Canada Day is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate this vibrant tapestry of a nation than with the music that defines our rich cultural heritage?
Music is a powerful conduit for fostering a sense of belonging, and celebrating communal identity. It fosters understanding and empathy, recognizing the shared experiences and emotions that bind us all together. May this Canadian music heal and enhance your celebration of the culture and heritage of this glorious country in which we live.
Your family may enjoy the music over several days leading up to Canada Day.
If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14 Nova Scotia Youth Ambassadors travel to Williams Lake, BC
National treasure – the Leahy Family shares their musical talent. If you don’t know them, here is a great write-up of this homeschooling, travelling family of nine.
This classic song, familiar to parents but perhaps not the children, should be carried on through generations.
This is an old folk song sung by woodworkers, and details them returning to their homes and families after having left for the un-colonised areas of Canada where they chopped wood. Lyrics here
This campfire song brings to mind the Indigenous Peoples travelling by canoe across the land, in years past, and the fur traders who opened the land to trade. A favourite!
Featuring British Columbia’s First Nations Alex and Daniel Wells who are members of Lil’wat First Nation, north of Whistler. Alex Wells is x3 times world champion hoop dancer and travels the world to perform.
The Nova Scotia Youth Ambassadors perform folk fiddle tunes “Inisheer” by Thomas Walsh and “Road to Errogie” at Crystal Crescent Beach, Nova Scotia.
In August 1896, gold was discovered on Rabbit Creek, later named Bonanza. When word reached the outside world, the Klondike Stampede began in the Yukon. Over 100,000 people started out for the Klondike goldfields and some 30,000 actually reached Dawson City in the summer of 1898. At this time Dawson City was the largest centre…
March is the month the maple syrup flows. Canada is known for our maple syrup-gifted to us from our First Peoples! Join the Quad Squad as they visit a farm in Ontario to see how maple syrup is made.A family of Attikamek First Nations show a French Canadian family how to harvest the syrup of…
On Feb. 15, 2015, this documentary was aired on the 50th anniversary of the Flag of Canada. The story is pertinent today on the 60th anniversary. Our maple leaf was raised over Parliament Hill in 1965, but not without controversy. Reg Sherren tells us the little known story of how the flag came to be….
Snakes, polar bears and floods… has to be Manitoba! Manitoba is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada. It is one of the three prairie provinces (with Alberta and Saskatchewan) and Canada’s fifth-most populous province with its estimated 1.3 million people. Manitoba covers 649,950 square kilometres with a widely varied landscape. Manitoba’s capital and…
Explore the Yukon with the adventure, mystery and story it brings! The Yukon, Canada’s northwest territory, is wild, mountainous and still a vast underpopulated wilderness. Canada’s highest peak, Mount Logan, glaciers, wild ice aqua rivers and trails are part of the mystique of this storied land. Dawson City Sourdough The Dawson City Historical Complex commemorates…
