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O Canada!

in English by Robert Stanley Weir (1856-1926)
in French by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier (1839-1920)
music composed by Calixa Lavallée (1842-1891)

In celebration of Canada Day, 2006, LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of O Canada!. If you prefer English or French, spoken or sung, you will find a version that suits you here! This was the Weekly Poetry project for the week of June 25th, 2006.
(Summary by Annie Coleman)

• E-text in English
• E-text in French
• Sheet Music
• Wikipedia – Robert Stanley Weir
• Wikipedia – Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier
• Wikipedia – Calixa Lavallée
• Wikipedia – O Canada!
• Wikipedia – Canada Day
• LibriVox’s O Canada! Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire project (5.2MB)
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mp3 and ogg files

• Version 1 – Read in French – 00:01:03
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  Read by: Andrew Miller
• Version 2 – Sung in French – 00:01:50
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  [mp3@128kbps - 1.7MB]
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  Read by: Christiane Levesque
• Version 3 – Read in French – 00:00:54
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  Read by: Christiane Levesque
• Version 4 – Read in English – 00:01:10
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  [ogg vorbis - 0.6MB]
  Read by: Andrew Miller
• Version 5 – Sung in English – 00:01:29
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  Read by: Christiane Levesque
• Version 6 – Read in English – 00:00:43
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  Read by: Esther Lockwood
• Version 7 – Read in English – 00:00:54
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  Read by: Elizabeth Palmer
• Version 8 – Sung in English – 00:01:26
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  Read by: Karen Savage
• Version 9 – Read in English – 00:00:30
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  Read by: Matthew Royal
• Version 10 – Read in English – 00:00:46
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  Read by: Tyler