About the event Modern coronations are carefully rehearsed, but not 1838′s. Only Victoria and one Westminster Abbey official came prepared for the five-hour event. Clergymen skipped pages in the complicated program, in one case dismissing Victoria from the abbey too early; an elderly lord tripped on the slippery steps in …
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Alan John Park, a long-time member of the Royal Canadian Air Farce comedy troupe, has died. Park died Thursday at the age of 60, eight years after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Born in Scarborough, Ont., Park spent most of his life making people laugh across Canada. The comedian …
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Canadian concert pianist Stewart Goodyear has been appointed the Royal Conservatory of Music’s first ever artist in residence.STUART LOWE/RCM The Canadian concert pianist Stewart Goodyear has upcoming concerts with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Nov. 5 and 6) and in Toronto, where, on Nov. 27 at Koerner Hall, he’ll perform the …
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