The history of music in Canada ordered cronollogicaly most of the information was taken from Wikipedia and details and pictures taken from different sites

2. Influences
• The music of Canada has many influences that
have shaped the country
Aboriginals
The French 17th Century
The British 19th Century
America; because their proximity and immigration
between the two countries

3. Aboriginals
Inuit and Dene
Iroquois
Blackfoot
Innu and Mi'kmaq
Huron
West Coast
Salish and
Haida

4. Instruments 1
• animal horns into rattles

5. Instruments 2
• In woodland areas, they made horns of birch
bark

6. Instruments 3
• drumsticks of carved antlers and wood
sometimes covered with animal hide

7. Instruments 4
gourds
• Chanting was the most popular way of singing.
• These musical instruments provide the background
for songs and led to aboriginal dances.
• For many years after Europeans came to Canada; first
Nations and Inuit peoples were discouraged from
practicing their traditional ceremonies.

8. • Canada and North America was temporarily and partially colonized
by the French and “New France” was the name given by the
French to this area during a period beginning with the exploration
of the Saint Lawrence River by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending
with the cession of New France to Spain and Great Britain in 1763.
New
France

9. French settlers and explorers to New France brought with them a great
love of song, dance and fiddle playing.
Beginning in the 1630s French and Aboriginal children at Quebec
City were taught to sing and play European instruments,
like viols, violins, guitars, transverse flutes, drums, fifes and trumpets.
Ecole des Ursulines and The Ursuline Convent are among North America's
oldest schools and the first institutions of learning for women in North
America.
Both where founded in 1639 by French nunMarie de l'Incarnation (1599–
1672) and are the first Canadian institutions to have music as part of the
curriculum.
Canada, New France first formal ball was given by Louis-Théandre
Chartier de Lotbinière (1612–1688) on Feb 4 1667.
Louis Jolliet (1645–1700) is on record as one of the first
classically trained practicing musicians in New France.

10. The French and Indian Wars began and left the population
economically drainedprinting did not begin in Canadacultural pursuits
Music publishing and and ill-equipped to develop until the 19th
properly.
century.
Historically, music was composed in Canada's colonies and
Canadian composers were not able to focus on creating new music in
settlements during the made their living of teaching and leading
these years, most of them18th century, but very few works have
small orchestras oreven published.
survived or were choirs
Canada's first wildly published sheet music are two operas written in
late 18th century by New France composer, poet, and playwright Joseph
Quesnel (1746–1809).
In the late 18th century two new instruments “the diatonic
harmonica” and “the button accordion” make their appearance in folk-
music tradition. God Save the Queen has been sung in Canada since
British rule and by the mid-20th century was, along with "O
Canada", one of the country's two de facto national anthems.

11. French yielded most part of New France to Spain and Great Britain in
1763. with the Treaty of Utrecht.
Then France ceded the rest of New France, except the islands of St.
Pierre and Miquelon, to Great Britain and Spain at the Treaty of Paris,
which ended the Seven Years War with the Indians.
Britain received the lands east of the Mississippi River, and Spain
received the territory to the west - the larger portion of Louisiana-.
In 1800, Spain returned its portion of Louisiana to France under the
secret Treaty of San Ildefonso, but French leader Napoleon
Bonaparte sold it to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803,
permanently ending French colonial efforts in North America.

12. (1880) "O Canada" was commissioned by
The Great Migration to Canada from 1815Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, the
the to 1850 by
British and Scottish immigrants, broadened passage of the British North
Canadian musical Canadian music1867,Honourable Théodore Robitaille (1834–1897), for
considerably the
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1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1890
Appeared the earliest musical societies Halifaxs "New Union
Singing Society" of 1809 andIn the 1870s several conservatories opened their doors,
Quebec's "Harmonic Society" of
1820 providing the opportunity for any class level of society to
learn music.
1844 Samuel Nordheimer opened a music store
in Toronto selling pianos and soon his store was
among the first and the largest specialized music
publisher in the Province of Canada

13. • Most recordings purchased by Canadians in the early 19’s
were made by American and British performers,
• Behind some of these international hits were Canadian
songwriters. Robert Nathaniel Dett (one of the first Black
Canadian composers during the early years of the
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)

14. • In 1925, the Canadian Performing Rights Society was
formed to administer public performance
and royalties for composers and lyricists.
• It became known as the Composers, Authors and
Publishers Association of Canada (CAPAC).
• During the great depression in Canada, the majority of
people listened to what today would be
called swing (Jazz) just as country was starting its roots

15. 1939 to 1959 appeared
Canadian Rock and blues
• 1958 first Canadian rock and roll idol Paul Anka went to New
York City where he auditioned for ABC with the song, Diana.
• This song brought Anka instant stardom as it reached number
one on the US Billboard charts.

16. • US-born rockabilly pioneer Ronnie Hawkins came to
Canada in 1958, where he became a key player in
the Canadian blues and rock scene.
• Ronnie was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame and his
pioneering contribution to rockabilly has been
recognized with induction into the Rockabilly Hall of
Fame.

17. 1960–1999
Canadian artists were forced to turn toward the United States to
establish healthy long lasting careers during the 1960s
On January 18, 1971 regulations came into force requiring AM
radio stations to devote 30 per cent of their musical selections to
Canadian content which contributed to the development of a
nascent Canadian pop star system
The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences held the
first Juno Award ceremony in 1975
in 1984 and 1986, both English and French Canadian musicians
had outlets to promote all forms of music through video in
Canada
Canadian women at the end of the 20th century enjoyed greater
international commercial success than ever before

18. 21 st Century
• The 1971 CRTC rules (30% Canadian content on Canadian radio) led
to an explosion in the 21st century of Canadian pop musicians
dominating the airwaves unlike any era before.
• Shortly thereafter, the Internet allowed musicians to directly
distribute their music, thus bypassing the selection of the old-
fashioned "record label".
• Canada's main stream music industry has suffered as a result of the
internet and the boom of independent music.

19. • The drop in annual sales between 1999 – 2004 was
$465 million.
• Because Napster's unauthorized peer-to-peer file
sharing service was launched
• In 2007, Canada joined the controversial Anti-
Counterfeiting Trade Agreement talks, whose
outcome will have a significant impact on the
Canadian music industry.
• In 2010 Canada introduced new copyright
legislation. The amended law makes hacking digital
locks illegal, but enshrine into law the ability of
purchasers to record and copy music from a CD to
portable devices.