Minute Women

"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.

Les Voltigeurs of Quebec Heritage Minute: historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/les-voltigeurs-de-quebec

Minute Women Podcast: minutewomenpodcast.ca

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!

Show Notes

"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.
 
Les Voltigeurs de Quebec

Minute Women Podcast

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!

What is Minute Women?

Minute Women is your weekly dose of Canadian history and corny 90s nostalgia. We are best friends Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer and we are on a mission to tell the untold stories behind the iconic Canadian Heritage Minutes. Along the way, we uncover the funny, weird, and downright terrifying stories left out of Canada’s national history.

Did you know John A. Macdonald's younger brother was murdered in a freak gin incident? Or that Sandford Fleming was going to call standard time "cosmic time"? Or that Governor Frontenac was a legendary jerk?

Well, neither did we! Join us to learn more! A not-so-proud part of our national heritage.