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Harold Eustace Key was born in London in 1881. Key received his music degrees from the Guildhall School of Music and the Metropolitan School of Music, London, England. An accomplished concert and oratorio baritone, he was also a conductor, arranger, composer, and choirmaster. He was organist-choirmaster for several churches including the First Methodist Church in St. Thomas, Ont., churches in Dunnville and Brockville, Ont.,and St. James Church and Emmanuel Church in Montreal. He also founded the Elgar Women's Choir and the Mendelssohn Choir. Amongst his compositions are songs, part-songs, anthems and orchestral suites. Key's association with John Murray Gibbon includes directing the music for several of CPR Festivals in Vancouver, Banff, Winnipeg and Quebec. He also arranged the songs in Gibbon's Northland Songs John Murray Gibbon, born in Ceylon in 1875, was a graduate of Oxford University Literary School and later educated at Aberdeen, France and Germany. He came to Canada at the invitation of Sir Thomas Shaughnessy to take charge of publicity for the CPR for which he organized a number of festivals all involving Canadian musicians. As a writer, Gibbon wrote five novels and many non-fiction works including The Romance of the Canoe which analyzed the role the canoe played in the building of Canada. He was also an avid member of the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies. Spending time in front of long campfires in the evening gave Gibbon new songs and words to old ones that captured the spirit of Canadianism.
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