Happy Canada Day: Composer of Canadian anthem lived and died in Boston

Turns out the author of "O, Canada" lived and died in Boston - although he did at least compose what became the Canadian national anthem while living in Canada in 1880.

Calixa Lavallee spent his last years in Boston - living at 4 Brookford St. in Dorchester and serving as choirmaster at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. That was after he married a Lowell girl following the Civil War, during which he served with a Rhode Island regiment on the Union side, as one did.

When Lavallee, in January, 1891, just 48, a funeral Mass was held for him at the cathedral, after which he was buried in Mt. Benedict Cemetery in West Roxbury. However, in 1933, his remains were disinterred and then reburied in Montreal.

H/t Neal Gaffey.