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Posters, video tapes, cassettes, DVD, record albums, artifacts.
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1. Recordings by The Radio Four, c.1925
2. A Message from Our Leader (speech by Mackenzie King), August 1948
3. Canadian Poets 1, 1966
4. The Journals of Susanna Moodie, 1968
5. Tom Mason, Belleville Centennial recording, 1978
6. Hart & Soul 100 Years of Music, 1978 (John Logue and Dennis Baragar)
7. At Her Majesty's Mohawk Chapel, The Mohawk Singers, 1985
The Radio Four was a male quartet with members Dr. Allan Boyd Haffner, Arnold Thompson, Harry Moorman and Al Stillman, with accompanist Leo Riggs.
Leo Bates Riggs was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1879 to William Bates Riggs and Mary Riggs (nee Nelson). He studied piano and organ in Toronto under a variety of prominent masters. He was then appointed organist and director of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Belleville, Ontario. In 1901, he accepted a position as organist and director of the First Baptist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. In addition, he taught piano and organ at the Central College of Music in Indianapolis, Indiana. That same year, on August 28th, he married Mabel Kathleen Deguerre, a graduate of the Toronto Conservatory of Music. She was director of the Vocal Department of Albert College in Belleville, Ontario, and after their marriage she joined her husband on the staff of the Central College of Music, in Indianapolis, Indiana, teaching voice. In 1903, their only child, Leona Riggs, was born.
In 1909, the family moved to New York City where Leo Bates Riggs became chief organist and director of music at the Astor Hotel. He performed in concerts throughout New York, and was among the first organ artists to be broadcast over the radio station WBC, New York.
In 1924, he and his wife returned to Belleville, Ontario so that he could assist his ailing father, William Bates Riggs, in his automobile business. For many years, Leo Bates Riggs successfully maintained the Riggs Garage until his retirement in 1954.
Continuing his musical career in Belleville, Leo Bates Riggs became the organist at John the Baptist Church until it burned down in 1936. Leo Bates Riggs also preformed for many Belleville clubs and organizations, as well as belonging to the Rotary Club, and the Kiwanis Club. He was also the president of the Chamber of Commerce, in Belleville, Ontario, for a brief period of time.
Leo Bates Riggs died at his summer residence in St. Petersburg, Florida on January 23rd, 1956, and was buried in the city of Belleville, Ontario.
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Record labels read:
"Melotone Electrically Recorded
Male Quartet
That Beautiful Land (White-Jones)
The Radio Four (Of Belleville, Ont.)
Leo B. Riggs, Director
21675-A
Compo Co. Limited, Lachine, Montreal, Canada"
"Melotone Electrically Recorded
Male Quartet
Open Up The Gates of Glory (Geibel)
The Radio Four (Of Belleville, Ont.)
Leo B. Riggs, Director
21675-B
Compo Co. Limited, Lachine, Montreal, Canada"
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Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyon_Mackenzie_King
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Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation
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Recordings of Canadian poets reading their work, with sleeve notes by Robert McCormack. The poets included are:
1. Phyllis Webb
2. Earle Birney
3. John Newlove
4. Alfred [Al] Purdy
5. Irving Layton
6. Leonard Cohen
7. George Browning
8. Gwendolyn MacEwen
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This recording has the following poets and poems:
1. Phyllis Webb
1. Alex
2. Rilke
3. Sitting
4. The Time of Man
5. Propositions
6. Breaking
7. Naked Poems, Suite One and Suite Two
2. Earle Birney
1. Anglosaxon Street
2. Ellesmereland I
3. Ellesmereland II
4. Appeal to a Lady with a Diaper
5. Sestina for Tehauntepec
6. Transistor
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This recording has the following poets and poems:
1. John Newlove
1. Kamsack 3 (The Dog)
2. It Just Lay There
3. For Judith
4. The Pride
2. Alfred Purdy
1. Percy Lawson
2. Song of the Impermanent Husband
3. Home-made Beer
4. Winter at Roblin Lake
5. The Winemaker's Beat Etude
6. Wilderness Gothic
7. O Recruiting Sergeants!
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This recording has the following poets and poems:
1. Irving Layton
1. Mrs Fornheim, Refugee
2. First Snow Lake Achagan
3. The Birth of Tragedy
4. Song for Naomi
5. Golfers
6. The Bull Calf
7. On Seeing the Statuettes
8. Keine Lazarovich, 1870-1959
9. El Caudillo
2. Leonard Cohen
1. What I'm Doing Here
2. You Have the Lovers
3. Now of Sleeping
4. Style
5. Two Went to Sleep
6. Nothing Has Been Broken
7. These Heroics
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This recording has the following poets and poems:
1. George Bowering
1. Grandfather
2. Moonshadow
3. Breaking Up, Breaking Out
4. The Descent
2. Gwendolyn MacEwen
1. The Garden of Square Roots
2. Thou Jacob
3. The Thing Is Violent
4. Arcanum One
5. Arcanum Two
6. Arcanum Three
7. The Caravan
8. The Self Assumes
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation
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Recording of Mia Anderson reading Margaret Atwood's poems, *The Journals of Susanna Moodie*.
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