O Canada!

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O Canada! Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all our lives command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
the True North strong and free!
From far and wide, O Canada,
we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

Source: Celebrating Grace Hymnal #700

Author (French): A. B. Routhier

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Author (English): Robert Stanley Weir

Weir, Robert Stanley. (Hamilton, Ontario, November 15, 1856--August 20, 1926, Lake Memphremagog, Quebec). Unitarian. McGill University (Montreal), B.C.L., 1881; D.C.L., 1897. He took up law after training, and working for some years, as a schoolteacher. He began to pratise law in Montreal in 1881, and taught it at McGill 1909-1920, as well as writing articles on it, and publishing verse and prose in magazines. For the tercentenary of Quebec City (1908) he composed an English version of "O Canada" which, as kept insisting for the rest of his life, was not an attempted translation of the French lyric which Judge Adolphe B. Routhier had written for the 1880 St-Jean-Baptiste celebrations at Quebec, but an independent poem constructed to pit the… Go to person page >

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50 Favorite Dutch Hymns #38

Ambassador Hymnal #634

American Student Hymnal #d208

Armed Forces Service Book for Public and Private Use. 2nd rev. ed. #d62

Army and Navy Service Book for Public and Private Use. Rev. ed. #d53

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Baptist Hymnal 2008 #647

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Catholic Book of Worship III #695

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Celebrating Grace Hymnal #700

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Children's Hymnal #214

Common Praise (1998) #659

Divine Service Book for the Armed Forces #d136

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Evangelical Lutheran Worship #892

Hymns and Prayers for Schools #d34

Hymns for Schools, with Supplement #43

Hymns of Faith and Life #545

Hymns of the Christian Life #591

Hymns of the Christian Life. Rev. ed. #d312

Hymns of the Christian Life. Rev. ed. #591

Praise and Worship #436

Praise and Worship #436

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Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book #544

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Sing Joyfully #605

Sing Your Way Home #78

Songs for Worship #d111

Songs of Praise for Schools #d48

Songs of Praise for Schools #d53

Songs of Praise for Schools #d69

Songs of the Gospel #d93

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Sunday School Hymns No. 2 (Canadian ed.) #26

Sweet Hour of Prayer #d46

The Book of Common Praise #326a

The Book of Praise #596

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The Book of Praise #800

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The Book of Praise #833

The Canadian Youth Hymnal #164

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The Celebration Hymnal #806

The Christian Life Hymnal #606

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The Church Hymnal #508

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The Cyber Hymnal #4724

The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada #217

The Hymnal #d316

The Hymnal #490

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The Worshiping Church #424

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Voices United #524

Welsh and English Hymns and Anthems #IX

Welsh and English Hymns and Anthems (Reformatted) #VIII

Worship His Majesty #614

Youth Inspiral #d67

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