In Popular Culture
- The chorus is played at the end of the 1939 Shirley Temple film Susannah of the Mounties.
- The song is used as a Canadian symbol in the 1942 James Cagney film Captains of the Clouds.
- It is the opening theme of each episode of The King Chronicle, Donald Brittain's 1988 NFB/CBC miniseries about the long career of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.
- Scottish-Canadian celtic punk band "The Real McKenzies" played an adapted version of the song on their 2008 album Off the Leash, named "The Maple Trees Remember".
- An arrangement of "The Maple Leaf Forever" using the modified Radian lyrics was employed by performer Michael Bublé for the 2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremony.
- The Maple Leaf Forever is used in the opening and closing credits of a Documentary series on the History Channel entitled "For King and Empire". The series chronicles Canadian Soldiers and the Canadian Corps during the Great War.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox—the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Both cultures encourage innovation and experimentation, but are likely to reject the innovator if his innovation is not accepted by audiences. High culture experiments that are rejected by audiences in the creator’s lifetime may, however, become classics in another era, whereas popular culture experiments are forgotten if not immediately successful. Even so, in both cultures innovation is rare, although in high culture it is celebrated and in popular culture it is taken for granted.”
—Herbert J. Gans (b. 1927)