O Canada national anthem sign-off film 

This version of the anthem was made specially for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal and it was arranged by Victor Vogel (and I have to agree with many, it's probably the best arrangement ever of O Canada)

This national anthem film is turning 40 in 2023.

Start at the Pacific, end somewhere in the Maritimes or Newfoundland: this is a cool flight across the continent, with recognizable terrain and buildings... I like it, a lot.

Michael Mills Productions in Montreal, arguably the overall best animation studio in Canada in the 1980's

This is making me patriotic for a country I'm not even from

Back when life was stable

Imagine if you were watching Fairchild TV at night before some color bars make some annoying beeping noise.

This version of the anthem was made specially for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal and it was arranged by T. J. Hill (and I have to agree with many, it's probably the best arrangement ever of O Canada)

CKY TV used the Michael Mills Productions O Canada national anthem film for their sign off/ sign on from 1983 until 1992 (my mom remembers seeing this back in the early 80s)

this is how the Canadian anthem is meant to be played

When I'm homesick, I play this video and my spirit is uplifted

I grew up with this and to this day it makes me tear up. It’s an amazing arrangement.

When I used to spend my summers in Maine, they had CKSH Ch. 9 on the cable system. This was the anthem they always used at both sign off and sign on each day.

As a child I remember seeing this early morning as the broadcast started on one of the two or three channels we could pick up with our "rabbit ears" antenna.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen or heard in my life.

You're right - the network would play it both at the end of the broadcast day as well as the start of each morning before they shifted to a 24x7 operation.

Maybe nostalgia plays a role - I remember repeatedly watching this sign-off in the '90s as a teenager in the family basement, usually having smoked a joint and having watched something good on the CBC. I'm no nationalist. To my mind, though, it's a brilliant animated sequence, and probably the best instrumental rendition of the anthem I've heard. I especially love the dramatic flourishes in the last few bars. The fact that I continue to look it up every so often bears testimony to the quality of this production, I think.

Sounds like O'Canada that our grade 7 and 8 classes listened to in 1990 and 1991, on the school intercom.

I remember this from when I was visiting relatives in Montana; they were able to get two TV channels, and one of them was CBC.

There is indeed a version of "O Canada" made in 1952 by the celebrated Evelyn Lambart, but the version posted I've posted is accurately credited to Michael Miills Productions and was transferred directly from a 3/4" U-Matic tape of their Demo Reel. There are also landmarks glimpsed in the animation such as the TD Tower in Vancouver (built in 1972), Toronto's CN Tower (1976), and the Montreal Biosphere (1967) all obviously built long after 1952.