Our Song: The Story of O Canada: The Canadian National Anthem (My Canada) Review

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Our Song: The Story of O Canada: The Canadian National Anthem (My Canada) ReviewPicture a banquet hall, at a skating rink in Quebec City, in 1880, the time of gas lamps and horse-drawn carriages. Five hundred people sit along long tables. The occasion: a major celebration of the French in North America. After a meal of succulent meats and mouth-watering pies, the band strikes up. The crowd rises and "electrified by an unstoppable impulse," report those who were there, sings, for the first time ever, O Canada.
Next year marks the 125th anniversary of O Canada. Our Song: The Story of O Canada (Lobster Press, 2004), tells, for the first time, the story of the song's history. The author of the music, Calixa Lavallée, was a colourful character who fought in the U.S. Civil War on the Union side, went on to fame as an opera-writer in Boston, Paris and London, wrote what became Canada's anthem, and died, penniless and forgotten, in Boston in 1891.
The song became a hit in French Canada, but took its time travelling to English Canada. The tune caught on across the country but people from Nova Scotia to British Columbia sang completely different words. It was not until 1980, fully 100 years after the song's birth, that the House of Commons in Ottawa officially passed legislation making it officially Canada's national anthem.
This children's book, chock-full of fun collage-type illustrations and packed with facts about Canadian history, makes a great gift for anyone seeking more insight into Canada's colourful past.Our Song: The Story of O Canada: The Canadian National Anthem (My Canada) Overview

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