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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 ...
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.
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 . Français : Les textes à Ô Canada , l'hymne national du Canada , dans anglais , française, et Inuktitut , langues officielles du Canada.
Within two months, on 12 April 1967, the committee presented its conclusion that "God Save the Queen" (as this was during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II), whose music and lyrics were found to be in the public domain, [94] should be designated as the royal anthem of Canada and "O Canada" as the national anthem, one verse from each, in both ...
Voice. Roger Doucet CM (21 April 1919 – 19 July 1981) was a Canadian tenor best known for singing the Canadian national anthem, "O Canada", on televised games of the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Alouettes, and Montreal Expos during the 1970s. He was particularly known for his bilingual version of the anthem, which began in French and ended in ...
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. He was appointed a municipal court ...
Mark Donnelly, the Vancouver Canucks anthem singer, got a little more popular after Friday night's game when he skated onto the ice to sing the National Anthem. Donnelly is known by many Canadian ...
The Quand nos Aïeux brisèrent leurs entraves was originally a poem written by Oswald Durand. [1] In 1893, a visiting German warship set course to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince to stopover and by protocol that required that a national anthem be performed. At the time, Haiti did not have an anthem, so the composer Occide Jeanty offered ...