BeatRoute Magazine is still in publication, but covers a wider scope (western Canada, including British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba).
Aboriginal instruments in this part of North American were limited to the voice and the easily made and portable drum.
The fiddle became the basis of a distinctive style used in the Western fur trade and associated with the Métis people in particular.
This tradition persisted even after Ontarian and European immigration began to increase after 1870.
A list of dances published in the Edmonton Bulletin on 3 February 1896 includes several of Métis and Scottish origin.