Track 8 Research Notes
From CCE wiki archived
- aka The Poor Little Girls of Ontario (FW 4005, collected by Fowke), A Poor Lone in Ontario, found sung to the tunes of “The Little Brown Jug” and “Yankee Doodle”
- began in Ontario in the 1880s, when the young men of Ontario were heading to Thunder Bay and Keewatin, (near Lake of the Woods), and Rapid City South Dakota; “My Dutchman lover, Hans Vitter Von Breut/So lame he could hardly hobble about/ he waved his hat with a hip hip hurray/ and now he’s settled in Thunder Bay” (4005)
- from 1905-outbreak of WWI – SK and AB saw greatest influx of settlers
- by the turn of the century, the lyrics changed to adapt to the young men going even further west – to “Manitobay”, Saskatchewan and Cariboo, BC.
- later the new frontier became the Peace River country, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories.
- All the men mentioned in the song were actual residents of the Regina Beach area at the time
- TCA – Trans Canada Airlines
- spliced - married
- info from Canada's Story in Song (book), Folksongs of SK liner notes and liner notes for FW 4005