Calixa Lavallée

Calixa Lavallée was one of the first Canadian musicians to gain an international reputation. He studied in Montréal and Paris and worked at different times as an itinerant musician, military bandsman, choral and orchestra conductor, teacher, and composer in Canada and the United States. While living in this house, he was asked to write an anthem for the Saint Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations of 1880, and his composition, set to words by Judge Adolphe-Basile Routhier, was O Canada.

Quebec · Canada