Heritage Minutes: Les Voltigeurs de Québec

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The band of this famous French Canadian regiment rehearses Calixa Lavallée's "O Canada" for its first public performance at Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations (1880).

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Version française :    • Minutes du patrimoine: Les Voltigeurs de Q...  

Originally called “Chant national,” Canada's national anthem was written in Québec City by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier (words in French) and composer Calixa Lavallée (music), and first performed there on 24 June 1880. It began to be sung widely in French Canada at that time and later spread across Canada in various English-language versions, of which the best-known was written by Robert Stanley Weir in 1908. "O Canada" was officially adopted as Canada’s national anthem under the National Anthem Act on 27 June 1980.

Learn more on The Canadian Encyclopedia :
Voltigeurs of the War of 1812:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca...
"O Canada":
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.c...

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Credits :
Director: Richard Martin
Bandmaster: Jacques Thisdale

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