Annie Glen Broder (c. 1857 – 19 August 1937),[1] was a British-Canadian teacher, singer, pianist, composer, lecturer and writer.
He was an Irish widower, a former teacher in England; he had emigrated to Canada with his former wife, obtaining a land grant in 1890.
John Stoughton Dennis Jr (1856–1938), former civil servant and now an official of the Canadian Pacific Railway, who as an amateur musician and producer of operettas worked with her on a production of HMS Pinafore, invited the Broders to move to Calgary with him in 1903, where Richard Broder became a rancher.
[1][2] Her most popular composition was "The Ride of the North-West Mounted Police"; it was arranged for band by John Waldron, and printed in 1906.
The obituary in the Calgary Herald described her as "a figure of Victorian elegance, retaining a Dresden-like distinction until the end".