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. (Updated Sept 2017 to add Toronto English Country Dance Assembly.) (Updated April 2022 to add York Region English Country Dancers.)

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 (Beltane Ball in April of odd years)

• Ontario

  • London: True North Music and Dance (English Dance Weekend each March?)
  • Kitchener-Waterloo: English Country Dancers of Kitchener-Waterloo
  • 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 November)
  • Spencerville: Spencerville English Country Dance Club (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.