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Happy Canada Day Everyone!

ganglesprocket's picture

Today is Canada Day! So to celebrate the coming together of this fine nation, feel free to post your favorite Canadian related stuff here.

I will begin with this song which I find oddly touching. According to BJ Snowden "In Canada, they treat you like a queen, and folks never can be mean." Amen to that.

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And I have just found this tune...

... in a similar vein, Oh Canada by Five Iron Frenzy

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ganglesprocket | 1 July 2011 - 10:47am
skirky | 1 July 2011 - 11:24am
Dadwardo | 1 July 2011 - 11:34am

Chips covered in gravy and brown sauce?

You'd never guess a lot of these guys are descended from Scots, would you?

*salivates*

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Hawkfall | 2 July 2011 - 1:12pm

Al Purdy (1918-2000)

Top poet!

"This is the country of our defeat and
yet
during the fall plowing a man
might stop and stand in a brown valley of the furrows
and shade his eyes to watch for the same
red patch mixed with gold
that appears on the same
spot in the hills
year after year
and grow old
plowing and plowing a ten acre field until
the convolutions run parallel with his own brain —

And this is a country where the young
leave quickly
unwilling to know what their fathers know
or think the words their mothers do not say —"

(excerpt from "The Country North of Belleville")

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duco01 | 1 July 2011 - 12:01pm

k.d Lang's great album Hymns of the 49th Parallel

dedicated to songs by Canadian songwriters covers a lot of bases of fantastic Canadian musicians - Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Jane Siberry. I'dd add Gordon Lightfoot and Sarah McLachlan to the list as well. Here's kd's lovely version of Hallelujah from that album

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Carolina | 1 July 2011 - 12:27pm

Canadian Amp

As does honorary Canadian Neko Case's "Canadian Amp".

Here's her version of Sook-Yin Lee's "Knock Loud"

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toiras34 | 1 July 2011 - 2:15pm

O Canada



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Five-Centres | 1 July 2011 - 12:24pm

HAIL to Canada...

It's the United States of America, but done properly.

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BernkastelCues | 1 July 2011 - 2:18pm

By which you mean to say

It's the US with no guns and better healthcare.

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MyAmericanMate | 1 July 2011 - 2:23pm

Played in America - Made In Canada

Joe Thornton, St Thomas Ontario's favourite son...

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Ruff-Diamond | 1 July 2011 - 2:50pm

Roberston

Davies' The Cornish Trilogy

Made me look at art with completely different eyes.

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Ahh_Bisto | 1 July 2011 - 5:34pm

As per my comment in another thread

all hail the great Eugene Levy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Levy

who I hadn't realised was Canadian. No one on Earth could deliver the line "I never did it with baked goods" half as well as he did, and that, it seems from the Wiki entry, is just the beginning of his talents ...

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SpaceBoy | 1 July 2011 - 7:33pm

The Nines

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MrRadio | 1 July 2011 - 7:49pm
SpaceBoy | 1 July 2011 - 8:03pm

I'm not your friend, buddy

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DogFacedBoy | 2 July 2011 - 1:19pm
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