ISBN: 0385194994

Description:

• 249 pages : music., illustrations ; 26 cm
• score

Other Title: Canada's story in song.

Notes:

• Previous ed. published in 1960 by W.J. Gage Ltd. had title: Canada's story in song.
• Includes index.
• Canadiana.
• Bibliography: pages 238-245.

Contents:

• Before the white man. Iroquois lullaby ; Salish song of longing ; Tsimshian song of welcome to a chief ; Inuit weather chant
• The discovery of Canada. Haul on the bowline ; À St. Malo, beau port de mer ; À la claire fontaine ; Vive les matelots! ; Ave, maris stella
• Voyageurs and missionaries. En roulant ma boule ; Huron carol ; Tenaouich' tenaga, Ouich'ka! ; Petit rocher
• The coming of the English. Golden vanity ; Courte paille ; Ballad of New Scotland ; Brave Wolfe ; General Wolfe
• Wars against the United States. Revolutionary tea ; Marching down to old Quebec ; Sergent ; Come all you bold Canadians ; Battle of Queenston Heights ; Chesapeake and the Shannon
• The rebellion of 1837-38. Farewell to Mackenzie ; Anti-rebel song ; Sir Robert Peel ; Battle of the windmill ; Canadien errant
• The country grows. Indian's lament ; Honest Irish lad ; Sally Greer ; Scarborough settler's lament ; Free slave
• Toward Confederation. Fenian song ; Anti-Fenian song ; Anti-Confederation song ; Prince Edward Isle, Adieu! ; Maple Leaf forever ; O Canada!
• The opening of the West. Rose blanche ; Falcon's song ; Riel's retreat ; Riel's letter ; Red River Valley ; Pork, beans, and hard tack ; Toronto volunteers ; Between the Forks and Carleton ; Riel's farewell
• Sailors and fishermen. Franklin Expedition ; Crocodile ; Fish of the sea ; Old Polina ; Noble fleet of sealers ; Song of the sockeye
• Shantyboys. Shantyboy's alphabet ; Raftsmen ; Hogan's Lake ; Johnny Doyle ; Scow on Cowden's Shore ; Jones boys ; Greenhorn
• Cowboys and homesteaders. Old Chisholm Trail ; Dying outlaw ; Little old sod shanty ; Alberta homesteader ; Life in a prairie shack ; Red River Valley II ; Poor little girls of Ontario ; Saskatchewan girl's lament ; Harvest excursion
• Miners and prospectors. Farewell to Canada ; Far from home ; Teaming up the Cariboo Road ; Klondike! ; When the ice-worms nest again ; Cobalt song
• Railroad men. Railroad boy ; Drill, ye heroes, drill! ; C.P.R. Line ; Chauffe fort! ; Jerry, go ile the car ; Iron ore by the 'Fifty-four'
• Industrial conflict. Where the Fraser River flows ; Bowser's Seventy-Twa ; Estevan strike
• The Depression. Hard, hard times ; Saskatchewan ; Flunky Jim ; Black fly song.

Subjects:

• Canada -- History -- Songs and music -- Scores.
• Folk songs -- Canada -- Scores.

Genre:

• Music.
• Saskatchewan author.
• Scores.
• Songs.

Other Authors: Mills, Alan, 1912-1977.