Talk:Gens du pays

Lyrics
I added French lyrics with an English translation beside it... feel free to modify that if you want, I'm not a professional translator. Also if someone wants to try to format that to look better than I could do, that would be great. Ctimbury 03:10, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikisource Link
I am going to remove the Wikisource link as the is unfourtunely no source text to linked to. If someone creates such an article at wikisource then it sould be returned to the page. Benw 03:04, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

other/original meaning re fur trade
Forgive me if I'm wrong and am confusing this with another term, but I beleve there's an older context than the song title; gens du pays was a term for people in/from the pays d'en haut, "the upper country", .e. the Lakehead/Lake Superior/Nipigon region; part of the voyageur/coureur du bois culture/era but not voyageurs or courers du bois themselves. I remember a discussion of this, I think on CBC Radio, about the different layers of French lifestyle/identity westwards; anyone have thoughts on this?Skookum1 (talk) 16:37, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

origin of phrase
Somewhere in a radio account (CBC of course) the origin of thiis term came up, or rather an earlier usage of it anyway, before the song came along. FWIR coureurs de bois were one kind of indiviual in teh fur trade, while "gens du pays" referred to the pays d'en haut, as I remember the phrase (sorry for any bad French), "men of the upper country', the pays d'en haut being the country north and west of Lake Superior; the voyageurs were those who conencted/spanned the region, the gens du pays were the guys living/working in it....Skookum1 (talk) 15:23, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

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Timeline
How could a song written in 1975 be banned from the radio during the October Crisis, which took place in 1970? Predestiprestidigitation (talk) 16:33, 28 August 2021 (UTC)