Elizabeth Hannum was born in 1861 in Ontario. She married Brigadier General Richard Alexis Helmer (1865-1920). Their son, Alexis Hannum Helmer (1892-1915) was a friend of John McCrae, and part of the inspiration for the poem In Flanders Fields.
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Dr. Paul Helmer is a Canadian pianist and musicologist, and a former associate professor of musicology at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University. Born October 18, 1938 in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Paul Helmer’s principal piano teachers were Alberto Guerrero and Béla Böszörmeny-Nagy. He holds a certificate in piano performance from the University of Toronto (A.Dip. ’58), a Bachelor of Arts in German from the University of Toronto (B.A. ’66), as well as two degrees in historical musicology from the ColumbiaUniversity (M.A. ’68, Ph.D. ’75). An accomplished performer, Dr. Helmer made his debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at the age of fifteen, and has since appeared with numerous Canadian orchestras. He participated in the Canadian premieres of Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie (1964) and Boulez’ Structures for Piano, Book II (1966, with Bruce Mather), as well as the North American premiere of Ivan Wyschnegradsky’s Premier Fragment Symphonique, Étude sur les mouvements rotatoires, and the world premieres of John Weinzweig’s Piano Concerto (1966) and Istvan Anhalt’s La Tourangelle (1975). Dr. Helmer has collaborated with Cathy Berberian, Victor Braun, Angèle Dubeau, Rivka Golan and Moshe Hammer, as well as the Orford String Quartet, the Tudor Singers of Montreal, the Elmer Iseler Singers, and the Festival Wind Soloists. He has also made numerous recordings for CBC radio and television. Dr. Helmer’s research interests include medieval music – specifically Western liturgical chant – and the influence of European immigration on the musical landscape of Canada. He published an edition of Le Premier et le secont livre de Fauvel (1997), a reconstruction of the twelfth-century mass Missa Sancti Iacobi (1988), and the monograph, Growing with Canada: The Émigré Tradition in Canadian Music (2009).
A native of Nova Scotia, Joyce Hemlow was educated at Queen's University (B.A. 1941, M.A. 1942) and at Radcliffe College (A.M. 1944, Ph.D. 1948). She has taught English literature at McGill since 1945, and in 1965 became Greenshields Professor of English. Though she has taught the whole range of English Renaissance and 18th century literature, Hemlow's main research interest is the novelist and diarist Fanny Burney. In 1958 she published a biography, The History of Fanny Burney and in 1971, A Catalogue of the Burney Family Correspondence. Since 1962, Hemlow has headed a large research project to edit the Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay), 1791-1840 (Oxford, 1972-). For the Burney Project, see Record Group 82.
Henry Hemming was born on November 30, 1819, in London, England.
He arrived in Canada in 1852. He was a civil servant, accountant, and bookkeeper at Canada's Secretary Office of the Grand Trunk Railway Company in Montreal, Quebec.
In 1848, he married Clarissa Hemming (1820–1894). He died on January 17, 1903, in Toronto, Ontario.
Hemmingford is situated in Huntingdon County, about 64 km south of Montréal and 6 km north of the U.S. border. Formerly known as Scrivers Corners, after an early settler, it took its present name from a village in Huntingdonshire, England.
