WARFLEET PRESS
Welcome to Warfleet Press. Warfleet Press publishes historical books on Musical
Canadiana and guide books on First Nations Tourism. We presently have three
historical books available on Vancouver Bands. They are By Jove What A Band, The
Red Cape Boys and The Worlds Most Famous Boys Band.
By Jove What A Band is the story of Arthur Delamont and his world famous, Vancouver
Kitsilano Boys Band. The Red Cape Boys is a collection of 30 chapters on 30 old boys
from the band who went on to fame and fortune. The Worlds Most Famous Boys Band
is a pictorial record of Arthur Delamont and his band, with 500 photos on 300 pages.
Our guide books on First Nations Tourism can be found on a separate web page
under www.adventureguides.biz.
The preservation of Canada's musical history is important
especially today when the arts seem to be the first field of
endeavour that is cut from school budgets. Often the arts are
relegated to the level of frivolous entertainment with little more
importance towards the development of the individual than to
entertain or to occupy ones spare time.
Even the slightest look at an organization such as the Vancouver
Boys' Band, illustrates the true value of even a part time musical
education in developing skills in the individual. Skills such as
leadership, team work, doing one's best at all times,appreciation
of others, appreciation of what is good in life as well as in music,
how to conduct oneself in public and out, how to dress
appropriately and how to be a contributing part of the greater
society of man.
Our three historical books on the Life and Times of Arthur Delamont and his world
famous Vancouver Boys Band are now available in the high school and elementary
school libraries of the Vancouver School District. For the first time future generations of
young people will be able to read about the value of music and what it can bring to
their lives just as it did to countless hundreds of boys who passed through the
Vancouver Boys Band from 1928 through 1974.