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The Nova Scotia Song : Conversations with Helen Creighton

Accession number: 
1987.0001
Production Years: 
1987

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Length (minutes): 
23
Holding Institutions: 

York University, Toronto, Ontario: 16mm.
"Helen Creighton has preserved a great number of Nova Scotian folksongs from half a century of collecting, including the well popularized 'Farewell to Nova Scotia'. This witty, nostalgic and informative women, now in her 80's is interviewed."

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University of Waterloo Audiovisual Services Catalog.
"For over a half a century Helen Creighton travelled throughout the Maritime provinces collecting over 4000 folksongs and ghost stories. She has published several collections of lore, folk songs and is credited with discovering FAREWELL TO NOVA SCOTIA, the province's unofficial anthem. Now an octogenarian, regarded with universal affection and respect at home and abroad, Dr Creighton looks over her career full of incident and anecdote."