Honorary Canadians

Honorary Canadians

This room is dedicated to the artists who, while not born here, made a meaningful mark on Canadian music. Whether they came to record, perform, collaborate, or simply found inspiration on Canadian soil, these Honorary Canadians became part of the story. Some stayed briefly, others put down roots—but all contributed to the cultural fabric in unique ways. From one-off sessions to lasting legacies, this is a salute to the outsiders who felt right at home in Canada.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Sidewinders Flat Foot Hustlin' Flatfoot Hustlin'
Jack Holland Sylvia The Eyes of a Dreamer
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Gospel Medley: Swing Low Chariot; Amen; Michael Row Your Boat Ashore; He's Got the Whole World in His Hands Amist the Black Eyes
Alpha Centauri Love is a Curse ST
David Amram Song for Kenya Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Priscilla* Rollins Why Can't I touch You Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Hard Days Night And I Love Her
Jack Holland Get it Behind You Girl The Eyes of a Dreamer
Ellen McIlwaine Losing You Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ellen McIlwaine Crawling Kingsnake Fear Itself
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Country Feelin' Amist the Black Eyes
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* A Cossack Beyond the Danube Ukrainian Pops
Loni Gamble Dance to it ST
Ernie* Smith Time To Behold Jah
Buddy Knox Rock Around the Clock ST
Ellen McIlwaine Keep On Everybody Needs It
Mike* Ferro Bridges Bridges b/w Soldier In The Rain
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* The Boat is Rocking Ukrainian Pops
David Amram Alfred the Hog Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Sidewinders Gift to the Sun Flatfoot Hustlin'
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* I'm Gonna Love You Baby I'm a Song
Ellen McIlwaine In My Time of Dying Fear Itself
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) (There's a Lot of Different Kind of) People in the World Love Serenade
Nelson* Riddle Government House British Columbia Suite
Dave Gordon & Kay* I Love That Hockey Team I Love That Hockey Team b/w The Fiddler's Widow
Aarons And Ackley* N.F.S. You And I
Dick Marx Orchestra and Choir* Here Come the Hawks Here Come the Hawks b/w Here Come the Hawks (instrumental) (picture sleeve)
Ellen McIlwaine I Don't Want to Play We the People
Ellen McIlwaine Sliding We the People
Country Mcdonald Joe* The Man From Athabaska War War War
Aarons And Ackley* Take Me Home ST
Loni Gamble It's You ST
Ursa Major* Silverspoon ST
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Hopak Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Zambonis* Helmet (instrumental) To Bleed Black and Gold
Priscilla* Rollins Let the Good Times Roll Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Joe* Glazer This Land is Your Land A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Ursa Major* In My Darkest Hour ST
Joe* Glazer The Farmer is the Man A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Aarons And Ackley* Sailor Song ST
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Two Little Oaks On a Mountain Ukrainian Pops
Jack Holland There's More to Come The Eyes of a Dreamer
Jack Holland The Eyes of a Dreamer The Eyes of a Dreamer
Charmaines* (You Are) Hypnotized (You Are) Hypnotized b/w The One For Me (promo)
Ellen McIlwaine We the People We the People
Happy Dolls Sweet Gypsy Rose Show Album No. 1
Priscilla* Rollins I Know Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ellen McIlwaine Underground River We the People
David Amram Summer Nights, Winter Rain Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Buddy Knox Party Doll ST
Aarons And Ackley* Five O'Clock You And I
Sidewinders I Like Your Stuff Flatfoot Hustlin'
Cal* Bostic Let Me Love You Introducing...
Tommy Makem Vancouver Vancouver b/w Better Times
Ellen McIlwaine Regretting Blues Everybody Needs It
Oscar* McLollie For the Good Times ST
Oscar* McLollie Buried Alive ST
Buddy Knox Teasable, Pleasable You ST (mono)
Matt* Lucas I'm Movin' On The Old Man b/w I'm Movin' On
Alpha Centauri One Night at a Time ST
Happy Dolls Misty Blue Show Album No. 1
Nelson* Riddle Moving Ahead British Columbia Suite
Country Mcdonald Joe* The Munition Maker War War War
Country Mcdonald Joe* Forward War War War
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Hutsal Ksenia Ukrainian Pops
Alpha Centauri Love Only You ST
Nelson* Riddle Garibaldi Mountain British Columbia Suite
Alpha Centauri Make it at Rock 'n' Roll ST
Aarons And Ackley* Willie Boy ST
Priscilla* Rollins Softer Moments Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Jonathan Edwards Let the Rough Side Drag Sailboat
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Respect You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* Late Night Movies I'm a Song
Ernie* Smith Ska Medley: Jamaica Ska; Humpty Dumpty; A Little More Oil; Six And Seven Books; Oh Manny Oh Skareggae
Matt* Lucas Massage Parlour Blues Matt Gets Blue
Aarons And Ackley* Sleeping Gypsy ST
Hopeton* Lewis Think Positive Think Positive // Story Book Children
Jonathan Edwards Evangelina Sailboat
Ellen McIlwaine Lazarus Fear Itself
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Black Brows Dark Brown Eyes Ukrainian Pops
Albert Jones* Mother Nature The Facts of Life
Ellen McIlwaine Cure My Blues Everybody Needs It
Ellen McIlwaine Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ellen McIlwaine Jimmy Jean Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Exponians Yellow Bird Wicked Woman My Peaceful World
Oscar* McLollie Like to Live the Love ST
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Handzya Ukrainian Pops
Cal* Bostic Let It Be Me Introducing...
Ellen McIlwaine Up From the Skies Honky Tonk Angel
Nelson* Riddle Butchart Gardens British Columbia Suite
Priscilla* Rollins If You Should Lose Me Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ellen McIlwaine It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra It Only Takes a Moment And I Love Her
Matt* Lucas The Peepin' Tom Matt Gets Blue
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Good Time Blues Shirley Lewis Show Band
Oscar* McLollie Blues in Nova Scotia (Oscar McLollie) ST
Cal* Bostic Somewhere My Love Introducing...
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Black Eyes (Ship of) Amist the Black Eyes
Tony McManus Inveran - The Devil in the Kitchen - Locheil's Away to France The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions)
Yukon* Nova Scotia Nova Scotia b/w Genius

