The Bizarre History of O Canada

Your video is well made, very informative and quite interesting to watch. I loved it and it is a very balanced view of a touchy subject. As a francophone, I found your approach about the facts (without english or french favouritism) refreshing. Too often people paint themselves in a corner and tell history through one point of view. Stories get dumbed down and our education suffers as a result. When topics have a french or seperatist tendency, some anglo-canadians will simply overlook some facts. Again....I don't want to rub anyone the wrong way, i'm just pleased to see our history presented like you did! Well done to you, and I can't wait to see more of this well researched and informed product. I do hope you will one day do a podcast. That would be great. I'm an instant fan!! Merci beaucoup!

Cultural appropriation at its finest!

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It shows how much people hated politics back then as much as we hate it today....it shows.....

What do you mean before O Canada, Canada didn't have a national anthem? It was The Maple Leaf Forever written by Alexander Muir! Or that's what I was always taught...

Good vid. Some liberal bias.

Father Trudeau was a traitor to Quebec , his son is a traitor to all Canadians.

St Jean is also celebrated in Norway, as St.Hans.

It was originally put to that date by the church to hide the pagan summer solstice celebrations and bonfires!

I think Quebec sovereignty hopes were put in a grave for good once they lost 1995 referendum and Mr. Parizeau said his racist sentence about “le vote ethnique”.

Ohhh que WOW !!! What a documentary ... Réalisé avec brio !!!! Par un anglophone en toute neutralité ... Délicieux à écouter et réécouter

Demons

ALL THY SONS COMMAND

F trudo

The more I learn about this stupid country, the more it seems it would be nothing without Québec!
On vas-tu sortir de cet ostie de pays sans âme?

Sad that Trudeau united the country, and yet simultaneously divided the country. His NEP created a divide within the country that has yet to be repaired. There’s a slogan, “the west wants in”, and it’s true, the west will only be the beating horse for so long. I’m an easterner living in the west, and this is coming to an end sooner than later if things don’t change. The effort to unite only counts if you don’t penalize those in prosperous areas. I love my country, but it is bound to fail if it doesn’t stop being region vs region.

What really scares me is the thought of what our national anthem would say if it was created today by the Trudeau government😂😂

English Canada stole the anthem of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, the flag (more precisely the maple leaf which was and still is an important symbol of Quebec) and poutine (a dish created by Quebecers deep down of Quebec)
When will this come back to us?

oh canada you stupid liberal bastards has a good ring to it.....

“Before the decades of unrest in Quebec”, then hops to 1646, just as the English started murdering French settlers. Oops.

Built on death penalty and theft

My ancestor composed O Canada. So I'm pretty proud of that.

A few important corners cut, but interesting, none the less.

We can also see that you stopped buy the gift shop, we can spot the Expos t-shirt under your shirt.

Great video, as a English who cared nothing for Quebec before I started working there, I feel jaded on the history and culture I was not exposed to(mostly in school) I still can’t speak French but have not felt any negativity for my inability to speak while there.

oh cool our national anthem's tune is ripped off from mozart and a french folk song...

would have been more interesting had they went with hotel california...

Vive le Québec libre!

Another interesting subject in the same line of thought : the use of the word "Canadien" as a descriptor of national identity. I think a lot of people would be interested, and shocked, by that story.
That word was already used by the French settlers to refer to themselves before the English conquest. They were the actual first Canadiens. After the conquest that word became the only they had to refer to themselves. On the other hand the British kept their British identity for a very long time, until the beginning of the 20th century. It's only when their identity moved from British to Canadian that the francophones started using the term Canadien - Français (French Canadian), as a way to distinguish themselves. The Québécois identity is even more modern, from the révolution tranquille (60's). It started with the movement for Québec's separation (abandoning francophones outside Québec in the process).
As a side note, my own grandmother, born in 1914, would claim that she was canadienne, but that the anglophones weren't: for her they were "anglais".

Merci ❤

very informative video. it is sad to think how indigenous people had to be taken advantage of for this to happen

Trudeaus are all traitors!

The french wrote not only o' canada but also god save the king

We sang Oh Canada and God Save the Queen everyday in school in the 50's and 60's. In 1962 a film crew came into our classroom (Montreal) and made a movie of us singing Oh Canada. Wondered if anyone has ever seen that film?

O Canada belongs to us Canadiens. The Anglos have taken our land, our name, our symbols but whatever is stolen always belongs to the original owner.

White Europeans fighting over stollen land.

Excellent video! I hope many english speaking canadians will watch it and learn a bit about our (and their) history! Cheers and thank you for the great content! Merci 🍻🍻

best editing ever

Very well done - thank you

I'm still asking myself, since Quebec arrived a lots later, is the concept of French canadian is real in the 18s. "Canadians" were French canadians. ROC were ENGLISH loyalists. no?

Canadian cultural appropriation at its best… just like the beaver, the maple leaf, the name « Canadian » and now the poutine… same old shit with a different smell; without Québec’s cultural identity, Canada would just be another American state, period

These videos are well made and informative

The reign of Pierre Elliot Trudeau was horrible, from what my late father told me as he lived when Pierre was prime minister

The most boring country in the word.

Well Now canada isnt Canada. We have a dictatorship as government and islam as our main religion. Canada is Dead.

the first trowing bottles to Trudeau were rcmp officers in disguise. when they reached the police line, they showed their badge and trudeau showed his courage by refusing to leave and he was elected ....politicians create a disaster, c laim that they are protecting people. make themselves look like saviours and win...

Propagande de tête carrée.

I will never stand for thee again
or that dumb song

ya because you still wont admit that Canada is part of the Holy Roman Empire
and the Royals are the real Nazis
Religion is a scam
The name Canada
comes from
Land of Canaan

Typical Trudeau, pisses people off, causing division and not knowing when to leave. Justin’s mother was a whore you know? Do an image search “tredeau vs Castro”

Laurentian garbage.