Gordon Lightfoot became an international celebrity. But, to me, he was quintessentially Canadian. Back in 1965, as a university freshman, I attended a concert he gave as part of our Winter Carnival festivities. He ended the concert with his Canadian Railroad Trilogy.
He sang of a country that had existed
Long before The White Man
And long before The Wheel
When the green dark forest
Was too silent to be real.
He made Canada real.
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