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"Canadian Railroad Trilogy" is a Canadian folk song by Gordon Lightfoot describing the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. This song was commissioned by the CBC for a special broadcast on January 1, 1967, to start Canada's Centennial year. [27] It appeared on Lightfoot's The Way I Feel album later in the same year.
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"O Canada" (French: Ô Canada) is the national anthem of Canada.The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony; Calixa Lavallée composed the music, after which French-language words were written by the poet and judge Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier.
It is believed that "The Bold Canadian" was written by a private from the Third York Militia's First Flank Company named Cornelius Flummerfelt, who wrote the lines while marching in the Detroit campaign, or on the way back to York, Upper Canada. [1] The song was used to further increase the numbers of Canadian militia to fight during the war. [2]
Music of Canadian Cultures is a wide and diverse accumulation of music from many different individual communities all across Canada. With Canada being vast in size, the country throughout its history has had regional music scenes. [ 1 ]
The war was the catalyst for the writing and recording of large numbers of Canadian-written popular songs, some of which achieved lasting international commercial success. [62] The military during World War I produced official music such as regimental marches and songs as well as utilitarian bugle calls .
French-language Canadian songs (8 C, 8 P) Q. Quebec songs (6 C, 5 P) S. Songs about Canada (6 C, 45 P) Pages in category "Canadian songs"