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    "Alouette!"

    "Alouette!" The most popular Canadian folksong. It also has become a symbol of French Canada for the world, an unofficial national song identifiable from the first few measures of its lively chorus in 2/4 time. Marius Barbeau is of the opinion that "Alouette" originated in France, but James J. Fuld, in The Book of World-Famous Music (New York 1966), points out that the first written version, "Alouetté," appeared in A Pocket Song Book for the Use of Students and Graduates of McGill College (Montreal 1879). The song was published later as "Alouette" in the McGill College Song Book (Montreal 1885). The first known printed version in France dates from 1893: it appeared in Julien Tiersot's Revue des traditions populaires, vol 8 (Paris). The words and music are found in many anthologies and collections in Canada, the USA, and even Europe, notably in William Parker Greenough's Canadian Folk-life and Folk-lore (New York 1897). Several versions exist in Canada. Marius Barbeau summarizes the different texts in a work appropriately named Alouette (Montreal 1946). However, in all versions of the song, with its enumerations and frequent recapitulations, the idea remains the same: the lark's feathers are plucked from its head, wings, back, tail, and so on.

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    "Bluebird on Your Windowsill"

    "Bluebird on Your Windowsill." Pop song by the Vancouver nurse (Carmen) Elizabeth Clarke (b Winnipeg 1911, d Vancouver 1960). The words (1947) were inspired by a small bird which perched on a windowsill of Vancouver's Hospital for Sick and Crippled Children. The melody was added later.

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    "Canadian Idol"

    "Canadian Idol." Reality television show, based on the British singing competition television show "Pop Idol" (2001- ), created by the UK's FremantleMedia and 19 TV, and produced by Canada's Insight Productions.

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    "Early Morning Rain"

    "Early Morning Rain." Song by Gordon Lightfoot. Written in the summer of 1964, it recounts a lonely man's attempts to make his way back to a faraway home.

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    "If You Could Read My Mind"

    "If You Could Read My Mind." Song by Gordon Lightfoot. Written in 1969, "catches the cadences of a hurt lover unused to words that cut too close" (Maclean's, 1 May 1978). The song has been recorded more than 100 times, first in 1969 by the composer for his LP Sit Down Young Stranger.

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    "Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor"

    "Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor." A loose retelling of the biblical Jonah story with a Newfoundland fisherman as the hero, this folksong seems to have been adapted from the New York music-hall song "Every Inch a Sailor."

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    "She's Like the Swallow"

    "She's Like the Swallow." Distinctive Newfoundland variant of a large family of songs about unhappy love. Both Maud Karpeles (1930) and Kenneth Peacock (1960) collected it, and its beautiful tune has made it popular with many singers and choirs.

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    "Squid Jiggin' Ground"

    ​This account of hijinks on the squid-fishing grounds is one of Newfoundland's best-known songs.

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    "The Anti-Confederation Song"

    "The Anti-Confederation Song" is a folksong that originated around the time of the heated 1869 election, in which Newfoundland was to decide whether or not to join the newly formed Dominion of Canada. (See Election of 1896.)

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    R v Coffin

    R v Coffin In the summer of 1953 the bodies of 3 American hunters were found in a Gaspé forest. Wilbert Coffin, a local prospector, was charged with and convicted of the murder of one of them, Richard Lindsay.

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    Gladue Case

    The Gladue case (also known as R. v. Gladue) is a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision, handed down on 23 April 1999, which advises that lower courts should consider an Indigenous offender’s background and make sentencing decisions accordingly, based on section 718.2 (e) of the Criminal Code.

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    Clifford Olson Case

    Clifford Olson was a serial killer who murdered 11 children in British Columbia in the early 1980s. He gained further notoriety by receiving money in exchange for revealing the sites of his victims’ bodies. Olson died of cancer in prison in 2011.

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    R v Truscott

    R v Truscott In 1959, 14-year-old Steven Truscott was convicted in adult court of the murder of 12-year-old Lynn Harper. Few cases in Canadian legal history have created so much controversy.

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    Rabbits in Canada

    Rabbit is a common name for some mammals of the order Lagomorpha. The young (leverets), born in fur-lined nests, are naked, blind and helpless in contrast to the hairy, well-developed leverets of hares. Gestation lasts 26–30 days, with 2–7 leverets per litter and usually 3–4 litters per year. Leverets are nursed for 16–22 days and leave the nest after about two weeks. Family units are often formed, lasting up to seven weeks. Females frequently mate within three days after the birth of a litter, while still nursing. Female rabbits are usually larger than males.

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    Rabbit Farming

    Rabbit farming, officially called cuniculture (from the species name for wild rabbits, Oryctolagus cuniculus), is a small part of Canadian agriculture, with most production in Ontario and Québec.

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