See if you can find "Songs of the Pacific Northwest", by Philip J. Thomas (Saanichton: Hancock House, 1979), which has nearly 50 songs of all sorts, about most of the industries, the Fraser River and Cariboo Gold Rushes, fishing, ranching, pioneering & so forth. Of these, my favourite is "Far from Home", whose words appeared in Harper's, Dec. 1860, and so American; the tune was put to it by the editor himself, and is a really fine thing. For a song about generalities, though, maybe you could use "Where the Great Peace River Flows". But the entire book is worth browsing through.