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Old 03-31-2011, 10:04 AM   #4
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Default Re: Canadian Road Songs

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Originally Posted by charlene View Post
http://www.thestar.com/travel/northa...lebrate-canada

The Juno Awards, honouring the best in Canadian music, will be held in Toronto this weekend. With that in mind, here’s a look at some of the best travel-related songs with a Canadian theme. When the geography isn’t in the title, we’ve added the general location in parentheses. Got other suggestions or things we missed? Drop us a line at travel@thestar.ca.
Yes well CRT is by no means the only glaring omission
As every Lighthead knows there are oodles of relevant ditties by the Bard

Off the top of my head there is
Let It Ride (Windsor and Montreal)

There is as Tim mentioned (while I was composing my own reply) the quintessential travel orientated Hiway Songs that includes this immortal verse:-
Just for now I'd like to rest
In the shade of a maple tree
To the blue Canadian sky
I'll say a prayer for the world out there

and as Yuri knows there is a song about the punctuality of trains in Horndean


Echoes Of Heroes was apparently inspired by the War Memorial in Ottawa


Nous Vivons Ensemble mentions The Plains Of Abraham in Quebec City

and of course there is


Yonge Street

and


Christian Island


Plus the closely related pair about Orillia

Couchiching

and

Did She Mention My Name

That's it for starters
No doubt there are others and when we are done our Maderator person could forward the list to


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