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Originally Posted by habernac

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald may be the best Canadian song ever written.

CBC disagrees also:
Four Stong Winds - Ian and Sylvia
Great song, and I can see the merits of it.

In 2005, CBC Radio One listeners chose this song as the greatest Canadian song of all time on the series 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version.

Personally, I am partial to:

Acadian Driftwood - The Band

Even though Levon Helm was the only non-Canadian in the band the story of the song is friggan cool and about early North American history that shaped what was to become Canada.

"Acadian Driftwood" is a partly fictional portrayal of an episode in the troubled history of Acadia, the Great Upheaval. The song describes the forcible displacement of the Acadian people after war between the French and the English over what is now Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and part of Maine.
Robbie Robertson's lyrics were influenced by Longfellow's poem Evangeline, which describes the deportation of Acadians.
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Robertson took poetic license with the historical record. Deportations began not when "the war was over", in 1763 after the Treaty of Paris, but in 1755 after the English victory in the Battle of Fort Beauséjour (in present-day New Brunswick). "What went down on the Plains of Abraham" was the Battle of Quebec in 1759--the decisive battle of the war, but still years after the deportations.