O Canada
Episode description
"O Canada" was far from destined to become our national anthem. This underdog composition, however, swept the country and stole our hearts. This week, we cover what drove Calixa Lavalle and Adolphe-Basile Routhier to write "O Canada" in 1880 and how it was adopted by the Canadian government as the official national anthem 100 years later. That's right. 100 years later. And if you've always felt kinda mild about "O Canada" like Linnea... let's just say it could have been a whole lot worse.
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Editor's Note: Hi, it's Grace (I'm wearing my editor hat right now). We recorded this in Linnea's apartment instead of at the studio and my mic decided to record my voice too slowly (how rude). So after some rage and anguish, I managed to sync the audio to the point where it is listenable. However, it is not our typical super-high-quality sonic experience. Apologies for that but please enjoy! We love this episode!