Flash Mob - Canadian Army performing "Maple Leaf Forever" in Plaza🎵💃🏽

I am a retired officer in the Governor General's Horse Guards. This is our band in dress blues. The last song they played is our Regimental march, Men of Harlech.

[@dilligaf0220]

Men Of Harlech...I always get Zulu flashbacks. One of those songs.

[@official_cessna1723]

My air cadet squadron uses men of harlech a lot.

[@thesealord4693]

God Save the King and Heaven Bless the Maple Leaf forever 👑🍁

[@oscarwildeghost]

The Red Ensign and the Maple Leaf Forever, probably one of the best national anthems ever. Great performance!

[@humphreeyy3726]

The original anthem! Maple leaf forever 🇨🇦 ❤️

[@zachattack_the_imperialist6065]

Long live the Dominion of Canada ever loyal

[@stuart6724]

I remember learning this Canadian National Anthem when I was 5 years old in 1958

[@norwegiannationalist7678]

old times were better

[@stuart6724]

@@norwegiannationalist7678 By Far!!

[@worldbridgeldn1162]

I’m jealous. I’m Gen X, grew up in the 90s. Never got to experience Real Canada.

[@lukaswhite362]

@@worldbridgeldn1162 The 90s was amazing compared to now still.

[@ontariofirs7347]

Im a Filipino immigrant who came to Canada in 2007. This song is so much better than O Canada and please understand that many of us immigrants are just as fiercely patriotic for Canada and the Queen.

[@ontariofirs7347]

@Mohammed Patel "By the Queen! A Proclamation- For uniting the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, into one Dominion, under the name of Canada." The history of this country is deeply intertwined with the Britain and the British Crown as we have been taught here in our school system. Any immigrant who didnt undergo the Canadian education system wouldnt know this history. I know some Indians resent the British Crown and if you want to live in a Republic one can move to the US, that traitor who rebelled the glorious British Crown.

[@chfrqn4dl]

yea im the child of pakistani immigrants and i agree with you!

[@scabbythecrownvic]

@@chfrqn4dl not to be rude but do you even give a crap about India or have any feelings about India at all?

[@Shmendan2]

Only a very small percentage of immigrants feel this way

[@YaSeenAli-bs4wq]

@@scabbythecrownvic where did you get india from? nobodys talking about that here

[@ecampbell17]

🎶 The maple leaf our emblem dear, the maple leaf forever! God save our King and heaven bless, the maple leaf forever 🍁🍁🍁🇨🇦🇬🇧!!! 🎶

[@bonniebluebell5940]

It's been a long time but I miss my country. + FREEDOM AND TRUTH OR PERISH +

[@randomobserver8168]

Yep- everything about that from the tune to the army band in old uniforms to the performers themselves to the audience of the crowd, and the nod to the Netherlands, to the setting, is the most Canadian thing ever.

[@denpobedy7881]

grandparents all from there. Parents barely here when born, but stayed on holidays and summers. I came up immersed in things Canadian. Damn good allies!

[@gerogegerog5926]

Imagine sitting one day to find a Canadian army regimental band playing music in the middle of the street with no explenation

[@bladeaddict3]

God save our King and heaven bless the maple leaf forever!!!

[@csdm1999]

i wish this was still Canada's anthem it gives a better feeling of our national identity than o' Canada

[@robertmacdonaldbespokekilt3063]

I t /can/ be: do what I do and sing it every chance you can! (all the best anthems are - at heart - 'drinking songs', so get your mates keeping time with their beer mugs and let the change begin!

[@fnanette1]

This warmed my heart. We learned that and sang it so often, all verses. I miss it.

[@Reynaertphotos]

Thanks for performing my nations hymne Canada!

[@marclaporte3710]

This song gets me choked up every time. I can just picture our boys riding through Holland in 1945.. saving the world from tyranny. God save the Queen and God Bless Canada !

[@borninjordan7448]

It looks like the west may have to fight again.

[@fredtorres1703]

The Governor General's Horse Guard preserving Canadian culture. God Bless Canada.

