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A praiseful short biography of Horace Wilson's training and achievements.

"L'Intransigeant", an opera by Amédée Tremblay and Rémi Tremblay, played at Le Monument National in June 1906. This may have been the premier.

The music for “Let’s All Go To the Franklin” was published in the Ottawa Journal as part of“Franklin Week” in September 1929.

A descriptive article discussing silent film music practices and musicians at several Ottawa theatres.

Drawing of the planned Imperial Theatre published during its construction in November 1913. The cinema would open on August 24, 1914.

An advertisement for Basil Horsfall’s “Operafilm,” a combination of live costumed opera singers alongside an on-screen dramatisation, which later appeared in Winnipeg, Calgary, and Salem after its initial presentation in Ottawa.

One of several notices of the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra's repertoire found in the North American music trade journal,The Metronome. Notices for the Chateau Laurier Orchestra can also be found in this journal.

An article describing the Russell's successful April 1920 prologuePolyanna at the Court of Happiness, which preceded showings of the Mary Pickford filmPollyanna.

Pictures of the communal prologue (theatre and music production) of Pollyanna at the Court of Happinessthat preceded showings of the Mary Pickford filmPolyanna at the Russell Theatre in April 1920.

"Passion Play" shown "In Colored Moving Pictures" at the Monument National along with a "special Musical Programme" in 1908.