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Canada In Song Project |
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Canada In Song is a project I'm doing for the Canada 150 year (and beyond.) This page is a compilation of songs which have a specific Canadian reference
in the lyrics, like a place name, a person's name, or a date significant to Canadians. (For example, a song mentioning hockey wouldn't make the list because
that's not specific enough to Canada, but a song mentioning the Winnipeg Jets would make the list because that's a specifically Canadian reference.) I'm
getting the page posted in time for Canada Day 2017, but at a later date I hope to add a blog post explaining the project in more detail. I'll be continuing to
add to the page. Suggestions for songs that should be added to the page are welcome! E-mail address is on home page or @zerofretAnne (Anne's Guitar
Tabs) on Twitter. Because it's something to sing about, this land of ours!
| Songs By Canadian Artists | ||||
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| BAND / ARTIST | SONG | CANADIAN REFERENCE | ||
| Tommy Ambrose | People City | Toronto (ON) | ||
| April Wine | Highway Hard Run | Montreal (QC) | ||
| Arkells | Drake's Dad | Hamilton (ON) / Drake / Canadian | ||
| Jann Arden | Demolition Love Waiting In Canada | Calgary (AB) Canada | ||
| Randy Bachman | Prairie Town | Portage & Main / Winnipeg (MB) / Thunder Bay (ON) / Neil (Young) & the Squires / Twilight Zone (Winnipeg nightclub) | ||
| Big Sugar | All Hell For A Basement O Canada Trouble In the City | Alberta (Instrumental recording of the national anthem) Toronto (ON) | ||
| Blue Rodeo | Hasn't Hit Me Yet | Lake Ontario | ||
| Chalk Circle | Sons & Daughters | James Bay | ||
| Chilliwack | 148 Heavy | Toronto (ON) | ||
| Tom Cochrane | Life Is A Highway | Vancouver (BC) | ||
| Gordon Downie | Canada Geese Christmastime In Toronto Moon Over Glenora The Hard Canadian Vancouver Divorce | Canada geese Toronto (ON) Glenora (ON) Canadian Vancouver (BC), Tim Horton's | ||
| Drake | City Is Mine | Toronto (ON) | ||
| Kathleen Edwards | I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory | The Great One (Wayne Gretzky) / Marty McSorley / CBC | ||
| Goddo | Oh Carole (Kiss My Whip) | Carole Pope / Rough Trade | ||
| Great Big Sea | Boston And St. John's Greenspond | St. John's (NL) Greenspond / Pinchard's Island / Petty Harbour (all 3 NL) | ||
| Guess Who | Runnin' Back To Saskatoon | Moose Jaw, Moosomin, Saskatoon (all 3 SK) / Red Deer, Medicine Hat, South View (all 3 AB) / Terrace (BC) | ||
| Ian & Sylvia | Four Strong Winds | Alberta | ||
| Jackson Hawke | Ain't No Cowboys | Canada / Montreal (QC) | ||
| Daniel Lanois | A Lot Of Love To Give Jolie Louise Silium's Hill Still Water Under A Stormy Sky | Wasaga Beach (ON) / 1st of July Gatineau, Lafontaine (both QC) / Ontario / Toronto (ON) Medicine Hat (AB) Caledonia (ON) / "the River Grand" (the Grand River, ON) TH & B (Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway) / "city of steel" (Hamilton, ON) | ||
| Gordon Lightfoot | Alberta Bound Canadian Railroad Trilogy The Wreck Of the Edmund Fitzgerald | Alberta / Rocky Mountain (sunset) / Toronto (ON) Rockies / St. Lawrence river / Gaspe / (song is about the building of Canada's transcontinental railway) Lake Superior / Lake Huron / Lake Ontario / Lake Erie / Whitefish Bay | ||
| Max Webster | Research At Beach Resorts Toronto Tontos | Wasaga Beach (ON) / "Canadian boys" Toronto (ON) | ||
| Murray McLaughlin | Down By the Henry Moore | Henry Moore / Kensington Market / the Silver Dollar / the Palm Grove / the Square (Nathan Phillips Square) (all in Toronto) | ||
| Joni Mitchell | Raised On Robbery | (Toronto) Maple Leafs | ||
| Pukka Orchestra | Cherry Beach Express | Cherry Beach (Toronto, ON) / 52 Division (Toronto PD) | ||
| Douglas Rankine w/ The Secrets | Clear the Track, Here Comes Shack | Eddie Shack | ||
| Rheostatics | Saskatchewan The Ballad Of Wendel Clark | Saskatchewan B.C. / Wendel Clark / Dave Hodge / Jacques Plante / Kelvington (SK) | ||
| Sam Roberts | Hard Road | "a Canadian highway" | ||
| Stan Rogers | Barrett's Privateers Bluenose Northwest Passage The Mary Ellen Carter | Halifax (NS) / Sherbrooke (QC) Privateers Wharf (Halifax, NS) / the Bluenose / Grand Banks Beaufort Sea / Davis Strait / Fraser River (BC) / John Franklin / "Kelso" (Henry Kelsey) / Alexander Mackenzie / David Thompson Three Mile Rock (NL) | ||
| Rush | Lakeside Park | Lakeside Park (Port Dalhousie, ON) / 24th of May | ||
