Un Canadien errant

song by Gérin-Lajoie

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"Un Canadien errant" (A Wandering Canadian) is a song composed by Antoine Gérin-Lajoie during his college years. It was written to evoke the sentiments of those who were exiled following the rebellions of 1837–38 in Canada. Gérin-Lajoie was a writer, librarian, and a significant figure in the early literary movement of French Canada. He also authored plays, historical accounts, and novels that depicted rural life in French Canada.1

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Antoine Gérin-Lajoie
…college years, Gérin-Lajoie composed “Un Canadien errant” (“A Wandering Canadian”), a song that invoked those exiled after the rebellions of 1837–38. He also wrote an early French Canadian play, the tragedy Le Jeune Latour (1844; “The Young Latour”). While on the staff of the Montreal newspaper La Minerve, of…
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…college years, Gérin-Lajoie composed “Un Canadien errant” (“A Wandering Canadian”), a song that invoked those exiled after the rebellions of 1837–38. He also wrote an early French Canadian play, the tragedy Le Jeune Latour (1844; “The Young Latour”). While on the staff of the Montreal newspaper La Minerve, of…
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