 Wilfred Woolhouse 1920- 2005 Admin Note: I lived in Alberta for a year, and during the winter of 2002, in the early stages of my research, discovered that Wilfred Woolhouse was living in a retirement home in Lethbridge, not far from me. I arranged to meet him and spent a lovely afternoon listening to him reminisce. I gratefully acknowledge his kindness in supplying these news clippings and photos for inclusion on the site. Mr. Woolhouse passed away not long afterward, on February 3, 2005. Mr. Woolhouse was a student of Marcel Dupre. He was just 17 in 1937 when he was appointed as organist in Knox United Church, Saskatoon. He would have been 25 years old when he played the opening recital on Casavant 1775. Click on the first image to start the slideshow, images will enlarge. |
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This is the story of a boy who loved pipe organs - "the sound of the soul."
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One day the boy saw an article and a picture of a pipe organ built by the students in the technical shop of a school in England. They used a book called "How to Build a Two Manual Pipe Organ" by H.F. Milne. -
Letter from F.A. Anderson
Winnipeg January 31, 1961Dear Stuart,
A few evenings ago, a scotchman went across the TV screen with his bagpipes and I thought of you and the times that you used to do the same in the old Grace church when the organ was being taken down.
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Casavant Freres Ltd.,St. Hyacinthe, P.Q.
Dear Sirs: Re. # 301, Grace Church, Winnipeg, 1907
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This instrument became my property in 1955, and was erected in a music room built for it on my farm home in Kindersley, Saskatchewan, in 1963. In 1979 I moved it to a specially built room added to my house in Victoria, where it is in almost daily use by students and others.
Specifications
Casavant 301's specifications in 1907, 1960, 1964 and 2000. Read more...
