Canada you are indeed a land and nation of immigrants
Many people heard you call and they came.
Macedonians left their beloved homeland
Your hopes and opportunities to claim.
You invited them; come Aegean, come Pirin, come Vardar
Come you resilient and strong peoples.
Leave Macedonia, as children will someday leave the home.
Come have families, build homes, build businesses, build churches with their steeples.

You counseled them, embrace me and I will embrace you. Nothing will be given to you, nothing here is free. Macedonians are not strangers to hard times or hard work. Things will go well here; persist; you will see.
You persuaded them; give me your youth, your vigor, your muscle, your sweat. Give me your hopes and dreams, your plans, your brain.
Establishing a foothold in this new country will be hard. Remember immigrant, it's your children who will reap and gain.
No work was too hard for • Macedonian, nor beneath them, name it they did it! Labourers at first, they soon left that behind, these Macedonians of intelligence and will.
They rubbed shoulders with • great mixture of nationalities in Canada. Learned the language of the land; collectively, ethnically they won themselves a place. Their honest, God fearing, hard working character, proves them second to none. In business, the trades, arts and academics, they bring honour to their Macedonian race.

And when the children of Macedonian immigrants Stand at their parents graves, as one day they must. They know their Canadian birth right has been secured. For their parents bones, will become part of Canadian dust.