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Canada Is Seen Without Collective Song To Sing

By CAROLYN WILLET’I‘ Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA ICPl —- Is Canada a

nation without a common song to sing?

Any call for a rendition of the national a nth em, it appears, would result in two choruses—one singing 0 Canada, the other God Suave the Queen.

The Maple Leaf Forever. once I possible choice, seems less pop- ular today.

On a national level, the statute books are bare of any definition of what the national anthem is.

Since 1948 an orderinacounci] dealing with military regulations has stipulated that officers and men shall salute if wearing heads dress or stand at attention, if barehead-ed, “t h r o u g bout the playing of the national anthem, O Canada, or a foreign national anthem." ‘

These regulations altered 1939 military orders which did not mentionlo Canada.

NOT DEFINED

Although in the ord‘er-in-council the national anthem is taken to mean God Save the Queen, it is not further defined.

Two federal cabinet ministers have said that in their opinion.

God Save the Queen. rather than ‘

0 Canada, is Canada's national anthem. .

Citizenship Minister Ellen Fair- cloutglh says “it’s slightly ridicul. ous" to name any other song. Revenue Minister Nowlan agrees with Mrs. Faircllouglh that 0 Can— ada is a “nice” national song, but not the national anthem.

Mrs. Fairclough was comment. in; on a dispute in Toronto caused when three city control— lers walk-ed out of a banquet given by the Native Sons of Can- ada—a group which makes Cana- dian birth a condition of member- ship and contends 0 Canada is the national anthem. -

An external attains department spokesman said that Canadian missions abroad are authorized to use either song, or both. 0 Can tide was usually used when an official occasion called for a ren- dition distinctivelyCanadian. This would include occasions where Canada participated along with Gtreatthiltain or other Com- monwealth members using God Save the Queen.

Mrs. K. V. Draper, regent of Ottawa’s municipal Imperial Otr- der Daughters of the Empire chapter, said the national organ- ization has asked- the fedemal gov- ernment to recognize God Save the Queen as the national anthem and O Canada. as the national song. The IlO'DE uses The Queen at its meetings.

’l‘ICKlLISH ISSUE

- Politically ticklish, the anthem issue came up to the Blouse of, Conmns in 1955 when then prime minister Louis St. Laurent asked members to rise and sing “the Royal anthem” on the offi- cial celebration of the Queen’s birthday.

Questioned in the House about his use of the team. Mir. St. Laur. ent sail he had given no prev- ious thought to the way it should be described. '

At that time Prime Minister

Drief-entbalker, then an opposition

member of Parliament/asked '

Mr. St. Laurent: “Is it not a fact that God Save the Queen is our national a —

Mr. St. Laurent replied that, to his knowledge, it has never been adopted by any act of Parlia. ment,mesolution or cabinet proc- lamation.

Later the same yranr MI. St. Laurent ‘in an address to the Trades and Labor Congress indi- cated he believed 0 Canada- was

becoming the national anthem by ‘

general acceptance and did not

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The Encyclopedia Canadiana states that it is not known when God Save the Queen—«with a 200- year - history and a distinctive royalist flavor in its earliest Lon- don performances—was first pub- licly played in Canada.

The encyclopedia lists 0 Can- ada. God Save the Queen and The Maple Leaf Forever as the “na- tional” songs of Canada.

0 Canada in its English ver- sions is a musical marriage of

posed the music in one night to celebrate the official visit. of the Marquis of Lorne, then governor- general, to Quebec City in 1880.

The original French - language words were written by Sir Adolphe Routhier, onetime chief justice of Quebec. ABOUT 20 VERSIONS

Some 20 English versions—us- ing Laval-lee’s music—«have been published. The words most widely used are those of Hon. R. Stanley Weir of Montreal, a former judge of the Exchequer Court of Can— ada, who wrote his version for

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native land!

True patriotlove in all sons command.

Willi glowing hearts we see chc rise.

The true North.

thy

strong and

free. ’ And stand on guard, 0 Can- ada.

We stand on guard for thee. O Canada, glorious and free on guard for thee. 0 Canada, we stand on guanl‘ for thee. We stand on guard, we stand Dr. James Gibson, historian and dean of ants at Carleton Uni» versity here who wrote the eniy~ clorpedia article, said in an inter- view some of the English versions are “completely different." MOST POPULAR _ He attributed the Weir ver- sion‘s popularity to the fact that

Clubs and several other organ— izations.

The Weir version was printed

in an official form for the diamond jubilee of the Canadian :cheration in 1927 and during the £1939 royal visit. I Dr. Gibson recalled that in 'British Columbia in the 19305 a jgenerally used version was one written by a bank manager and was known as the “Buchan ver- sion."

The Buchan .version:

0 Canada! Our heritage, our

love.

My worth we praise all other

lands above.

From sea to sea throughout

thy length

From Pole to border land

At Britain’s side, what ’ere

betide

Unflinchingly we‘ll stand.

j And prosper Canada from l

, shore to shorr.

I The Canadian Citizenship Coun- jcil. coordinating body for na- itional organizations doing citizen- gship work has expressed its offi- Ecial “hope” that Canada will {have both a national anthem and ‘a national flag by its 100th birth- day in. 1967.

The correspondence columns of Canadian newspapers have had their share of comments on the issue.

In at least one province— Ontario—the playing of God Save the Queen, or at least six bars of it is a statutory requirement at the end of theatrical perform- ances and it is widely accepted

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