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"O Canada" Official bilingual sheet music National anthem of Canada Also known as French: Ô Canada Lyrics Adolphe-Basile Routhier (French, 1880), Robert Stanley Weir (English, 1908) Music Calixa Lavallée, 1880 Adopted July 1, 1980 Audio sample Instrumental rendition by the Royal Canadian Navy's National Band of the Naval Reserve file help This article contains special characters. Without ...
The lyrics to "Ô Canada! mon pays, mes amours", meaning "O Canada! my country, my love" is a French-Canadian patriotic song.It was written by George-Étienne Cartier and first sung in 1834, during a patriotic banquet of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society held in Montreal.
English: The lyrics to O Canada, the national anthem of Canada, in English, French, and Inuktitut, official languages in Canada. Typeset in lilypond 2.10.33.
President Donald Trump has spoken repeatedly about turning Canada into the 51st state. Canadians are not fans of the idea. Canadian anthem singer confirms she changed 'O Canada' lyrics as dig at U ...
Canadian-Ukrainian artist Chantal Kreviazuk, shown her at a Canada Day ceremony in July 2022, changed the lyrics to 'O Canada' at the 4 Nations Face-Off championship game as a form of protest.
This file is in the public domain because the lyrics and melody of the anthem are explicitly declared to be in the public domain by the National Anthem Act of Canada. [1] This template must not be used to dedicate an uploader's own work to the public domain; CC0 should be used instead.
The national anthem of Canada, "O Canada", has official lyrics in both English and French which are not translations of each other, and is frequently sung with a mixture of stanzas, representing the country's bilingual nature. The song itself was originally written in French.
Robert Stanley Weir FRSC (November 15, 1856 – August 20, 1926) was a Canadian judge and poet most famous for writing the English lyrics to "O Canada", the national anthem of Canada. He was educated as a teacher and lawyer and considered one of the leading experts of the day on Quebec's municipal civil law .