O Canada!

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O Canada, our home and native land

Author (French): A. B. Routhier (1880); Author (English): Robert Stanley Weir (1906)
Tune: O CANADA
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	O CANADA! (Celebration Hymnal 806)

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O Canada! Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all our lives command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
the True North strong and free!
From far and wide, O Canada,
we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

Source: Celebrating Grace Hymnal #700

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Author (French): A. B. Routhier

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Author (English): Robert Stanley Weir

Weir, Robert Stanley. (Hamilton, Ontario, November 15, 1856--August 20, 1926, Lake Memphremagog, Quebec). Unitarian. McGill University (Montreal), B.C.L., 1881; D.C.L., 1897. He took up law after training, and working for some years, as a schoolteacher. He began to pratise law in Montreal in 1881, and taught it at McGill 1909-1920, as well as writing articles on it, and publishing verse and prose in magazines. For the tercentenary of Quebec City (1908) he composed an English version of "O Canada" which, as kept insisting for the rest of his life, was not an attempted translation of the French lyric which Judge Adolphe B. Routhier had written for the 1880 St-Jean-Baptiste celebrations at Quebec, but an independent poem constructed to pit the… Go to person page >

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First Line:	O Canada, our home and native land
Title:	O Canada!
Author (French):	A. B. Routhier (1880)
Author (English):	Robert Stanley Weir (1906)
Meter:	Irregular
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O Canada, glorious and free
Copyright:	Public Domain