'The Maple leaf forever' Former Canadian anthem (full 4 verses)

[@Christo_glenn]

Having been born in the late 90's, I feel like I have missed out on growing up in a Canada that once had a real identity. A Canada where you could be proud of your nation and it's interests without being labelled as an "extremist" or a "far-right" activist. Today's Canada feels like a disjointed, faceless husk with no identity, other than a very vacuous, superficial one. Instead of embracing the culture of British, French and Aboriginal ancestors, we have replaced it with the failed concept of multiculturalism, sprinkled with American influence. With that said, I myself am proud of my history. My great grandfather came from England and married to my Cree great grandmother. I'm proud of my roots. Both Anglo and and aboriginal.

[@jimjimmers8571]

So much of our culture is forgotten or ignored now-a-days just so we can learn American bullcrap instead. It’s not nice watching hundreds of cultures and customs across provinces and regions all be mixed into one pot, in media and minds, because Yankees can’t wrap their heads around us all NOT sounding like stereotypical natives, living in igloos or saying “eh” after every vowel. To them we are one people, no difference between Newfie or Albertan or Nunavummiuq.

[@thearchivest]

screw castro junior!

[@1985Fritz]

You are absolutely right and as young person, you give me hope for the future of our Canada. Our family came here as refugees after WW 2. I was 6 at the time and I learned about the rich history and various traditions of this great land. English was our second language and we learned it eagerly. We never demanded that the "government" should finance special language classes and community centres to celebrate the cultures of the places we were forced to leave as a result of the wars and political upheavals. Our parents worked long hours to provide a roof over our heads and put food on the table. We were considered "poor" like other immigrants in our neighbourhood, but we didn't know we were poor or disadvantaged or "marginalized" because nobody told us we were. I went to school with kids from a score of nationalities and faiths (Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and "none of the above". We played together on our street and got to know the cops that walked the beat. We were Eastern European, Asian, of British, French and Aboriginal ancestry. Our strength was not our "diversity" but our acceptance of one another and our friendship. Did we argue and disagree sometimes? Of course. That's a reality of human nature, but none of that threatened our friendship as neighbours and classmates. My mother called Canada the "Promised Land" and never looked back. Even when our home country finally threw off the shackles of Communism, she had no desire to go back to visit. We were Canadian now, un-hyphenated with one loyalty to Canada. I had the privilege of serving in the Canadian Army during the Cold War as my way of giving back a little for all this country had given us. My daughter and son-in-law (born in the 80's) have given me five beautiful grandchildren who are being raised with those same values. Thank you, thank you! You have made my day!

[@EmperorsKriegsman]

It's exactly the same down under in Australia. I look at our culture in the cold war, and what I see is a Nation, whilst having it's roots in British Culture, created this Identity of the Bushman, and it led to this amazing fusion of out two cultures into this wonderful thing. The nation was Patriotic and Proud. One of our most iconic songs, Waltzing Matilda, which incapsulates out culture so well, I haven't herd in public for years, our anthem (Advance Australia Fair) is only played at important events. The bushman yet Proud commonwealth culture we had dissolved into something so akin to life in America. I have, since a very young age, despised American influence on our country, and have always, without fail, preferred and supported the commonwealth over it.

[@MisatoBestWoman]

I’m glad I have my replica Red Ensign! The maple leaf forever!

[@KomputerKid]

God save our King and heaven bless is now official again. Too bad we’ll probably never hear it in a modern recording.

[@rocksandforestquiver959]

Nah someone's gonna do it, there are many songs that could use revival and plenty of small-time folk musicians across the country. Just takes one with the proper leanings and maybe a suggestion from a historically-savvy friend ;)

[@1985Fritz]

Nice patriotic song, but it NEVER was Canada's official anthem.

[@EwanCummins]

Ah, the real Canadian anthem.

[@thearchivest]

indeed

[@stuartgilroy]

Alexander Muir was my dad's mom's grandfather, thank you for posting this!

[@stuartthompson8976]

Wonderful. Makes me happy :)

[@IESVSCHRISTVSDOMINVSNOSTEREST]

This is one of the most beautiful and fit-for-purpose anthems I've ever heard, and I'm deeply offended I've lived thus far without knowing it. This is a great example of embracing an evolutionary identity rather than a revolutionary identity. Both ways of thinking of your people come with pros and cons as seen between the US and England (I'm picking out England, rather than the UK at large for reasons unrelated to the point). The US, because of their explicit redefinition of their identity, codified all their rights as Englishmen into legally binding documents and bound them within a modern legal/political system with very little room for interpretation. This guaranteed such rights' survival in the US longer than in England, but it came at the cost of them disposing of all ancient rights older than 1776 and the larger identity with it. So Americans were forced to either fill the gaps in culture and folklore that were previously occupied by figures like the previous kings, with figures that never intended to be legendary and thus violate and recategorize their supposed heroes, OR they'd have to reject traditional culture as a whole and just live as a nation with rights and a modern political system INSTEAD OF morality and a culture passed down 100 generations and inherited by all. England has the opposite problem, she kept the rights of her people as unwritten cultural understandings and political traditions and thus when dedicated neophiles set their minds to eroding our rights as Englishmen all the way down until we recognised nothing but the global (non-English-derived) human rights and some material entitlements, they completely succeeded as knowing something is wrong isn't enough to stop bad actors if your population don't fight back. However, the culture of England stayed stronger than the American culture did, keeping memory of thousand year old kings well into the late 20th century. This anthem serves as a perfect example of inheriting a culture and continuing it even if you are far from the land of your forefathers and acknowledging and adding to it the elements that have organically arisen on your patch of the diaspora, the maple leaf alongside the rose, thistle, and clover (and the leek because the Welsh are technically people too). The brief usage of 'God Save the King' was the cherry on top. Wonderful anthem. It is an absolute injustice that modern Canadians have been robbed of their ancient ethnic culture and are only publicly allowed to proclaim their recently invented civic culture. Canada is a land AND a people, and the people are more than just inhabitants of that land, they have an actual history. God save them and the rest of the Anglosphere.

