Paul Helmer’s Growing with Canada Collection consists of source material collected by Dr. Paul Helmer and used as background research for his monograph Growing with Canada: The émigré tradition in Canadian music, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2009. The collection consists of interview transcripts, biographical information, copies of immigration source material, audio recordings of the interviews, and photographs. The collection provides insight into the influence of European immigration on the Canadian musical landscape.
Dr. Paul Helmer (b. 1938) is a Canadian pianist and musicologist and a former associate professor of musicology at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University.
