English Country Dancing in Canada

This is a list of ECD groups in Canada for which I could find a more-or-less current web presence in March 2013.

Subsequent updates:

• 2017 Sept: add Toronto English Country Dance Assembly.
• 2022 April: add York Region English Country Dancers.
• 2024 January: subtract True North Music & Dance.
• 2026 July: correct the parenthetical for Village Green English Dancers.
• 2026 July: tweak description for A Trip to Ottawa.

Balls and weekend events organized by each group are shown in parentheses.

If you have better information, please let me know.

• British Columbia

  • Victoria: Victoria English Country Dance Society (Hands Across the Water each September; ball in March of odd years.)
  • Vancouver: Vancouver English Country Dance (Ball in April of even years.)

• Alberta

  • Calgary: Sprigged Muslin

• Saskatchewan

  None?

• Manitoba

  • Winnipeg: Village Green English Dancers (themed ball or weekend workshop every April)

• Ontario

  • London: True North Music and Dance (discontinued in 2019)
  • Kitchener-Waterloo: English Country Dancers of Kitchener-Waterloo [dead link?]
  • Clarksburg: Lord Grey's English Country Dance Society (Apple Blossom Ball every May?)
  • Hamilton: Hamilton English Country Dancers
  • Toronto: Toronto English Country Dancers
  • Toronto: Toronto English Country Dance Assembly (12 Dresses Ball every April)
  • Newmarket: York Region English Country Dancers
  • Peterborough: Peterborough English Country Dancers
  • Ottawa: Ottawa English Country Dance Club (A Trip to Ottawa each spring)
  • Spencerville: Spencerville English Country Dance Club [dead link?] (Regency Ball in May)

• Quebec

  • Montreal: English country dances in Montreal (Weekend in Old Sweetsburg each October?)

• New Brunswick

  None?

• Nova Scotia

  None?

• Prince Edward Island

  None?

• Newfoundland

  None?

List compiled by Michael Dyck.