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4 unusual facts about The Maple Leaf Forever


1998–99 Toronto Maple Leafs season

During the emotional post-game ceremony, legendary Canadian singer Anne Murray performed The Maple Leaf Forever, clad in a Leafs jersey.

The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon

Directly across the street from the Witherspoon house on Laing Street is Maple Cottage, where Alexander Muir wrote "The Maple Leaf Forever" in 1867.

The Maple Leaf Forever

It is the opening theme of each episode of The King Chronicle, Donald Brittain's 1988 NFB/CBC miniseries about the long career of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

CBC Radio's Metro Morning show in Toronto ran a contest to find new lyrics for the song in 1997.



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