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MANITOBA'S GOLDEN BOY. Canadian, Two-Step. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Manitoba Metis fiddler Andy de Jarlis. The tune takes its name from The Golden Boy, a 5.25 meter tall statue, made in France, that has graced the dome of the Manitoba Legislature Building since its completion in 1920. The statue (depicting Mercury) was sculpted by Charles Gardet in Paris in 1918, and was placed in the hold of a ship for transport to Canada. However, the vessel was commandeered for service in World War 1, with the statue in the hold the entire time as it transversed the Atlantic. Golden Boy was finally unloaded in Halifax late in 1919, and shipped by train to Manitoba.

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