```json
{
    "title": "Hockey Night in Canada theme composer launches lawsuit against CBC",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2004/11/19/hockey-night-in-canada-theme-composer-launches-lawsuit-against-cbc/",
    "datePublished": "2004-11-19",
    "dateModified": "2022-04-18",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "Link: Yahoo! News - Hockey Night in Canada theme composer launches lawsuit against CBC. Of course, the true Canadian National Anthem is this...Northwest PassageStan Rogers Chorus:Ah, for just one time…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# Hockey Night in Canada theme composer launches lawsuit against CBC

Link: [Yahoo! News - Hockey Night in Canada theme composer launches lawsuit against CBC](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cpress/20041119/ca_pr_on_me/nhl_hnic_song_lawsuit_3).

Of course, the true Canadian National Anthem is this...***Northwest Passage***
Stan Rogers

> ***Chorus*:
> Ah, for just one time I would take the[Northwest Passage](http://collections.ic.gc.ca/arctic/explore/intro.htm)
> To find the hand of [Franklin](http://www.athropolis.com/links/franklin.htm)reaching for the [Beaufort Sea](http://www.pc.gc.ca/progs/amnc-nmca/plan/arc3_E.asp);
> Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage
> And make a Northwest Passage to the sea.**

> Westward from the [Davis Strait](http://www.question.com/link/DavisStr.html) 'tis there 'twas said to lie
> The sea route to the Orient for which so many died;
> Seeking gold and glory, leaving weathered, broken bones
> And a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones.1
> Three centuries thereafter, I take passage overland
> In the footsteps of brave [Kelso](http://www.sea-of-flowers.ca/weblog/sea/archives/2004/04/brave_kelso.php), where his "sea of flowers" began
> Watching cities rise before me, then behind me sink again
> This tardiest explorer, driving hard across the plain.
> And through the night, behind the wheel, the mileage clicking west
> I think upon [Mackenzie](http://www.pbs.org/empireofthebay/profiles/mackenzie.html), [David Thompson](http://www.northwestjournal.ca/V1.htm) and the rest
> Who cracked the mountain ramparts and did show a path for me
> To race the roaring Fraser to the sea.
> How then am I so different from the first men through this way?
> Like them, I left a settled life, I threw it all away.
> To seek a Northwest Passage at the call of many men
> To find there but the road back home again.

1 "Not until 1859 did the last search party, led by Leopold McClintock, find
the cairn containing messages confirming Franklin's death, and skeletons of
some of the last survivors, some of whom had apparently resorted to
cannibalism. According to a note found in the cairn at Point Victory, "Sir
John Franklin died on 11th June 1847" at a point when only 24 men had thus
far died."
-- [The Franklin Expedition: 1845-1859](http://www.victorianweb.org/history/franklin/franklin.html)