![]() ![]() Musical activities of an occasional kind continued in the 20th century but - perhaps because Toronto was so near - organizations giving regular concerts did not flourish until later. In the 19th century balls and stage entertainments were held at Temperance Hall, Town Hall, and Commins' Music Hall (1894-8). ![]() A choir was organized ca 1868 at the Canada Presbyterian Church. In 1857 music instruction was offered at the Oakville Ladies' Academy, and around that time a pipe organ, built by Oakville resident Richard Coates, was installed at St Jude's Anglican Church and carried on in use when a new building was erected in 1883. The brass players then formed the Oakville Citizens' Band (brass), later called the Oakville Concert Band, which performed thereafter at important town functions and continued to do so in 1990. A regimental brass band was formed in 1866 by the 20th Halton Battalion Infantry but was supplanted in 1881 by the infantry's Lorne Rifles Pipe Band. Town founded in 1825 on Sixteen Mile Creek at Lake Ontario, between Toronto and Hamilton. An aerial view of Oakville Harbour, Oakville, Ontario (courtesy Aerocamera Services). ![]()
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