Credits

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The Fort Douglas Band, along with the Squamish Band, participated in the "Corpus Christi" celebration at the Squamish’s North Shore mission. Prior to their arrival at the mission the Fort Douglas band had provided entertainment to the citizens of New Westminster. It was suggested that the Douglas musicians be invited to play in the 1888 Dominion Day festivities, but this appears not to have been followed up.¹

1. News-Advertiser (Vancouver), June 20, 1888, p. 6.

Bailey and Neelands, City of Vancouver Archives, Out P426.

Fort Douglas Band c. 1889.

In 1890, the Fort Douglas Brass Band performed, along with four or five other bands, for the opening festivities of Our Lady of the Rosary in Sechelt.

Bailey and Neelands, City of Vancouver Archives, Out P426.

Fort Douglas Brass Band, along with the Sechelt and Lillooet Brass Bands. Other bands in the photograph may be the St. Mary's Mission band and the Squamish band, ca. 1890.

Author: Brian Stride (2012)