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The Halifax Camerata Singers, an auditioned ensemble of dedicated singers from across Nova Scotia, is Atlantic Canada's leading chamber choir. Founded in 1986 by Artistic Director Jeff Joudrey, the choir performs an extensive repertoire covering all periods and styles. Camerata has a reputation for performance excellence that sets a high standard, even in a province known for its rich musical tradition. In the 2010 National Competition for Canadian Amateur Choirs, Camerata was awarded the prestigious Healey Willan Prize for best overall performance and placed first in the chamber choir category. The choir frequently commissions choral music from Canadian and international composers. Camerata also is proud to encourage young singers through its Youth Mentoring Program, Nova Scotia Youth Choir bursaries, a Young Composer’s Competition, and Camerata Xara Young Women’s Choir.

Established in 1973, we have grown to become a leading dance training organization east of Montreal. We offer recreational classes to children, teens and adults, as well as pre-professional and professional dance training for all ages. We offer support for local and visiting professional artists and companies and produce local and touring performances. Located in bright, beautiful studios in the Maritime Centre, we currently engage over 30 dance instructors and accompanists and offer over 140 dance and fitness classes per week, year round. Halifax Dance is recognized nationally for the high calibre of training that our instructors, choreographers and performing professionals provide to our students. Many of our alumni go on to university dance training programs and professional dance company schools. Halifax Dance is home to the Young Company and numerous professional Companies-in-Residence.

Kin Canada Bursaries (which is a program of the Hal Rogers Endowment Fund) are open to all Canadian citizens and landed immigrants who are attending (or planning to attend) a recognized post-secondary school/institution. All applicants must complete the current application and submit it to the Kinsmen, Kinette, or Kin club nearest their permanent residence by Feb. 1. Bursaries are awarded based on financial need; community and volunteer involvement; and knowlege of / experience with Kinsmen and Kinettes and Kin Canada.

Our Guiding Principles: Human life begins at conception. The right to life is the most basic human right on which all other rights depend. Society’s most fundamental responsibility and obligation is to recognize and protect the sanctity and worth of every human life from conception to natural death. We support only peaceful means to promote our message.

The HSSM is a charitable, not-for-profit organization registered with the Canada Revenue Agency and governed by a Board of Governors made up of elected teachers, parents and interested community members. The Board sets policies and governs the general operations of the School. There is also a Parents’ Association, of which all parents of HSSM students are members, which organizes parent meetings, fund raising and other special events. The HSSM Faculty is comprised of professional musicians, all of whom are highly qualified and Suzuki-trained. All HSSM teachers are members of the Suzuki Association of the Americas. We strive to develop children’s natural love of music and to nurture musical talents for personal enjoyment in a rewarding and vibrant learning environment.

Since 1923, Hashomer Hatzair Canada has been working with youth to build community, progressive Jewish values, links to Israel, youth leadership and life-long friendships. Hashomer Hatzair provides the highest quality youth-led informal education, enabling its youth members to take full responsibility for their education, culture, principles and active community participation. Through year-round programming and summer activities at Camp Shomria, each age group, led by youth leaders, learns and grows together in a setting that promotes and models youth leadership, individual excellence, mutual responsibility, social, environmental, and economic justice, respect and cooperation.

The Trust has also promoted the need for heritage preservation legislation in Nova Scotia, and provides input on legislative policy at the municipal and provincial levels. Through research reports, the Trust has facilitated heritage designation of more than 100 buildings throughout the province.

Hillfield Strathallan College is the product of two founding schools, the oldest of which has served Hamilton and its surrounding communities since the turn of the century. In 1962, Hillfield College for boys, and Strathallan College for girls, amalgamated on the present campus; the College became fully co-educational in the mid-seventies. The College is organized into three divisions. The Early Education division includes both Montessori and Junior Schools which take the child up to age nine in an integrated program; the Middle division encompasses Grades 5-8 in an integrated program with some subject specialization; and the Senior division offers a comprehensive 9-12 program which includes Ministry of Education requirements in its design.

Her Majesty’s Chapel of the Mohawks is the oldest Protestant church in Ontario. We invite you to visit this historic site, and experience its peaceful, spiritual atmosphere.

For the past forty years, the Home County Folk League has produced an outdoor summer music & arts/crafts festival in Victoria Park, a beautiful heritage park in downtown London, ON. The 41st edition of the festival will take place July 18/19/20, 2014. The festival is free to the public, although donations from festival-goers are highly encouraged through our Admission By Donation program. The festival site is readily accessible to the public with paved walkways and public washrooms. This year we feature a concert stage, 2 workshop stages, a children’s stage and a community open stage that run from noon – 6 pm on Saturday and Sunday. Evening main-stage concerts at the Kiwanis Memorial band-shell run from 6 pm –11 pm on Friday & Saturday, and 6 pm – 9:00 pm on Sunday. The public can wander through 120+ juried craft Canadian artisans and the 30+ food vendors from a variety of global cultures.

The Homer Watson House & Gallery is the homestead of Homer Watson, Canada's first noted landscape artist (1855-1936). The Gallery, constructed in 1906, is one of the oldest operating galleries in the Province of Ontario. Watson's early Victorian house was also the home of the renowned Doon School of Fine Arts during the 1950's and 60's and drew such artists as Fred Varley and Carl Schaefer. In 1955, the Homer Watson house was officially recognized by National Historic Sites and Monuments of Canada. In 1980, the house and surrounding three acre property were designated under the Ontario Heritage Act as being of architectural and historic significance. Today the Gallery operates as a thriving visual arts centre where the community is encouraged to develop, discover, and enjoy visual arts through changing exhibits, educational programs, special events and workshops. The Gallery operated on Watson's philosophy that "Art after all is for the people and not for the few".

The Huntsman has been an active steward of the ocean resource by finding ways to educate citizens about the oceans for the past 40 years. The education programs of the Huntsman have been pioneering; knowledge-based activities that have influenced the development of highly qualified personnel in the marine sciences and the oceans industry sector of the Canadian economy. The hands-on school programs have engaged over 35,000 students - ranging from elementary school age to university graduate level. For many, it is their first introduction to the Canadian Atlantic region.