My Oh Canada

Frank “Tex” Davis wrote “My Oh Canada” in 1942 while deployed as a young rifleman. In it he quotes the song played at the dedications of the Vimy Memorial in France and the National War Memorial in Ottawa, decades before “O Canada” became the official national anthem.

Tex served with the Halifax Rifles and the 13th Brigade Pacific Force from 1942 to 1945. He rejoined the Canadian Armed Forces in the 1950s as a dispatch rider with the Signal Corps and retired in 1967. The Veterans Channel is honoured to help him share his poem and his love of country.