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Winifred Bambrick


Born
in Ottawa, Canada
February 21, 1892

Died
April 11, 1969


Winifred Estella Bambrick was a Canadian classical musician and novelist.

Born in Ottawa, Ontario and raised in Chelsea, Quebec, Bambrick made her debut as a harpist at New York City's Aeolian Hall on October 22, 1913. The following year, she recorded a number of selections for Edison Records' Diamond Disc series. She subsequently played in John Philip Sousa's band from 1920 to 1930,and then spent the 1930s performing as a solo artist and with a circus orchestra in Europe.

Her experience in Europe, which coincided with the events that would lead to World War II, inspired the novel Continental Revue, which was published in 1946 and won that year's Governor General's Award for English language fiction. Her second novel, The Lasting Spring<>/i,
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