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* BlackComedy: "Barrett's Privateers" is about a comically under-equipped, inexperienced, largely sick and incompetent bunch of would-be pirates sailing in a vessel in poor repair. [[spoiler: When they finally find a slow, easy mark, they take days just to catch it, can't even hurt it with their cracked cannons, and a single cannonball smashes the ''Antelope'' to pieces.]]
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** "Canol Road" is about a man suffering from cabin fever who murders someone in a bar fight in Whitehorse, flees along the titular road through isolated country, and eventually runs out of gas and freezes to death. Canol Road is a real cross-country road in the Yukon.
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** "Canol Road" is about a man suffering from cabin fever who murders someone in a bar fight in Whitehorse, flees along the titular road through isolated country, and eventually runs out of gas and freezes to death. Canol Road is a real cross-country road in the Yukon.Yukon, and the song references the real-life Yukon towns of Carmacks, Haines Junction, Carcross, Teslin, and Johnson's Crossing.
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* DrinkingOnDuty: The captain and the mate in "The ''Mary Ellen Carter''" are both [[DrunkDriver drunk drivers]], and for good measure the cook has the [=DTs=].
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* DrinkingOnDuty: The DrinkingOnDuty:
**The captain and the mate in "The ''Mary Ellen Carter''" are both [[DrunkDriver drunkdrivers]], and for good measure the drivers]].
**The cook in "Barrett's Privateers" has the [=DTs=].
**The captain and the mate in "The ''Mary Ellen Carter''" are both [[DrunkDriver drunk
**The cook in "Barrett's Privateers" has the [=DTs=].
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* LocationSong: Many of his songs are extremely redolent of place; even the ones about fictional places ("Fogarty's Cove," "Make and Break Harbour") breathe the reality of lots of real places. His albums ''Fogarty's Cove, Northwest Passage,'' and ''From Fresh Water'' were Concept Albums about the Maritimes, western and northern Canada, and the Great Lakes, respectively.
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* LocationSong: Many of his songs are extremely redolent of place; even the ones about fictional places ("Fogarty's Cove," "Make and Break Harbour") breathe the reality of lots of real places. His albums ''Fogarty's Cove, Northwest Passage,'' and ''From Fresh Water'' were [[ConceptAlbum Concept Albums Albums]] about the Maritimes, western and northern Canada, and the Great Lakes, respectively.
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** "Canol Road" is about a man suffering from cabin fever who murders someone in a bar fight in Whitehorse, flees along the titular road through isolated country, and eventually runs out of gas and freezes to death. Canol Road is a real cross-country road in the Yukon.
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* LocationSong: Many of his songs are extremely redolent of place; even the ones about fictional places ("Fogarty's Cove," "Make and Break Harbour") breathe the reality of lots of real places. His albums ''Fogarty's Cove, Northwest Passage,'' and ''From Fresh Water'' were Concept Albums about the Maritimes, western and northern Canada, and the Great Lakes, respectively.
** "Watching the Apples Grow" is about the character's love for his home region, the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia.
** "White Squall" centres on the treachery of weather on the Great Lakes, leaving the people of the lakeshore communities to deal with tragedy (there's a reason why it's a "red-eyed Wiarton girl" specifically).
** "The Idiot" contrasts the protagonist's familiar environment back home in the Maritimes with the alienating conditions in Alberta.
** "Watching the Apples Grow" is about the character's love for his home region, the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia.
** "White Squall" centres on the treachery of weather on the Great Lakes, leaving the people of the lakeshore communities to deal with tragedy (there's a reason why it's a "red-eyed Wiarton girl" specifically).
** "The Idiot" contrasts the protagonist's familiar environment back home in the Maritimes with the alienating conditions in Alberta.
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* WanderlustSong: "Northwest Passage" is from the point of view of a person who has "left a settled life" to drive west across Canada and identifies with early European explorers.
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* HistoricalBiographySong: "[=MacDonnell=] on the Heights" [sic] is about Lt. Col. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Macdonell John Macdonell]] and how his heroic death in the War of 1812 was overshadowed by that of General Brock shortly before.
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* SalvagePirates: The jolly main characters of "The ''Athens Queen''" make or at least handsomely supplement their living by salvaging the contents of ships that run aground on a notorious rock near their home. They don't accost and rob the crew of the titular ship, since it's already been abandoned when they get there, but nor are they hastening to their rescue, preferring to "go and have a few and wait until low tide" for easier salvage conditions.
