File also includes a clipping about Ellen Ballon's agent, Andrew Schulhof, and a ticket for a performance at Plateau Hall in Montreal featuring Ellen Ballon performing Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto with the CBC Symphony Orchestra.
File contains a letter from Yehudi Menuhin to Ellon Ballon written on December 2, 1957. The letter concerns a performance by Ellen Ballon in Montreal. Item is accompanied by the Ritz Carlton Montreal envelope in which Ballon received the letter.
Lt. Colonel Sidney Oland is 5th from left in the front row. Lt. Colonel Oland commanded the 66th Field Artillery unit in WW1. The photograph was taken by Victor Trower, Montreal.
File contains letters concerning Ellen Ballon's performance of music by Heitor Villa-Lobos and the receipt of flowers. File also contains a letter to Ballon from Mary Goldie, Private Secretary to Princess Alice, concerning a letter from the latter and Lord Athlone to Dr. James (presumably Frank Cyril James) at the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the McGill Conservatorium of Music.
File contains a photograph of Douglas Clarke (Dean of the Faculty of Music at McGill University from 1930 to 1955), Ellen Ballon, Frank Cyril James (Principal and Vice Chancellor of McGill University from 1939 until 1962), and an unknown man, standing in front of three microphones for radio stations: CKVL, CFCF, and CKAC. The photograph may have been taken at one of the concerts celebrating the 50th anniversary of the McGill Conservatorium.
File contains a framed reproduction of the front cover of The McGill News (Winter 1954), featuring Ellen Ballon and the Canadian operatic soprano Pauline Donalda receiving their honorary doctorates. The photograph is in black and white but the banner for the magazine is in colour.
File contains a photograph of Frank Cyril James (Principal and Vice Chancellor of McGill University from 1939 until 1962), standing in front of three microphones for radio stations: CKVL, CFCF, and CKAC. The photograph may have been taken at one of the concerts celebrating the 50th anniversary of the McGill Conservatorium.
File contains three letters from Frank Cyril James to Ellen Ballon concerning her performances and the conferral of an honorary degree by McGill to her.
File includes "Concerning ore-shoot," by G. Vibert Douglas and C. K. Howse; "Further notes concerning ore-shoots," by G. Vibert Douglas and E.P. Sheppard; "Thirty-fourth annual report of the Ontario Department of Mines: the Whiskey Lake Area (District of Algoma) and La Cloche Area (District of Sudbury," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Topography and geology of South Georgia," by George Vibert Douglas; "Zavodovskii Island and notes on rock fragments dredged in the Weddell Sea," by George Vibert Douglas and W. Campbell Smith; "Topography and geology of the Tristan Da Cunha group," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Ore-shoots in the gold fields of Nova Scotia," by G. Vibert Douglas, C.O. Campbell, and N.R. Goodman; "On an occurrence of nickeliferous pyrrhotite in Nova Scotia," by G. Vibert Douglas and R. L. Milner; "Further notes on a field-test for gold," by G. Vibert Douglas and R.E. Pearce; "A field test for gold," by G. Vibert Douglas and Norman B. Gillies; "On the theory of continental drift," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Some features of mining geology," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Province of Quebec, Department of Mines and Fisheries: advance report on the geology of Bruneau Township and surrounding area," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Preliminary experiments in mountain-building," by G. Vibert Douglas and Geddes Webster; "Province of Quebec, Department of Mines and Maritime Fisheries: geological report no. 8, Eustis-mine area Ascot Township," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Prospecting," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Xenoliths and contacts near Halifax, Nova Scota," by G. Vibert Douglas and Elizabeth Wellington; "Note on the origin of the Gut of Canso and the Bras d'Or Lakes," by G. Vibert Douglas and J. W. D. Johnston; "Vein filling," by G. Vibert Douglas; "The structure of Ungava," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Recent ideas on mountain-building," by George Vibert Douglas; "An analysis of downpunching," by H.S. Heaps, presented by G. Vibert Douglas; and "Mineralization in Northern Rhodesia," by G. Vibert Douglas.
File contains a letter from Walter de Mouilpied to Ellen Ballon, written on September 30, 1952. The letter thanks Ballon for a performance she gave at an honorary dinner. Item is accompanied by the stamped envelope in which Ballon received the letter. The postage stamp has been removed from the envelope.
