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Majorettes Parading

Black and white image of young women in white uniforms parading at the head of a band, made up of men in military uniform marching along Cutting Street in Coaticook, as spectators look on from the street, against a backdrop of trees and houses.

Year: circa 1960

Credits: Danielle Fréchette

The addition of majorettes to the Coaticook Harmony Band was considered very innovative in 1950. Today it might seem very ordinary, but at the time it was a first. It was Victor-Laurier Vincent, the musical director, who had the idea to include a corps of majorettes in the band.