Although first published in New Brunswick in 1801, this "singing school" book of hymns would have been available to singers in Upper Canada in the early 1800s. Ontario's first homegrown words-and-music hymn book was "The Colonial Harmonist: which appeared...
When I was a kid, my dad who was from Binbrook, Ontario took me to the former site of an old mill near there, and sang me a few lines from an old song. It was "When You And I Were Young, Maggie". The words to this song was written Hamilton area school tea...