[@London_J]

What a way to end. Playing men of harlech as they March away

[@Perrygallo]

you just love to see it...God Bless our Commonwealth

[@Justsomeoneyoucouldhaveknown]

The dislikes are from people who got held up in traffic that day otherwise there's no excuse to dislike this.

[@kimshergold9792]

Awesome thank you !! God Bless our Veterans

[@theretailadv]

I'm not crying, you are! ❤️ 🇨🇦🍁

[@histman3133]

Long live our fair Dominion and His Majesty the King! Maple Leaf Forever! A mari usque ad mare!

[@jukes6767]

God bless Canada 🇨🇦

[@earldonaldson1427]

Outstanding !

[@jzzr345]

This should still be our national anthem .

[@KhangGetsStuckInThePast]

I am Vietnamese but I feel patriotic for Canada

[@goldengolem4725]

Imagine you’re a tourist walking downtown at Young-Dundas Square then this randomly happens.

[@bensyroishka6335]

No hate to oh Canada I will always be loyal to it as long as it’s the national anthem but I prefer the maple leaf forever I feel it more patriotic and has more of a history and history being whith Canada from the start and I would like to see it as the national anthem GOD SAVE THE QUENN AND THE MAPLE LEAF FOREVER

[@Lazymotion]

Might want to update this comment.

[@thinkwithaportal]

@@Lazymotion Shh...

[@navairman1]

The Maple Leaf For Ever. That should have been our National Anthem. It is historically accurate and would be back up for that weak, wishy-washy flag of ours.

[@bonniebluebell5940]

Absolutely. Our culture's been ripped out from under us...I hear the call but where is the heart of that emblem dear that was paid for in blood, sweat, and toil? Where is the soul of its spirit and strength? Can ye not hear its vanishing echo rise from the rocks and crimson hills? Can ye not hear it spring from the mountains, forests, and lakes? O' Canada...Will ye no come back again?

[@BobNeubauer-ib2el]

A fair few people have died fighting for that "wishy-washy" flag. Many more have been honoured to serve under it.

[@navairman1]

To each his own. Symbols are important! Over the last 60 years many of those I grew up with and jserved to protect have been trashed.

[@oscarwildeghost]

I don't know which regimental band this is but I'd like to see more of their performances.

[@aspiranttobeapatrioticcana6748]

Governor-General's Horse Guards

[@rvnto]

Its a shame that most of the people in this video don't know what this song is.

[@truenorthgames]

For king and Country!

[@chalkwizard1292]

IIIN DAYS OF YOOOOORREEEE

[@jaxstiffler4632]

TRUE NORTH !!

[@SaltyGrapee]

Bro I was at younge and Dundas square that day

[@kennethpetty8351]

Nice that our northern neighbors can play patriotic music in public. Not sure of the reaction if we did this in some of our (USA) northern cities.

[@Shmendan2]

Let’s hope someday order and tradition can be restored to the subhumans in toronto

[@MichaelHBallard]

Love it!!

[@MisatoBestWoman]

Canada Day 2024 I’ll be flying my replica Red Ensign alongside the current Canadian flag. HAPPY (early still an hour to go here) CANADA DAY EVERYONE!!!!

[@johncabrera4171]

GSTQ👑👸🇨🇦

[@davidbrown4823]

God bless CANADA.

[@Heikkinen0301]

God bless the Empire 🇫🇮❤️🇬🇧🇧🇲

[@histman3133]

The Empire upon which the sun never sets! For King and Empire!

[@SoftlyCosy]

*Music Played:* *The Maple Leaf Forever* - Former Canadian National Anthem *Het Wilhelmus* - Current Dutch National Anthem *Men of Harlech*

[@nanasimms]

thankyou

[@kenmills194]

🇨🇦 Up The Guards! 🍁

[@frankvangemert4259]

Today!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@industrialadhesive6357]

What’s the second song?

[@sethmarsh8798]

The National Anthem of the Netherlands

[@GabeChua]

Het Wilhelmus

[@QYRANG]

Well done GGHG!!!

[@maritimemom7991]

Where did this Canada go

[@jzzr345]

I was born in 1957 and raised here in Ontario . Yes where did it go .

[@robertmccardle5113]

Proudly to the battlefields of Europe and the world.

