marry a log driver over his more well-to-do competitor. Driving logs down the river has made the young man the best dancing partner to be found. .
And now for the video
About the author/maker of "The log drivers waltz"
Wade Hemsworth grew up in Brantford, Ontario, and learned to play guitar and banjo as a youth. He graduated in 1939 from the Ontario College of Art, and then spent the Second World War in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was briefly stationed in Newfoundland, where he discovered traditional music. After the war, he worked as a surveyor in wilderness areas of Northern Ontario, Quebec and Labrador, a job which provided him with subject matter for many of his 20 original songs. He moved to Montreal in 1952, where he worked as a draftsman for the Canadian National Railway and performed in the city's folk music clubs at night.
http://freshwaterbay.blogspot.com/2007/05/heres-picture-of-my-grandfather-ronald.html
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Toronto Ont.