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* SalvagePirates: The jolly main characters of "The ''Athens Queen''" make or at least handsomely supplement their living by salvaging the contents of ships that run aground on a notorious rock near their home. They don't accost and rob the crew of the titular ship, since it's already been abandoned when they get there, but nor are they hastening to their rescue, preferring to "go and have a few and wait until low tide" for easier salvage conditions.conditions; the fate of the crew is ignored in the song.
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* SalvagePirates: The jolly main characters of "The ''Athens Queen''" make or at least handsomely supplement their living by salvaging the contents of ships that run aground on a notorious rock near their home. They don't accost and rob the crew of the titular ship, since it's already been abandoned when they get there, but nor are they hastening to their rescue, preferring to "go and have a few and wait until low tide" for easier salvage conditions.
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** "Tiny Fish for Japan," "The ''Jeannie C.''", and others are about fishermen.
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* DrinkingOnDuty: The captain and the mate in "The ''Mary Ellen Carter''" are both [[DrunkDriver drunk drivers]], and for good measure the cook has the DTs.
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* DrinkingOnDuty: The captain and the mate in "The ''Mary Ellen Carter''" are both [[DrunkDriver drunk drivers]], and for good measure the cook has the DTs.[=DTs=].
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* TheAllegedCar: The Antelope sloop in "Barrett's Privateers"is an alleged ''ship'' which can barely sail and gets smashed into pieces with one cannonball.
-->''The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight\\
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* TheAllegedCar: The Antelope sloop in "Barrett's Privateers"is Privateers" is an alleged ''ship'' which can barely sail and gets smashed into pieces with one cannonball.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The last of Barrett’s Privateers longs for Sherbrooke, but the town didn’t gain that name until 1818. The song mostly takes place in 1778, while the final verse is set in 1784.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The last of Barrett’s Privateers longs for Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia, but the town didn’t gain that name until 1818. The song mostly takes place in 1778, while the final verse is set in 1784.
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* DrinkingOnDuty: The captain in "The ''Mary Ellen Carter''" is a DrunkDriver.
* DyingTown: "Fogarty's Cove" (jauntier than the others), "Finch's Complaint", "Make and Break Harbour", "The Field Behind the Plow", "Free in the Harbour", "Tiny Fish for Japan"...
* DyingTown: "Fogarty's Cove" (jauntier than the others), "Finch's Complaint", "Make and Break Harbour", "The Field Behind the Plow", "Free in the Harbour", "Tiny Fish for Japan"...
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* DrinkingOnDuty: The captain and the mate in "The ''Mary Ellen Carter''" is a DrunkDriver.
are both [[DrunkDriver drunk drivers]], and for good measure the cook has the DTs.
* DyingTown: "Fogarty's Cove"(jauntier (only implied, and jauntier than the others), "Finch's Complaint", "Make and Break Harbour", "The Field Behind the Plow", "Free in the Harbour", "Tiny Fish for Japan"...
* DyingTown: "Fogarty's Cove"
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* FatalFamilyPhoto: the kid has one in "White Squall".
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* FatalFamilyPhoto: the kid has one in "White Squall".Squall" shows his shipmates "his pictures of the girl he'd wed in spring."
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* ThePioneer: "Northwest Passage", although the singer is about a hundred years too late and merely inspired by the Franklin, Kelso, and Thompson Expeditions.
* PrecisionFStrike: Most of the "Mary Ellen Carter" goes by without more than one mild "hell" until the final verse, which Rogers punctuates with relish:
* PrecisionFStrike: Most of the "Mary Ellen Carter" goes by without more than one mild "hell" until the final verse, which Rogers punctuates with relish:
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* ThePioneer: "Northwest Passage", although Passage": the singer is main character waxes lyrical about a hundred years too late and merely inspired by the Franklin, Kelso, and Thompson Expeditions.
expeditions through Western Canada and pondering his commonalities with them; while he himself is simply driving down the highway across the country a hundred years later, he has "like them... left a settled life" to strike out for something new.
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* RecruitersAlwaysLie: The Captain in "Barrett's Privateers" promises a cushy gig with no fighting and plenty of loot. Disaster ensues.
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** "Barrett's Privateers" wouldn't be anywhere as effective if it didn't crash into each chorus with a heartfelt "God damn them all!"
* RecruitersAlwaysLie:The Captain Barrett in "Barrett's Privateers" promises a cushy gig with no fighting and plenty of loot. Disaster ensues.
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* TakeThat: Ontario's tourism industry came out with the slogan "No place you'd rather be." Stan's response, from "Watching the Apples Grow":
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* TakeThat: Ontario's tourism industry came out with the slogan "No "Ontario! Is there any place you'd rather be." be?" Stan's response, from "Watching the Apples Grow":