[@francism.carpentier3790]

Multiculturalism act by Pierre Trudeau... the fall of Canada.

[@iaaf_nw2367]

If you pulled this off in a US city with a US patriotic song, you would be called fascist, racist, and far right.

[@navairman1]

Wait until 11 Nov ceremonies are held. Any references to God or religion are banned. Military Chaplains, Padres are not to mention these things if military personnel are in attendance. So much respect for our veterans who fought for God and country. This comes straight from NDHQ.

[@chrissinclair8705]

Well thank God they're not in an Iltis. That fucker almost killed me during BTT. I'm scared of those damn things. What's worse is I was tasked with driving around our lieutenant for a few days in that deathtrap. Fuck that I'm retired, permanantly. No more iltis, please.

[@nickysimi9866]

Is the only reason this song isn't the canadian national anthem because of Quebec?

[@MrUltimategamer44]

Basically, although nowadays even if people did change their minds on it modern culture isn’t as accepting of the British vibe the song gives off

[@nickysimi9866]

@@MrUltimategamer44 that makes sense. I like this anthem better though tbh lol

[@MrUltimategamer44]

Nicky Simi the lyrics is definitely more patriotic. Even if they modernized the British parts to some extent and kept the overall theme it still would’ve been a great anthem

[@nickysimi9866]

@@MrUltimategamer44 or at least open up with the "at queenston heights and Lundy's lane" verse. And perhaps make it about canadian involvement in ww1 and ww2 or somethin. Like you said, modernise it abit

[@apollo1694]

@@nickysimi9866 No. Modernized tradition isn't tradition

[@NomNomm6063]

🇨🇦🫡 the only flag i fly. Comrades.

[@user-vu9bq2jv7x]

Does anyone know the name of the song after Dutch anthem? Thx

[@William-fl4qx]

Typical CAF ! badass all the way full stop …

[@josephstalin6549]

Funeral march of the pre-covid era

[@francis72thepro]

i'm dissapointed that they changed the national anthem

[@evansilva3045]

Trudeau seething

[@jzzr345]

LOL Yup .

[@MantridOne]

May as well play instruments. Don't have any weapons

[@Reynaertphotos]

What an abysmal city..

[@worldbridgeldn1162]

I love the Dutch national anthem but why would the Canadian army play it in the middle of Toronto. God Save The Queen would have been more appropriate after The Maple Leaf Forever.

[@nikobellic4203]

I think it's because Canada liberated them during WW2 from German occupiers

[@insertgoodname4987]

Princess Margriet of the Netherlands was born in Canada in WW2, since then the Netherlands and Canada had great relations.

[@AllAmericanWoman1390]

lol.. that's why there's history books out and readily available.

[@AngloAus]

Thought this was Canada, not China!

[@apollo1694]

What?

[@AngloAus]

@@apollo1694 too many asians.

[@apollo1694]

@@AngloAus Race and nationality are different things, unless you want Canada to be a white ethnostate, I don't get your point

[@curtiswong7280]

@@AngloAus Yes, because it's wrong to be of a certain colour. Right.

[@MarxismLeninismMaoism]

You do not understand Canadian values.

[@slabdab4202]

To bad they were mostly Chinese

[@willb1939]

I wonder where do you see mostly Chinese ? I see many White as well as other ethnic groups

[@jackpatyt6809]

TF you mean to bad

[@London_J]

Ewww toronto...

[@Shmendan2]

Wtf is your profile picture

[@LiberateAlberta1907]

As much as I don't like Toronto but please show respect to our Heroes in the video!! Your comment wasn't called for!

[@TorontoSportsNetwork2]

Eww western leachers

[@LiberateAlberta1907]

@@TorontoSportsNetwork2 Excuse me. It's not the West who does that it's East. Those in Ontario and Quebec. They are the ones l. eeching billions of dollars from Alberta every year.

[@TorontoSportsNetwork2]

@@LiberateAlberta1907 nice conspiracy theory. Go ahead and secede from Canada. Nobody in Ontario would give two F's. Your one trick pony economy based on fracking led to your own downfall. Don't blame Ontario for being smart.

[@Sti2348]

God bless Canada!