Hard to take pride in a list that is just 2% French.
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01 July 2015
'O Canada! our native land thou art!'
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| Canadian Heart Songs Charles Wesley McCrossan Toronto: William Briggs, 1912 |
For this day, on which we mark the 148th anniversary of Canada's birth, these words of celebration. Here Charles Wesley McCrossan takes Calixa Lavallée's "French-Canadian National Anthem", makes it British and encourages pride in a nonexistent flag.
'Twas a different Canada back then.
Progress.
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25 June 2015
Robert Stead's Century-Old Poem of the Great War
A poem of the twelfth month of the Great War from the revised 1923 edition of Robert Stead's The Empire Builders.
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24 June 2015
La Fête: Il y'a 100 ans
For the day, verse from Octave Crémazie, father of Quebec poetry and – it needs be said – bookseller. "Canadien-française" is available elsewhere, sure, but this is how it appeared in Fête national des canadiens-français: 24 juin 1915 (Quebec: Bédard & Gagné, 1915):
As it was then, this poem is brought to you today by the booklet's sponsors: M Gignac, M Giguere, Mille Noel, Mille Brownrigg, Mille Maranda and the Quebec City Transfer Company.
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