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I remember my mom playing this when I was I was little and I still love this song just as much . P.s. I am Canadian 🇨🇦

Wow! So glad you posted this!! I'm a Canadian expat living in Holland! Much as I love it, I miss SO much about home!! (I"m from Sudbury!) This song went through my head for some reason and I Googled it and there was this marvellous post!! Thank you so much!! Or as we say over here DANK JE WEL!!

Yeah, THAT Ontario hasn't existed for over a decade, maybe longer.

Was a great place before the Liberals wrecked it.

Always makes me think of a TV western like "Bonanza" or "Gunsmoke." Anyone else?

As an Ontarian, this song reminds me why the rest of the nation sees us as arrogant. That said, I sang right along.

this is jiggle shoulders and jiggle-hips-oldies Ontario music 😂 Jiggle dem hips

Lets bring this back to schools modernized and ard it to our national anthem help everyone onow where to go.

I feel like in this country, you're not supposed to be a proud Ontarian, but I am. I like this place.

Harris and ford have ruined Ontario

Ontario-o-oooooooooooooooooo-oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-oooooooooooo

When Manitoba copies your flag

Penis

It sounds like a cartoon

Kanada listemde😌👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻☺️

This song sucks I like west Virginia theme song this song sounds like it singed in the 1950s it sound so outdated yes our country sure gaycanda fucking suckass

I had a worn out Ontario flag. I just burnt it to this song playing.

0:36 tmw it's 2022 and it's still in construction

Jim Carrey brought me here.

Me blasting this on my way to destroy Quebec

But unfortunately Mike Harris, and his protege Doug Ford came along and ruined it!

Canadian-born composer Dolores Claman died this week, just after celebrating her 94th birthday (7/6/2021). If you're a Canadian (and even a little musical) you know 'by heart' two of her best tunes from the 1960s: The first was the theme song for an Academy Award -winning short film, introduced at the Ontario Pavilion of Canada's “Expo '67” world's fair in Montreal. The other was the “Hockey Night in Canada” instrumental theme (more about that one below). The best report I ever read on Dolores Claman was by Toronto Star feature writer Leslie Scrivener who recalled in 2007 that “The big hits that sunny summer of '67 were Happy Together by The Turtles, I'm a Believer by The Monkees, and All You Need is Love by The Beatles - as optimistic as the year itself. There was one particularly Canadian song that year - one of dozens commissioned to celebrate the country's regions - that was popular and upbeat, as was expected at the time. “A Place to Stand” may not leap to mind as one of the hits of `67 - until you put the lyrics together: "A place to stand, a place to grow, Ontar-i-ar-i-ar-i-o." Remember that? Most do, because many people growing up in Ontario in 1967 have its rousing melody hardwired in the brain. The mere mention of it sends the tune looping round and round, maddeningly. The song was commissioned by the Ontario government to accompany the short documentary film of the same name that was screened at the Ontario Pavilion at Expo. That film was a marvel for its multiple, moving, split-screen images, a technique that had not been used before and astounded all who saw it. The song sold 50,000 copies. The film, which later toured movie theatres in the United States and Europe, would be seen by 100 million people, be nominated for two Academy Awards, and win an Oscar for 'Best Live Action Short Subject' for filmaker Chris Chapman. Vancouver-born composer Dolores Claman and her then-husband, Richard Morris, were hired to write the music and lyrics for the film. The couple met in London, England, where Claman, a graduate of the Juilliard School, was writing songs for musical revues - things like Air on a Shoestring - in West End theatres. Morris wanted a taste of the new world. They moved to Toronto, where he worked for an ad agency and they started a jingle-writing business, Quartet Productions, whose clients included Ford, Chrysler, General Motors, and the major airlines. The only instruction they received from the province was that the music had to be suitable for children to sing. "The words drove the music," Claman says. "But it was complicated because we didn't see the whole film at all, just bits" of it. The fleeting images of the people of Ontario at work and play, and scenes of shimmering autumn leaves, geese in flight, and baskets of peaches, created what Claman interpreted as a "warm feeling." Reviewers at the time said it was difficult to remember a single sequence, but the effect was subtle and subliminal. "You'd have the sneaking belief that Ontario really is Eden," one observed. "I always had to get a picture in my mind and then let emotion take over," Claman says. "I have to get myself right in to it and not stand back too much." But when the lyrics were presented to the Department of Economics and Development, as the ministry was then known, "they didn't go down very well," she says. "Especially the `Ontari-ari-ari-o' bit." "I was busy listening to a mix in the recording room, so I didn't see what happened," Claman says. "Richard was sitting in the client's room, which was very small, when suddenly a lot of men in suits arrived, including the Minister of Industry, looking very nervous, and other dignitaries looking non-committal and finally Ontario premier John Robarts, himself. He listened to it once through, wiped a tear from his eye, and left. And that was that." Later they received a letter from Robarts. "He said every time he heard the song, he teared up a bit. It touched him emotionally." The song was enormously successful, and the couple, who held the copyright, decided they couldn't be bothered policing it - at one point, people were using the song to sell real estate - and instead sold the rights to the province. It's likely the success of "A Place to Stand" that led to the song that really made Claman famous, the Hockey Night in Canada theme, the brassy, triumphalist air that still heralds the Saturday night game on CBC television. "A Place to Stand" also led them to Spain, where they were hired to work out Spanish lyrics for the international distribution of the film. Worn out from the pace of jingle writing in Toronto, and as the parents of two small children, they ended up living in Spain (where Dolores died this week). If it was unsettling for the composer to see only part of the film, it was torturous for the filmmaker, Chris Chapman who had embarked on a dazzling new technique . . . Over a year, Chapman shot 70 kilometres of film, which he distilled into 18 minutes, though the images moving across the screen were the equivalent of an hour and three-quarters of film. It was a difficult task, because such a film had not been made before [and] Even at the first screening, at Todd-AO studios in Hollywood, he was still unsure. "There were a couple of stenographers, who were eating their lunch watching the screening, and they were agog. But I wanted to run. I was exhausted and thought it was a failure, but a chap grabbed me as I was going out the door. He'd been standing at the back of the screening room and said he was blown away by it. It was Steve McQueen." The next year, McQueen starred in The Thomas Crown Affair, directed by Norman Jewison, a film that used the split-screen technique that Chapman developed." Thanks for sharing, Bold Ontarian. Celebrated this day in the "Songwriting Workshop, Harmony Central, Great Melody, Great Lyric, Great Rendition" .

RIP Delores Claman.

I remember that song long ago in school!

This song makes me glad I immigrated to the States in '95.

Ah the memories.

amazing!!!

This song always makes me cry and homesick.

This song makes me internally happy

the canadian museum of history is in Gatineau is in Québec