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The Canadian Pacific Railway Festivals, usually simplified to CPR Festivals, were a series of music and folk arts festivals sponsored by the
Canadian Pacific Railway The Canadian Pacific Railway (french: Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique) , also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadi ...
(CPR) between 1927 and 1931. The festivals were organized by the writer and publicist John Murray Gibbon who was the publicity agent for the CPR. The first of these festivals was the Canadian Folk Song and Handicraft Festival which was held in
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in 1927. That festival was revived in Quebec City in 1928 and then moved to
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in 1931. The CPR sponsored the Sea Music Festival which was held first in
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in 1929, and then in
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in 1930. Other festivals sponsored by the CPR included the Highland Gathering and Scottish Festival, the Old English Yuletide Festival, the Great West Canadian Folk-Dance, Folk-Song and Handicraft Festival, and the English Music Festival. The festivals were unusually progressive for the period in which they occurred.


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