[@hibernii]

Great old recording! 🍁☘

[@austriangrenadier7181]

There is a severe lack of Nationalism and Monarchism in Canada. We desperately need pride in our King and Dominion

[@renysagala6806]

We can use this now

[@thearchivest]

my cat stood up when this started

[@mightymystery9204]

That sounds like a WWI recording, when patriotic songs proliferated. I had never heard the whole anthem, although I recall a stanza being played in an old cinema production. I notice, ironically, that Wales was not mentioned, yet the range and feeling reminded me of the Welsh anthem.

[@foundationofBritain]

Constitutionally, Wales was and still is a part of England (that's to say the realm, commonwealth and Kingdom of England), not to dissimilar to what the two Royal *English* Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster were. Wales is therefor a Principality of England (the realm, commonwealth and Kingdom thereof), or an "English" Principality to rephrase it. The word Dominion was often used to describe Wales, as was "country" but that word originally meant something like "region" dose today hence why people referred to "Africa" as a "country", it's only in the modern day that words such as "country", "State" and "Nation" are used as synonyms despite them not actually being synonyms. Dominion meant something like realm which also 'could' and now dose in some regard mean something like "State" as dose "Crown" in the context of "State's" meaning "the State in all its aspects", commonwealth also means something like "State" but a "State" established for the common good or "wealth" as in its old meaning of "wealth" that being "well being", hence the phrase the "commonwealth" meaning our modern phrase "public health" or "public well being", it also meant a "polity", though that word (commonwealth) is also a mistranslation of "res-publica" which is where we get the word "republic" from, which also naturally meant practically the same thing which was "any system of government not tyrannical" basically meaning a "mixed government" i.e. a mix of Monarchy, Aristocracy and democratic elements, commonwealth is thus closer to its original political meaning then "republic" has, as that is now often defined purely by being "anti-monarchical" and commonwealth has now a more "monarchical" meaning what with the phrase "commonwealth realm" albeit used to describe the realm's of the King of England.

[@1812AndMore]

What's old is new again!

[@xandercruz900]

The perfect anthem that exemplifies what was "British North America". Always odd how the UK just really was nonchalant about the place. Canada all but wanting to be a part of Britain, and Britain treating them like a clingy girlfriend. In the end it just feels like Canada lost its soul when the "old flag" and this anthem faded into history.

[@aprenderconjulio]

Long Love of Canada 🇨🇦

[@raymondmallais6375]

Drapeau rare ont ne vois pas ça souvent

[@SamuelAdkins-j1h]

Canadas flag and anthem.

[@360pesot8]

🍁>⭐

[@Matt-p4b]

I fly the red ensign on my property.

[@thearchivest]

that one neighbor: well um actually! you're supposed to use the stupid red and white one!

[@kellycook5314]

🫡🇨🇦

[@snareplayer1]

This was NEVER our National Anthem. It was a patriotic type song somewhat like the US God Bless America

[@stgr0186]

Although it was never official and Canada as part of the Empire had God Save the King as an official anthem, The maple leaf was very commonly used as a representative anthem for Canada both in Canada and abroad in various occasions. It's like the US before the current anthem became official in 1931 when until then they unofficially used Hail Columbia or My Country Tis of thee.

[@rocksandforestquiver959]

Real anthems don't need the approval of lawmakers

[@servantofaeie1569]

​@@rocksandforestquiver959If they did, Sweden would have no anthem.

[@TJ1920]

don’t like the lyrics prefer bilingual version of Oh 🇨🇦 Canada

[@1985Fritz]

It might come as a shock to most uni-lingual Anglo Canadians, but the French lyrics refer to the Cross being brought to Canada by the early French settlers. I'm sure there are those who would be "outraged" and "offended" by the reference to Christianity. Probably most sensible people regardless of faith or no faith, wouldn't be bothered by that, but there are always the "woke" activists who are "triggered" by anything these days. Some of them sit in the Commons and in the Senate, mostly on the current Government and NDP and BLOC side.

[@yusufDhillon]

long live a republic.

[@whatonearth9809]

No

[@yusufDhillon]

@@whatonearth9809 YES

[@setonix9151]

God save the King!

[@thinkwithaportal]

No republic, the monarchy units us and brings political stability.