Songs in French mentioning Lake Ontario

Subject: Songs in French mentioning Lake Ontario
From: Rana
Date: 17 Nov 99 - 09:51 AM

Gene Wilburn who created the wonderful page Northern Journey Online (www.interlog.com/~njo/ forwarded this request to the Northwest Passage (cdnfolk listserver). I thought it warranted being put here and took the liberty of copying it. Might be a good test of the Mudcat communities resourse base.

Rana

Here's a good one. Any Canadian folksongs in FRENCH that mention LAKE ONTARIO.

If you know any, please send them to me and I'll forward them along. [Gene Wilburn ]

Gene

> Subject: Lake Ontario songs > Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 12:46:00 -0500 > From: Stormy Weather > Reply-To: Marine History Information Exchange Group > > To: [e-mail] > > Good morning, > > I am looking for any sailors' songs, ballads (possibly even shanties) that > are in French _and_ contain any reference to Lake Ontario. > > Help on or off list would be appreciated. > > Fair winds > Paul

Subject: RE: Songs in French mentioning Lake Ontario
From: Bill Cameron
Date: 17 Nov 99 - 05:02 PM

Closest I can think of is "Wreck of the Julie Plante", by William Henry Drummond, which however is

(a)not in French--it's in English with a supposed Quebecois accent (b)not about Lake Ontario--but it's on Lake St Clair,

"Wan dark night on Lake St Clair, the wind she blow, blow, blow.
De crew of de wood scow Julie Plante got scare and go below..."

Great song though. Bill

Subject: RE: Songs in French mentioning Lake Ontario
From: Rana
Date: 18 Nov 99 - 05:05 PM

Wow, Gene's corespondant really did pose a challenge! Is there no one out there who knows a french song mentioning Lake Ontario (probably should ask Lee Murdoch). Maybe the sad truth is there isn't.

Rana