"A Place to Stand, A Place to Grow" is an unofficial anthem of the Canadian province of Ontario.
It was commissioned by the Progressive Conservative government of John Robarts for the Ontario pavillion at Expo 67, the World's Fair held in Montreal, Quebec in Canada's Centennial year of 1967, and was used again and widely remembered in the following decades.
It was featured at that exhibit in the short film A Place to Stand, which won the 1967 Academy Award for Live Action Short Film.
Actor Jim Carrey made the song famous once again in 2004, when he sang it on the Late Night with Conan O'Brien show when the show travelled to Toronto to tape four episodes.
In 2005, the song was mooted as a possible official song for the province, which was without such a song.
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