What's your favorite song about Canadian history?

[Tecumsehsbones]

Gordon Lightfoot's - The Canadian Railroad Trilogy

I was actually going to suggest that one. Or maybe Stan Rogers's "Free in the Harbour" or "Northwest Passage."

 

[JLM]

"There were two wild Kelowna boys, Bennett was the name,
They bought some land and sold some land, and made a capital gain-----------------------------"

 

[MHz]

I was going to go for, 'Ive been working on the railroad but I just found out I'm not from the Far-East

 

[Twin_Moose]

 

[lone wolf]

Justice in Ontario - Steve Earle

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Canada has history?

 

[JLM]

Canada has history?

Right back to Jacques Cartier in 1534 or if you want to get technical John Cabot in 1497.

 

[Mowich]

I was actually going to suggest that one. Or maybe Stan Rogers's "Free in the Harbour" or "Northwest Passage."

Or, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

 

[Walter]

 

[JLM]

Or, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

That's a dandy- that's the song that comes to mind when I hear Lightfoot mentioned.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Right back to Jacques Cartier in 1534 or if you want to get technical John Cabot in 1497.

But no further?

Oh, that's right, there was nothing you consider human in what is now Canada before then.

Or, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Or "Ride Forever" by Captain Tractor.

 

[Mowich]

That's a dandy- that's the song that comes to mind when I hear Lightfoot mentioned.

It's the trilogy for me, JLM. It always reminds me of the vision and determination of the men who fought for the building of the railroad and how very different our country would be had they not persevered and seen their dream through to fruition.

Or "Ride Forever" by Captain Tractor.

I was once a Due South devotee, Tec..........but I never heard of that song before. Thank you.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

It's the trilogy for me, JLM. It always reminds me of the vision and determination of the men who fought for the building of the railroad and how very different our country would be had they not persevered and seen their dream through to fruition.



I was once a Due South devotee, Tec..........but I never heard of that song before. Thank you.

How the heck could you have missed "All the Queen's Horses?"

Shocking!

Paul Gross also performed it at the Geminis in. . . I think it was 96 or 97, with the RCMP choir backing him up.

 

[Corduroy]

Right back to Jacques Cartier in 1534 or if you want to get technical John Cabot in 1497.

Uh... you missing anybody there?

 

[Mowich]

How the heck could you have missed "All the Queen's Horses?"

By not tuning in at the right time on the right day?

Shocking!

Not at all, happens to me all the time.

Paul Gross also performed it at the Geminis in. . . I think it was 96 or 97, with the RCMP choir backing him up.

I don't watch award shows, Tec............actually I do but they all have something to with sports - not people who pretend to be somebody else.

 

[55Mercury]

I kinda like that one about wolfe and montcalm, mainly because the separatiste traitors don't. lol

♫ God save our queen and Heaven bless
the maple leaf forever ♪

 

[Ludlow]

Gordon Lightfoot's - The Canadian Railroad Trilogy

Darn you Mowich I was going to name that one.

 

[JLM]

Uh... you missing anybody there?

Not until 1608..........................................uh Leif Erickson c. 1000 AD?

 

[Danbones]

Canada has history?

The word kanada goes back a few few [sic] thousand years.

 

[Corduroy]

Not until 1608..........................................uh Leif Erickson c. 1000 AD?

Before that.