Research by Stephen Johnson
From the Canada West website:
Welcome to the Fringes of Show Business in Canada West.
This project begins the process of creating a comprehensive on-line database of popular performance culture in Canada West (now 'southern Ontario') from its formative years prior to Confederation until just after World War One. Searching period newspapers, journals, and archives, it will record and make accessible information on a wide range of events, using a broad definition of the word performance--amateur and professional, resident and itinerant, narrative and variety, street performance and Grand Opera, church recitals and burlesque.
Click the following link to be redirected to the Canada West: Performance Culture in Southern Ontario database website.