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
Loni Gamble In love for the First Time ST
Aarons And Ackley* L.A. You And I
Jack Holland The Time Or the Place The Eyes of a Dreamer
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Green Power Love Serenade
Ellen McIlwaine Pinebo (My Story) Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Theme For the Countless And I Love Her
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Black Eyes (Ship of) Amist the Black Eyes
Oscar* McLollie Like to Live the Love ST
Ernie* Smith Everything Crash Skareggae
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Country Feelin' Amist the Black Eyes
Ellen McIlwaine Can't Find My Way Home Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
David Amram Your Smile On My Mind Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Rod Linnell with the Maritime All Stars Three Quarter Promenade Three Quarter Promenade // Presque Isle Eighth
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Are You Confused Love Serenade
Sidewinders I Like to Dance Flatfoot Hustlin'
Alpha Centauri Love is a Curse ST
Ursa Major* Back to the Land ST
Cal* Bostic In Love Again (Cal Bostic) Introducing...
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Like Some One In Love And I Love Her
Tony McManus Inveran - The Devil in the Kitchen - Locheil's Away to France The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions)
Dils* Sound of the Rain (Le sond de la pluit) Made In Canada
Dave Gordon & Kay* I Love That Hockey Team I Love That Hockey Team b/w The Fiddler's Widow
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Hutsal Ksenia Ukrainian Pops
Country Mcdonald Joe* The March Of The Dead War War War
Ellen McIlwaine Steal Him Away Ellen McIlwaine
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Your Seduced Me Ти Ж Мене Підманула Ukrainian Pops
Jonathan Edwards Never Together Sailboat
Ernie* Smith Who I Am To Behold Jah
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Love Serenade Love Serenade
Nelson* Riddle Butchart Gardens British Columbia Suite
Ellen McIlwaine The Last Good Man in My Life Ellen McIlwaine
Buddy Knox Party Doll ST
Ellen McIlwaine Underground River We the People
Buddy Knox Rock Your Little Baby to Sleep ST
Nelson* Riddle Peace River British Columbia Suite
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* Late Night Movies I'm a Song
Aarons And Ackley* Annalee ST
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Theme from Canada Love Serenade
Country Mcdonald Joe* Young Fellow, My Lad War War War
Joe* Glazer A Douglas for Me A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Happy Dolls Shake Your Booty Show Album No. 1
Sidewinders Time For Loving Flatfoot Hustlin'
David Amram Song for Kenya Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Ellen McIlwaine Bow'd Up Fear Itself
Ellen McIlwaine It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Happy Dolls Bombie Show Album No. 1
Priscilla* Rollins I Know Lover's Choice Vol. 1
David Amram Alfred the Hog Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Jonathan Edwards Girl from the Canyon Sailboat
Zambonis* Boom Boom Boom To Bleed Black and Gold
Matt* Lucas Massage Parlour Blues Matt Gets Blue
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Bukovynian Dance Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Lady's Dream And I Love Her
Ursa Major* Stage Door Queen ST
Alpha Centauri Make it at Rock 'n' Roll ST
Ernie* Smith Top Rankin Skankin To Behold Jah
Yukon* Genius Nova Scotia b/w Genius
Cal* Bostic Let Me Love You Introducing...
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Halya Carries the Water Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Take Twenty Love Serenade
Matt* Lucas Men's Liberation Matt Gets Blue
Ellen McIlwaine Love and Devotion Ellen McIlwaine
Zambonis* Cool Shots (Theme Song) To Bleed Black and Gold
Ernie* Smith Freedom To Behold Jah
Aarons And Ackley* Don't You And I
Aarons And Ackley* Take Me Home ST
Ellen McIlwaine All to You Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Jonathan Edwards Evangelina Sailboat
Ellen McIlwaine Ode to Billie Joe Honky Tonk Angel
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Kozak Dance Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Zambonis* Live Intro - Hockey Monkey To Bleed Black and Gold
Jonathan Edwards Sailboat Sailboat
Ellen McIlwaine Come Sit Down and Tell Me Everybody Needs It
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) (There's a Lot of Different Kind of) People in the World Love Serenade
Ellen McIlwaine Lazarus Fear Itself
Ellen McIlwaine Jimmy Jean We the People
Loni Gamble Dance to it ST
Ellen McIlwaine In My Time of Dying Fear Itself
Alpha Centauri I'm a Rebel ST
Ellen McIlwaine Hang On to a Dream Everybody Needs It
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Moolit Night Ніч Яка Місячна Ukrainian Pops
Buddy Knox Rock-a-Billy Walk ST
Ellen McIlwaine I Don't Want to Play We the People
Ellen McIlwaine I Don't Want to Play Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ellen McIlwaine Wings of a Horse Honky Tonk Angel
Jonathan Edwards Weapon of Prayer Sailboat
Jonathan Edwards Let the Rough Side Drag Sailboat
Ellen McIlwaine I Want Whacha Got (Boston Song) Everybody Needs It
Oscar* McLollie Chilliwack Valley B.C. (Oscar McLollie) ST
Rod Linnell with the Maritime All Stars Maple Sugar Two Step Maple Sugar Two Step // I Want a Girl
Jack Holland Sylvia The Eyes of a Dreamer
Ellen McIlwaine Wade in the Water Honky Tonk Angel
Exponians The Look of Love Wicked Woman My Peaceful World
Ellen McIlwaine Weird of Hermiston Honky Tonk Angel
Jack Holland Waco The Eyes of a Dreamer
Albert Jones* Hussle Disco The Facts of Life
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Two Little Oaks On a Mountain Ukrainian Pops
Ellen McIlwaine Say a Single Word Everybody Needs It
Ellen McIlwaine Ain't No Two Ways To It (It's Love) We the People
Zambonis* To Bleed Black and Gold To Bleed Black and Gold

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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