Barbara Cass-Beggs (November 10, 1904 – September 13, 1990) was an English-born Canadian folk song collector, singer and teacher.
[1][2][7] In 1948, she helped to compile a report used by the lawyer Andrew Brewin in his preparation of Canada's first introduced pay equality legislation.
[5] In Regina, she authored her philosophy that was subsequently published as To Listen, To Like, To Learn as he consolidated working with young children.
[3] Cass-Beggs also established the Regina Junior Concert Society in 1957 without funding or volunteers,[9] becoming its honorary president for life.
[1] In 1969, Cass-Beggs commenced pre-school teacher music courses at Algonquin College's early childhood education in Ottawa, which saw her commute from Manitoba via plane every week.
[1] By 1983, she had an enrolment of almost 250 children at her Ottawa Listen, Like Learn pre-school program, and gave two musical courses for mothers who were musical-literate.
[11][12] She presented a paper at an international education and technology conference in Tel Aviv in 1984 and was invited to teach baby/parent classes in Vienna two years later.
[1] Cass-Beggs was invited by Ann Limor, a Bostonian immigrant to Israel, to train instructors and present workshops in Haifa and Jerusalem in 1988.
[9] She used a method that aimed to assist children discover the relation of music to other arts forms and was also concerned with pitch and rhythm basic training.