Ursa Major* - ST

New York, New York, U.S.A.

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Ellen McIlwaine

Nashville, Tennessee, 🇺🇸 → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel

Nashville, Tennessee, 🇺🇸 → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - We the People

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Country Mcdonald Joe* - War War War

Washington, DC, USA

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Amist the Black Eyes

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Shirley Lewis Show Band

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* - I'm a Song

Birmingham, England, UK→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Cal* Bostic - Introducing...

Anniston, Alabama, 🇺🇸→Port Arthur, Ontario, 🇨🇦→Erie, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Aarons And Ackley* - ST

Portland, Oregon, 🇺🇸 (Jim Ackley); Cleveland, Ohio, 🇺🇸 (Chuck Aarons) - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Matt* Lucas - Matt Gets Blue

Memphis, Tennessee, USA → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Matt* Lucas - The Old Man b/w I'm Movin' On

Memphis, Tennessee, USA → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Tommy Makem - Vancouver b/w Better Times

Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland → Dover, New Hampshire, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Dover, New Hampshire, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - ST

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - Chilliwack Valley b/w She's a Child

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

David Amram - Summer Nights, Winter Rain

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸*

FEATURED

Bluebird* - Country Boy Blues b/w A Good Thing Lost

Mercer Island, Washington, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Loni Gamble - ST

Philadelphia, 🇺🇸 - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Dave Gordon & Kay* - I Love That Hockey Team b/w The Fiddler's Widow

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

FEATURED

Albert Jones* - The Facts of Life

Gary, Indiana, 🇺🇸 - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Alpha Centauri - ST

Priscilla* Rollins - Lover's Choice Vol. 1

Nassau, Bahamas - Toronto, Ontario

Eddie* Murray - Montreal, Canada Blues b/w Stepping High Dance

FEATURED

Dils* - Made In Canada

San Diego, California, USA - Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ernie* Smith - To Behold Jah

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario

ST

Ursa Major - ST Side 2

Ursa Major - ST Side 1

Ursa Major - ST BACK

Ellen McIlwaine

Honky Tonk Angel

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel LABEL 02

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel LABEL 01

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel BACK

Ellen McIlwaine

Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years

Everybody Needs It

We the People

Fear Itself

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself (6)

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself (5)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (8)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (7)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (6)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (4)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (3)

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It (3)

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It (2)

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It (1)

Ellen McIlwaine - We the People (2)

Ellen McIlwaine - We the People (1)

War War War

Amist the Black Eyes

Shirley Granger - Amist the Black Eyes MINT LABEL 02

Shirley Granger - Amist the Black Eyes MINT LABEL 01

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