Cover art for Looking For A Place To Happen by The Tragically Hip

Looking For A Place To Happen

Oct. 6, 19921 viewer

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“Looking For A Place To Happen” is a narrative of European colonization in Canada, following the perspective of French explorer Jacques Cartier who is looking for gullible people to exploit.

It also deals with the topic of the genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada, and how many of these murders remain unsolved.

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October 6, 1992
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