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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.
"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.
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 .
The legendary folk singer-songwriter, whose hits including “Early Morning Rain,” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," told a tale of Canadian identity that was exported worldwide, died ...
The maple leaf is the symbol most associated with Canadian identity. Canadian identity refers to the unique culture, characteristics and condition of being Canadian, as well as the many symbols and expressions that set Canada and Canadians apart from other peoples and cultures of the world.
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 ]
Native Canadian activist Pearl Wenjack looks on as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau embraces a dying Gord Downie at We Day Canada at Parliament Hill on July 2, 2017 in Ottawa, Canada.
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]