The Peace Tower carillon: a voice for the nation

The bells of the Dominion Carillon rang out from the Peace Tower of the Parliament Building for the first time on July 1, 1927.

Percival Price, portrait circa 1927 and signed by Yousuf Karsh, became the first of five successive Dominion Carillonneurs over the 95-year history of the Peace Tower Carillon, remarkably after answering a want ad in a newspaper. Photograph courtesy of the House of Commons

Opinion

BY JOHANNA MIZGALA

June 30, 2022

When Percival Price performed the national anthem on Dominion Day in 1927, the bells of the Dominion Carillon not only rang out from the Peace Tower of the Parliament Building for the first time to the 60, 000 gathered on the lawn, but also chimed into the living rooms of Canadians across the countr...

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