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11.7 million Canadians tuned in to Tragically Hip’s last concert

But it did not beat the men’s gold-medal hockey game at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, considered to be the most-watched broadcast ever in Canada.

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The Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie is seen performing on screen as a Downie lookalike watches during a viewing party in Vancouver of the final concert.

 DARRYL DYCK / THE CANADIAN PRESS
By The Canadian Press

About 1/3 Canada’s population tuned in on television, radio and online streaming at some point during the nearly three-hour broadcast of the last Tragically Hip concert Saturday night, according to CBC.

11.7 million Canadians couldn’t resist hearing and watching the beloved Canadian band and its front man Gord Downie who revealed earlier this year he has terminal brain cancer.

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