| Stampeders | Rock 'N Roll Line Rocky Mountain Home Stick By You The Man From P.E.I. | St. John's, Newfoundland / Sydney, Halifax (both NS) / Montreal, Quebec / Toronto (ON) / Winnipeg (MB) / Saskatoon, Regina (both SK) / Edmonton, Calgary (both AB) / Victoria, Vancouver (both BC) Rocky Mountains Montreal (QC) Prince Edward Island / T.O. (Toronto) | ||
| Stompin' Tom Connors | Sudbury Saturday Night The Hockey Song | Sudbury (ON) / Inco Hockey Night (In Canada) | ||
| Sweet Blindness | National Poddy Quebec | Thunder Bay (ON) (not available) | ||
| The Band | Acadian Driftwood | Plains Of Abraham (QC) / Acadian / Canadian | ||
| The Forgotten Rebels | Evelyn Dick | Evelyn Dick / Hamilton (ON) / Hamilton mountain / Gore Park / (song is about Evelyn Dick murder case in 1940s) | ||
| The Kings | This Beat Goes On | Toronto (ON) | ||
| The Pursuit Of Happiness | Gretzky Rocks | Wayne Gretzky / Walter Gretzky / Gordie Howe / Dave Semenko / Peter Pocklington / Mario Lemieux / Brantford (ON) / Edmonton (AB) / City Of Champions (Edmonton) / Stanley Cup | ||
| The Shuffle Demons | Spadina Bus Vitamin K (In Honor Of Keith's India Pale Ale) | Spadina bus, Spadina station / Wellesly, College Street, Yonge Street, Ossington, Bathurst (all streets in Toronto) / TTC / York U. (York University) (Alexander) Keith's (brewery in Halifax, NS) | ||
| The Tragically Hip | 38 Years Old All Canadian Surf Club An Inch An Hour Bobcaygeon Born In the Water Courage (For Hugh MacLennan) Fifty Mission Cap Fireworks Goodnight Attawapiskat Inevitability Of Death Lake Fever Looking For A Place To Happen Problem Bears The Dark Canuck Thompson Girl Three Pistols Toronto #4 Wheat Kings | Millhaven Maximum Security (Bath, ON) / Mounties Canadian Pierre Trudeau / Springside Park (Napanee, ON) Bobcaygeon (ON) / Toronto (ON) Sault Ste. Marie (ON) Hugh MacLennan, the song was inspired by the MacLennan novel The Watch That Ends the Night Bill Barilko / Toronto Maple Leafs / Stanley Cup 1972 Canada/USSR Summit Series (hockey) & Paul Henderson's winning goal / Bobby Orr Attawapiskat (ON) Terry (Fox) Algonquin Park (ON) / cholera outbreak in the Canadas in 1832 Jacques Cartier Lake Memphremagog (QC) Canuck Thompson, Churchill (both MB) Tom Thomson / Remembrance Day Toronto (ON) CBC, prime ministers, song references the David Milgaard court case | ||
| The Trews | Highway Of Heroes One By One Paranoid Freak | Ontario / Highway Of Heroes / "True patriot love" North Ontario "stand on guard for thee" | ||
| Thomas Trio & the Red Albino | 142 Thru Daughters and Sons | Montreal (QC) Canada / (song is about the Mulroney Tory government) | ||
| Trooper | Cold, Cold Toronto Real Canadians | Toronto (ON) Canadians / Malahat, Kitimat (both BC) / Medicine Hat (AB )/ Uranium City (SK) / Thunder Bay (ON) / Saint-Gervais (QC) / St. John's, Newfoundland | ||
| David Usher | St. Lawrence River | St. Lawrence River | ||
| Gino Vannelli | I Just Wanna Stop | Montreal (QC) | ||
| Neil Young | Helpless Prairie Wind | North Ontario Cypress River (MB) | ||
| Songs By International Artists | ||||
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| BAND / ARTIST | SONG | CANADIAN REFERENCE | ||
| John Denver | Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights In Canada) | Jasper, Alberta / Canada / Rocky Mountains | ||
| Falco | Vienna Calling | Toronto, Canada | ||
| Heart | Rock Deep (Vancouver) | Vancouver / King George Highway / English Bay (all in BC) | ||
| Lynyrd Skynyrd | Sweet Home Alabama | Neil Young | ||
| Movie Soundtrack - South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut | Blame Canada | Canada / Anne Murray | ||
| Nazareth | Vancouver Shakedown | Vancouver (BC) | ||
| Pilot | Canada | Canada | ||
| Carly Simon | You're So Vain | Nova Scotia | ||
| Styx | Medemoiselle | Montreal (QC) | ||
| Band Names With Canadian References | ||
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| BAND | CANADIAN REFERENCE | |
| Chilliwack | City in British Columbia | |
| Leslie Spit Tree-o | The Leslie Spit is on Lake Ontario at the end of Leslie Street in Toronto (ON) | |
| Toronto | City In Ontario | |
| National and Provincial Songs | ||
|---|---|---|
| O Canada | National anthem | |
| Ca-na-da | Written by Bobby Gimby for Canada's Centennial & Expo '67 Montreal | |
| The Maple Leaf Forever | ||
| The Red Maple Leaf Of Canada | ||
| This Is My Canada / Mon Cher Canada | Dream Team Canada Singers | |
| This Is My Home | Written for Expo '86 Vancouver | |
| A Place To Stand (Ontar-i-ar-i-ar-i-o) | Written for Expo '67 in Canada's Centennial year | |
| Farewell To Nova Scotia | ||
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