Canada is for Kids Volume 2 CD

Fun songs of Canada!

Volume 2 includes: 

Black Fly Song – seen on a National Film Board vignette about the nasty little beasts that inhabit North Ontario;

Coal Town Road – about the hard life of coal miners and the ‘pit ponies’ that used to work beside them;

Headed for Canada – the story of an Irish immigrant sailing to Canada to escape the hardships of his native home;

Little Old Sod Shanty – a prairie so buster’s life on a government claim;

Au chante de l’Alouette – a traditional French Canadian voyageur and coureur de bois song;

We’re All Looking for a Dinosaur– Michael wrote this one for Sesame Street about the dinosaurs that used to roam this land;

Water – Michael wrote this one for what we consider ‘good’ water and ‘bad’ water in this country;

Where the Coho Flash Silver – A west coast salmon trawler’s quest for those famous silver fishes;

Un canadien Errant – An exquisitely orchestrated and mournful tune about the MacKenzie – Papineau Rebellion of 1837;

Red River Cart Song – the pioneer trek to Edmonton along the Calgary Trail;

Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor – another rousing Newfoundland favourite;

Land of the Silver Birch – a paddling song with a more aboriginal perspective;

Maple Sugar Time – Michael wrote this about a favourite Eastern Canadian pastime — gathering up the maple syrup and having fun at a traditional cabane a sucre.