Posts Tagged ‘Hockey Night in Canada’

Just to see if anyone’s paying attention, here’s a National Film Board of Canada vignette from the 1970s featuring Roger Doucet, who sang “O Canada” at Canadiens, Expos and Alouettes home games. Living in the Detroit area, I watched a lot of Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday nights on the CBC, and there are as many audio as visual memories of those evenings. Two of the fondest memories are M. Doucet’s wonderful baritone rendition of Canada’s national anthem (starting in French and ending in English, as seen in this video), and Paul Morris, who was the public address announcer at Maple Leaf Gardens for 38 years until the team moved to the Air Canada Centre in 1999.