The Queen of the Grand Banks Schooners

Rare footage of the original Bluenose schooner, racing against her Gloucester rival, the Gertrude L. Thibault, set to Stan Roger's inspiring music and voice.

Hats off to two great Canadian icons.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• stan
• rogers
• bluenose
• tall
• ship
• schooner
• grand
• banks
• gertrude
• thibault
• folk
• music
• fogarty's
• cove
• privateer's
• wharf

[falken456]

my great grampy is in this video :D sailor of the Bluenose!! From LUNENBURG!! :) <3

Thank you uploader!!

[AnonymousXIII]

@falken456 You're very welcome; I wish I could say I knew the names of the men in the video, but I really don't.

[AnonymousXIII]

@bubbaFarnsworth I strongly disagree, that was Stan's gift; he made that feeling apparent across the nation and around the world.

However, you're welcome to your opinion.

[CrankySailor]

@bubbaFarnsworth

If i would to be a douche i would say noone from vancouver to nova scotia can ever understand the pride this song bring to canadian sailor if youre not a sailor. But i dont, I am a canadian sailor and i think the majesty of such a great ship transcend whoever you are and gives pride to all canadians

[canmoore]

The bluenose had such a sad demise though.. Sold to run rum in the Caribbean.. In fact there is a story that during WW2, she was intercepted by a German U-Boat, whose captain told the crew of the bluenose that the only reason why he didn't sink them was that it was the famous Bluenose!

[SailAmibon]

Thanks for this beautiful footage (and song!)

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[bighank99]

@bighank99 Thanks for letting me know that it was also published on the Home in Halifax recording, which I have yet to hear.

[AnonymousXIII]

@bighank99 Sorry to take so long in replying; and it's true that the song came out on Turnaround in '78, but the live recording I used was from the Home in Halifax album released posthumously in '93.

[AnonymousXIII]

@Desmaad Actually Dundas, I believe; my father once visited their home by chance, and I had a co-worker who went to the same church.

[AnonymousXIII]

@Englishhegemony I'm not aware of a Gordon Lightfoot version; it was written by Stan Rogers, apparently commissioned by the CBC or whoever, to accompany this piece of footage for televising.

[AnonymousXIII]

@keplermission Sorry, for some reason that one never came into my in-box; I never realized it was awaiting approval.

[WindmillStalker]

This live version of the song has so much power.

[whippy107]

Three cheers for Stan, three more for for Bluenose. It's the least this Yank can do to honor two of the world's greatest. Cheers!