A year or two ago, something came up about Bobby Gimby鈥檚 Ca-na-da song and I asked my children (I have five) if they knew it and only one remembers.
She was seven years old at the time and she said we sang it at school and all the kids loved it. Shortly after this I was at a function where the Naden Band was playing. They played God Save the Queen, of course, and Land of Hope and Glory, Rule Britannia and others.
During a rest period I asked a band member about the Can-a-da song and he never heard of it. An older member spoke up and he said: 鈥淚t is in the back of our songbook but we never play it.鈥� So sad!
Fifty years ago our mint printed one dollar bills with the serial numbers 1867-1967 printed on all of them. I purchased several of them from the bank and will now give them to my children and grandchildren to have fun trying to cash them or maybe save them for another 50 years.
If Ottawa can do just one thing to celebrate our 150th, I hope that they will create our own homegrown oath of allegiance.
It is hard to believe that a 150-year-old country still pledges its loyalty to a European monarchy some many thousands of miles away. 鈥� Lloyd Davies