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Elaine Dudley Smith, 1878-1938, was born in Middlesex, England. She was a violin teacher in Wales before emigrating to Calgary in 1907. She resumed teaching the violin, and in 1911 became a member of the first Calgary Symphony Orchestra, leading the viola section. In 1921 she founded a string orchestra, mainly comprising her own students and those of her colleague, Annie Glen Broder, which put on concerts until at least 1934. She was active in the Calgary Women's Musical Club. She and her husband, Harry R. Dudley Smith, had two children, Harcourt and Dorothie.
Dorothie, 1909-1998, studied music and received her LAB in both piano and violin in 1926. She had begun playing in her mother's orchestra in 1923, and in 1927 joined the Calgary Symphony as a violinist. In 1930 she toured northern Alberta with the Chautauqua circuit. She married Robert H. Standish in 1932. She subsequently moved to Edmonton and played with the Edmonton Symphony until her retirement in 1976. Her second marriage was to John J. Langmo.