O Canada (Weir)

For works with similar titles, see O Canada.

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Versions of
O Canada (1908)
by Robert Stanley Weir

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In 1908, Collier Magazine held a contest for the best English-language lyrics to the French song "Ô Canada" by Calixa Lavallée and Adolphe-Basile Routhier. Weir's lyrics did not win the competition, but were the most popular among the public. Routhier's and Weir's texts were both adopted (with some alterations) as the national anthem of Canada by the National Anthem Act (1985).

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Versions of O Canada include:

"O Canada", original version by Robert Stanley Weir (1908).
"O Canada" in The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1916).
"O Canada" in the National Anthem Act (1985), official version adopted as national anthem in 1985.
"O Canada", official version adopted in 1985, distributed as a bookmark by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
"O Canada" in An Act to amend the National Anthem Act (gender) (2018), official version with modifications adopted in 2018.