Ok so I don't speak French.....

[tigsmom]

Of course, no one can write a patriotic anthem like Bob and Doug MacKenzie!
...let's play Beer Hunter!!

OK--a question.
When I was 10 years old, the Montreal Expos and Toronto Blue Jays joined Major League baseball. Our teachers in school made this big HUGE hissy deal about how the Canadian anthem would also be played at those games. I think they were scadalized.

Anyway, we learned O Canada in 5th grade, with a small difference. My question is, did we learn it incorrectly, or was there a change in the last 40 years?
O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide, We learned, "We stand on guard"
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee."

Going back to the site I read earlier, there seems to have been a few changes over the years. Quoting from Canada's official site...

However the version that gained the widest currency was made in 1908 by Robert Stanley Weir, a lawyer and at the time Recorder of the City of Montréal. A slightly modified version of the 1908 poem was published in an official form for the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation in 1927, and has since been generally accepted in English speaking Canada. Following further minor amendments, the first verse of Weir's poem was proclaimed as Canada's national anthem in 1980. The version adopted pursuant to the National Anthem Act in 1980 reads as follows:

O Canada! Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North, strong and free!
From far and wide, O Canada,
We stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free !
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/sc-cs/anthem_e.cfm
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[BRER STITCH]

You guys are making me nuts with the National Anthem stuff! :lol:

Why did it take someone so long to figure out that the OP was talking about the Cananda pavilion movie song??? :shrug:

Thanks LAURA 22 for hitting a grand slam!


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[brucie]

Reading the post from a Canadians perspective i can see how it could be easily confused......

Do you know what hasn't come up yet in this Canada related thread... when are we getting a Tim Horton's Kiosk in the Canada pavillion... Sorry I had to!