Indigenous B.C. treaties, recordings added to Canada’s first UNESCO memory register

A Canadian Press story mentioned Ida Halpern, a former UBC instructor, in a story about a ceremony that added recordings of traditional First Nations’ songs to Canada’s national memory register.

Halpern, who travelled to remote West Coast villages to record Indigenous music, taught music appreciation courses at UBC.

The CP story appeared in the Globe and MailMetro News, Times Colonist, and Surrey Now-Leader.