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Music was also considered appmpria‘te
for a public park. Although We board had
experimented with giant plfimoghphs and
speakers, {Eh-airman Stave] favoured live
band mmerts, even an Sundays. Same peo-
ple, he said, wouldl mt appmve of Sunday
concerts but he believed they were a Virtual
necessity, “It wauld be a great gain if the
crowd of young men who mam up and
down Partage avenue and Main street amid
be carried from these streets an Sundays tn
the park where pmperly superviged concerts
were giwazrm.”M Nuns of me programs fat
than cancel-ts have survived buf: since mili-

tary and pipe bands predominated in Win-
nipeg at that tima, it 553‘s likely that they pm-
vidted sis; 1e fare. Fur example, the 13314 sea-
son uf anti cancerts featured the 79th
Camerun Highlanders Band, fihe Iflflth
Grenadiers Band, the 106th Winnipeg Light
Infantry Band, the Citizen’s Band and the
Winnipeg Highland Cadet’s Pipe Band. In.
that season, the Ward had allecated $5,000
for music and had not been able to apend the
full allocation,” Reading was another pas-
time of which Champion heartily approved.
He suggested that a branch of the city library
could be located in the pafilian of Afisini-
Emma Park during the summer months. In

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