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.
Loyalists who came by land to Quebec and Ontario brought their belongings in covered wagons. Click on the button below for printable craft instructions for a Covered Wagon Craft made with craft supplies around the house. Bonnets – In New France, women and girls wore coifs or caps all the time. Different caps were…
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…
Prince Edward Island is a province and one of the three Maritime Provinces. Maritime means ‘of the sea’. Together, with Newfound and Labrador, these provinces make up the region of Atlantic Canada. PEI is the smallest province of Canada in both land area and population, but it is the most densely populated. The people of…
New Brunswick is one of four Atlantic provinces in eastern Canada. New Brunswick is the only officially bilingual province, has the highest tides in the world, and is mostly forested. Historically, ship building and forestry were two of the most important industries. New Brunswick’s terrain is mostly forested uplands, with much of the land further…
Mathieu Da Costa may have been the first black freeman, acting as an interpreter, to visit Canada with de Mons & Champlain. People of African descent have had a part in shaping Canada’s identity. Some Loyalists who came during and after the American Revolution and settled in East Coast provinces, were black. Black History Month…
