Thanks for the French version, Barry.

So my understanding is that the music was an old French Christmas carol, then Fr. Brebeuf put Huron lyrics to it that described the birth of Christ as it might have happened in Canada (rather than translating the French)? Then it was translated back into French and later into English keeping the Canadian setting - so there's both an old and new French version, both about Christmas, but one is conventional and one uses Canadian images like the English version I posted at the top?

Marion