Soon after the Great Rebellion was over, and this Nation was in the height of reconstruction...a young man..a musician by trade . A musician who hailed from lower Canada and served with great distinction in the U.S. Army. 4th Rhodes Island Vol Infantry. A man who was wounded on the fields at Antietam and would--while on the mend, stand his ground on the fields near the Peach Orchards of Gettysburg. as a flanking unit of Lt Col George A. Custer and a 400 member Cuban contingent, as the Battle of south Cavalry filed took shape. That man would later pen the music to a poem , that would become the 2nd National of any country. His name --Calixia LaVallee ..the tune O Canada. This man s army records have been altered by the U.S. Army , however, the Canadian Archives not only provided me his record--but also his photo in Uniform O Canada is the national anthem of Canada. The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony; Calixa Lavallée wrote the music as a setting of a French Canadian patriotic poem composed by poet and judge Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier. The lyrics were originally in French and translated into English in 1906. Robert Stanley Weir wrote in 1908 another English version, which is the official and most popular version, one that is not a literal translation of the French. Weirs lyrics have been revised twice, taking their present form in 1980, but the French lyrics remain unaltered. O Canada had served as a de facto national anthem since 1939, officially becoming Canadas national anthem in 1980 when the Act of Parliament making it so received Royal Assent and became effective on July 1 as part of that years Dominion Day celebrations
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