Canada Vignettes: Log Driver's Waltz

When canada was great

As a proud Canadian born here...This should be Canada's national anthem.

90s kids know.

I am fitst generation Canadian on my mom's side, second on my dad's side. So proud yo be both. I love this song so

I love this❤ And love Canada

Back when men were men and didnt claim to be women without posessing ovaries.

Ah, yeah. It's 1980-1988 again. Always watched this to ethe end.

FYI: logrolling was called "birling" back in the day.

So the lyric is "for he goes birling down and down white water..."

Anyone have an idea where the non animated parts were filmed? Be kinda neat to have a picnic there on the shore.

Don't you hate it when the cover up the end of the video with ads for other videos? Grrrrrr.

Log driver rizz

This vignette should be mandatory to watch when applying for a Canadian citizenship. 🇨🇦

I remember seeing this on TV! :D

Every morning

YTV and teletoon anyone?

The only good thing out of the NFB in all their existance.

My childhood ☺️

i went from log rolling to meth bubble rolling

This gave me goose bumps, love it !!

2024

As a newly minted and PROUD Canadian Citizen this is sunshine in my soul!🥰❤

Wait. She says, "if he asks me AGAIN I think I will marry my logrider". So, she rejected him before? What's up with that? Great piece of nostalgia.

Colonial Canada's skater boys 😂

This film is a Canadian cultural treasure.

In the early days of deforesting Canada, they would float the logs down the river, sometimes narrow fast mountain streams. Massive logs weigh thousands of pounds. If one log gets stuck, and other logs start to get jammed up behind it with all the weight of the water pressure on them, it becomes very dangerous.

The log drivers, were very light footed men who would dance along the floating logs, moving them with a long stick with a spear and a barb on the end. Their job was so lethally dangerous, so many men died, crushed by the logs or drowned beneath them that it is entirely outlawed now, and only exists in Lumberjack competitions, with a chained log in a wide trough. It is called Burling, two lumberjacks on one log, trying to make the other fall in.

The only existing film of log drivers at work, is the first bit of this charming video.

I …..love….this….video😊

I was about to subscibe until i browsed the videos and saw the word "Latinex". If your're uneducated then let me EDUCATE YOU. Spanish like Latin is Predicated on the MASCULINE AND FEMININE aspects of REALITY. TO MAKE UP WORDS THAT SPANISH PEOPLE DON'T USE AND EXPECT THEM TO USE THEM IN REFERENCE OUR OWN PEOPLE IS OFFENSIVE!

It's been a few years since this was posted. Having it pop up on my feed today was perfect timing. Harris is now seeking the Democrat nomination. Biden was an excellent Congress 'logdriver'. His last drive to pivot Harris in his place was a tour de force. I am 🇨🇦 and our long long border with the USA drags us into their political log jams. I bet the rest of the world feels the same.

This was always on YTV

Here in 2024 because at 44 years of age, this song still just randomly gets stuck in my head out of nowhere. Like, completely entrenched.

What a great song I remember it as a kid❤😊

It is such a great song my kids want to listen to it every day ❤❤

who remember watching this on YTV

When I was a kid growing up, CBC would play this as part of their commercials on TV.

NFB there’s no excuse for the CC / subtitles to be this awful. The lyrics are known, published, and freely available. Fix.

I'm a log driver
and that's okay
I sleep all night
and burl all day

americans did a fallout game where america annexed canada cause they know canada beat them twice!!!!!! so they dont want any of this their gadges and tough guys lost in nam and iraq

Ah une idée! This tune. Scott Moir. Tessa Virtue.

541 Elfrieda Spur

When I was living in Redlands California . I showed my campers this Canadian video . They loved it .

brings back memories.I seen this on tv back in the 80`s,i think.What a wonderful canadiana video and song.

I Am Canadian and yes averagely I do like our beer youngenst potheads whatever it takes I Guess

Not sure what how did I get here, but sure, O Candada!

that moose is caked up lol

A lively tune introduced to the world by folksinger/songwriter, Wade Hemsworth. Another musical genius from Brantford, Ontario, both he and Alfred Bryan were inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. When the McGarrigle sisters were still teenagers, he enlisted them as folksingers. You can hear their signature harmonies on this soundtrack.

i used to watch this on tv in the morning

I’m so proud to be Canadian

A beautiful relic of a once proud, but now mostly vanished nation, from a public broadcaster that once celebrated the culture that it is now involved in its destruction. Shame.

Remember when CBC used to be Canadian? It seems like a distant memory now