oh! Oh! Captain B which were performed at the old Avenue Theatre on Main Street. Here's a ho! Vancouver is the first piece that B.C. Hilliam published and credited this song to have changed his fortunes. In 1914, the American singer David Bispham was headlining at the Orpheum in Vancouver. Mr. Bispham chose to sing this song with B.C. Hilliam accompanying. After the first World War, Mr. Bispham fullfilled a promise to help B.C. Hilliam get started in New York. Pauline Johnson (aka Tekahionwake) wrote the words for this song. When she was subject of an anniversary, several of B.C. Hilliam's settings of her poems were never mentioned, much to his disappointment. Johnson is one of Canada's most celebrated poets. Born in 1861, her father was a Mohawk leader and her mother of British decent. Pauline was the first native poet to have her work published in Canada and was also a popular performer and gave recitals of her poetry across the country. She had a gift of combining her native and English cultures in her works. She published many works over her lifetime. The lyrics to this song is a setting of the poem "A Toast" which appears in her most successful publication Flint and Feather.
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