File is a manuscript with three numbered pieces by Alfred La Liberté: "Pensée Tendre" (D-flat Major), dedicated to Katherine Sneed; "Prière (Choral)" (D Major), dedicated to Marcel Dupré; and "Dance-Song" (b minor).
File contains a map of Port Burwell and approaches, including Forbes Sound, Killinek Island, and Jackson Island. The map shows the soundings in fathoms for this area.
File contains a clipping of an article by Philip Cook from the Montreal Daily Star entitled "Contemporary Music is not Given a Chance." The article includes mention of Ellen Ballon and Heitor Villa-Lobos' Piano Concerto No. 1.
File includes a program for Ellen Ballon's concert with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ernest Ansermet. The file also includes a catalogue Londoof London Records, including Ballon's recording of Heitor Villa-Lobos' Piano Concerto No. 1 with Ansermet.
File contains newspaper clippings that mention Ellen Ballon. Topics range from concert reviews, her favourite recipes, lifestyle, the death of her mother (Charlotte Ballon, nee Klein), and her contributions during the Second World War. One of the articles reports on her premiere performance in Rio de Janeiro of Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto.
File contains correspondence between Thomas Cantley and persons including Sam Hughes, Robert Drummond, Justice Harris, Brandram & Henderson Limited, Baron Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Alan Dawson, George Grant, Maximilian Groten, R.H. Graham, Rev. J.A. Greenlees, Mrs. J.D. Fife, L.M. Fortier, Osborne Holmden, Harold C.E. Spence, E.M. MacDonald, R.B Bennett, A.J. Crockett, L.H. MacKenzie, A.M. Ferguson, J.E. Nutter, A. Andrew Merrilees, Perry F. Rockwood, James T. Thompson, and F.A. Harrison.
File contains typescript and handwritten poems by Joyce Barkhouse: "Hostess" (unpublished); "The Happy Clam" (unpublished); "The Chickadee"; "Nostalgia" (rewrite); "Annapolis" (published posthumously in "Whispers of Mermaids and Wonderful Things," 2017); "The Shades of Night" (written at age 15); "Vengeance" (unpublished); "Little Hunter" (unpublished); "Snow" (published); "A Winter Prayer"; "The Frightened Witch" (published); "Little Hunter"; "First Pet"; and "After School." The file also includes a copy of "Obedience" by Isaac Watts (1674-1748).
File contains the issue vol. I, No. 3 of the McGill University periodical. File includes a letter possibly addressed to Ronald St. John Macdonald's father.
File contains a photograph of "The Three Bares" sculpture (also known as the "Friendship Fountain"), which was given to McGill University by its creator, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, as a show of goodwill between the United States and Canada. Ellen Ballon met Whitney while in New York and reportedly suggested the donation of the sculpture. It was presented to the university in 1931 by New York Times editor John Finley in 1931.
One young boy seated on a small table with his hands clasped around the knee of a leg raised on a small chair, facing to the side; full pose. Print from Nitrate Negative: 29-263
One young boy standing behind and at the height of one man who is seated, holding his hands over his shoulders; bust. Print from Nitrate Negative: 29-263
File contains correspondence with persons including Charles Hibbert Tupper, D.B. Dowling, Wyatt Malcolm, J.R. Macgregor, J.B. Noble, and Guy H. Kirkpatrick.
File contains a copy of Le Canada Musical, Volume 4, Number 24, published in 1921. The magazine is autographed by Canadian organist and composer Benoit F. Poirier.
File contains two photographs of the operatic soprano Esther Ferrobini of the Montreal Opera Company that John Daniel Logan used for a press release about her performance in the title role of the opera "Zoza."
File contains a letter from the artist Louis Keene (1888-1972) thanking John Daniel Logan for a notice that he put in the Montreal Herald advertising his upcoming exhibition.
File contains programs from concerts by Clara Butt and Kennerley Rumford, from their tour of Canada in 1914. File also contains a newspaper clipping with comments from Clara Butt on their Canadian tour and the state of music in Canada. The article mentions performances in Toronto, the Arena in Montreal, and in Vancouver.
File contains three photographs of the opera singer Christie MacDonald of the Montreal Opera Company. One of the photographs shows her in costume for "The Spring Maid" by Heinrich Reinhardt, and another in costume as Marguerite for the "Jewel Song" in "Faust" by Charles Gounod for the Montreal Opera Company.
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