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Canada 150 carillon piece to get its premiere Canada Day on Peace Tower bells

And Global News' Shirlee Engel hangs up her journalistic hat.

Scott Allan Orr is one of two winners of a national carillon composition competition put on by Canada’s Parliament to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Confederation and the Centre Block Peace Tower’s 90th anniversary in 2017. He's pictured at the Peace Tower carillon on June 5.The Hill Times photograph by Kristen Shane

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BY KRISTEN SHANE, MARCO VIGLIOTTI

June 7, 2017

When Scott Allan Orr took a tour of the University of Toronto’s Soldiers’ Tower during his undergraduate studies at the university, he wasn’t thinking it could lead him to one day be playing the carillon bells on Parliament Hill, or have his unique composition played there. M...

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