Talk:Land of the Silver Birch

Music
It would be lovely to see, in notation, the song (or part of it). It really is strange to have so much talk about a song and not see it. Gingermint (talk) 07:34, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

"Land of the Eagle"?
I've always known the lyrics as "Land of the silver birch / home of the beaver…" as they are cited here, but I have heard people from the US say that they learned "…home of the eagle…", either in school or at Scout Camp, because the beaver is the national animal of Canada and the US's is the eagle. I can find a few references to the variant, "home of the eagle", when I search for it, but can't substantiate the reason. Would a) anyone have a source for that or, if not, would it be thought to be okay to add to add the variant with a citation and proposed explanation for it? (All the sites that have "home of the eagle" are from the US. Petropetro (talk) 23:22, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Where Nature is this Inhospitable
I would remove the word romanticised from, "Its subject matter is a romanticized vision of nature..."

It seems to me, this is asserted as an insight so obvious that it can be assumed. No great statement was intended here so it's perhaps silly for me to launch a thoughtful rebuttal. I would like to though, not to condemn the author, but as someone might who defends one that they love.

Consider first that to romantacize means "to deal with or describe in an idealized or unrealistic fashion; make (something) seem better or more appealing than it really is". There is a love of nature here but not, I think, a nature loved because it has first been re-fashioned as ideal. The lake is blue but her shores are not smoothed to soft sand by poetic longing. These shores are loved for what they are: rocky--jagged. Nature in this poem remains sharp. Danger is not put away but walks abroad. The moose's might is not made tame in the place where it "wanders at will". Canada's nature is loved here, not for what we pretend it to be but for that which it most truly is.

Academic, put away thy pen and take up paddle! Draw the length of that wooden blade through a cold Canadian lake and find for yourself unbounded romance where nature is this inhospitable.


 * That is so poetic it should have it's own article.--Jack Upland (talk) 02:26, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

"likely frequent"
Just what is this phrase (in the section on scouts and guides) supposed to mean?213.127.210.95 (talk) 15:21, 22 June 2017 (UTC)