Date: 1937

Origin: Photo & Text: James Lorimer: THE EX: A Picture History of the Canadian National Exhibition (Toronto: James Lewis & Samuel, Publishing, 1973) p.82

A demonstration of tap dancing by pupils of Nora S. Griffiths’s School of Dancing in the grand plaza by the Gooderham Fountain, 1937. Dancing groups competed with each other on Music Day at the CNE. Among the other schools were the Fanny Birdsall School of Dancing, Mosher Studios of Dance & Drama, Edith M. Giles School of Dancing and the Phyllis Hancock School of Dancing.