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O Canada
, prefix = National , country = Canada , composer = Calixa Lavallée , music_date = 1880 , author = Adolphe-Basile Routhier (French, 1880), Robert Stanley Weir (English, 1908) , adopted = July 1, 1980 , until = , sound = "O Canada"-«Ô Canada», performed by the National Band of the Naval Reserve.oga , sound_title = Instrumental rendition by the Royal Canadian Navy's National Band of the Naval Reserve "O Canada" (french: Ô Canada, italic=no) is the national anthem of Canada. The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony; Calixa Lavallée composed the music, after which French-language words were written by the poet and judge Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier. The original French lyrics were translated to English in 1906. Multiple English versions ensued, with Robert Stanley Weir's 1908 version (which was not a translation of the French lyrics) g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calixa Lavallée
Calixa Lavallée (December 28, 1842 – January 21, 1891) was a French-Canadian-American musician and Union Army band musician during the American Civil War. He is best known for composing the music for "O Canada," which officially became the national anthem of Canada in 1980, after a vote in the Senate and the House of Commons. The same 1980 Act of Parliament also changed some of the English lyrics. A slight alteration to the English lyrics was made again in 2018. The original French lyrics and the music, however, have remained unchanged since 1880. Early life and education Lavallée was born Calixte Paquet dit Lavallée, the son of Jean Baptiste Paquet and Charlotte Valentine. He was born near Verchères, a village near present-day Montreal in the Province of Canada (now the Canadian province of Quebec). He was a descendant of Isaac Pasquier, from Poitou, France, who arrived in Nouvelle-France in 1665 as a soldier in the Carignan-Salières regiment. Lavallée's father Augus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
