Across Canadian height and plain,

Ye sound us in triumphant tone

The summons of your high refrain.


[NOTES]

Lord Dufferin (Frederick Blackwood), 1826-92: Governor-General of Canada, 1872-8.

Jacques Cartier, 1491-1557: explored the St. Lawrence, 1535-42.

Count de Monts, 1560-1611: a Huguenot gentleman of the French Court, had a patent for the colonisation of Acadia (Nova Scotia) from 1603 to 1607.

Samuel Champlain, 1567-1635: interested in Canada, 1603-35: founded Quebec, 1608.