Edward Fisher was a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 conductor, teacher, organist

Organist

An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumental soloists...

, and founder and first musical director of the Toronto Conservatory of Music.

Born in Jamaica, Vermont

Jamaica, Vermont

Jamaica is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The population was 946 at the 2000 census. Jamaica includes the villages of East Jamaica and Rawsonville....

, he studied at the Boston Conservatory of Music in 1867. His teachers included Julius Eichberg

Julius Eichberg

Julius Eichberg was a German-born composer, musical director and educator who worked mostly in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States.-Biography:...

, Joseph Bennett Sharland, and Whitney Eugene Thayer

Whitney Eugene Thayer

Whitney Eugene Thayer was an American organist and composer.Thayer gave his first concert just after the installation of the new organ in the Boston Music Hall in 1863...

. He later studied in Berlin

Berlin

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, Germany

Germany

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 with Carl August Haupt

Carl August Haupt

Carl August Haupt was a German organist, organ teacher and composer.Between 1827 and 1830, Haupt was musically trained in Berlin by August Wilhelm Bach, Bernhard Klein and Siegfried Dehn and he also worked as an organist in several churches and Berlin's Parochial Church...

 and Carl Albert Loeschhorn. In 1875, he moved to Ottawa

Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

 becoming music director of the Ottawa Ladies’ College and conducted the Ottawa Choral Society. Moving to Toronto

Toronto

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, he was an organist at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church from 1879 to 1899. He was also a music director of the Ontario Ladies’ College in Whitby, Ontario

Whitby, Ontario

Whitby is a town in Durham Region. Whitby is located in Southern Ontario east of Toronto on the north shore of Lake Ontario, and is home to the headquarters of Durham Region...

. In 1886, he started the Toronto Conservatory of Music and was appointed musical director.

He died in 1913 and was succeeded by Augustus Stephen Vogt.