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The single was the most successful single in Canada in 1967, selling a then unprecedented 270,000 copies. [3] It was No. 1 for 2 weeks on the RPM Top 100 Singles in Canada, in April 1967. [4] In 1971, Gimby donated all royalties to the Boy Scouts of Canada, but the song only earned one cent per airplay, which is one of the lowest rates in the ...
Gilles Vigneault GOQ (French pronunciation: [ʒil viɲo]; born 27 October 1928) is a Canadian [1] poet, publisher, singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. ...
larousse.fr Éditions Larousse ( French pronunciation: [edisjɔ̃ laʁus] ) is a French publishing house specialising in reference works such as dictionaries. It was founded by Pierre Larousse , and for some time was known also as Librarie Larousse ; its best-known work is the Petit Larousse encyclopedic dictionary.
Raymond Lévesque (October 7, 1928 – February 15, 2021) was a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet from Quebec. [1] One of the pioneers of the chansonnier tradition in Quebec, [2] he was best known for writing "Quand les hommes vivront d'amour", one of the most famous pop standards in French-language popular music.
In its typical specialized usage, the word chanson refers to a polyphonic French song of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. [4] Early chansons tended to be in one of the formes fixes—ballade, rondeau or virelai (formerly the chanson baladée)—though some composers later set popular poetry in a variety of forms. The earliest chansons were ...
Each song is inspired by his travels through Canada, ordered geographically from east ("Ballad to the East," about the Maritimes) to west ("Land of the Misty Giants," the Rockies). Peterson described the album as "my musical portrait of the Canada I love." [21] Canadiana Suite was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008.
He was invested into the Order of Canada in 1971, [2] the National Order of Québec and became a Chevalier of the French Légion d'honneur in 1986. Leclerc was the father of three children: the photographer and cameraman Martin Leclerc, film director Francis Leclerc and Nathalie Leclerc, general and artistic director of l’Espace Félix ...
"Un Canadien errant" ("A Wandering Canadian") is a song written in 1842 by Antoine Gérin-Lajoie after the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837–38. Some of the rebels were condemned to death, others forced into exile to the United States [n 1] [1] and as far as Australia.