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
Ellen McIlwaine Steal Him Away Ellen McIlwaine
Aarons And Ackley* Don't You And I
Ernie* Smith Bend Down Low Skareggae
Aarons And Ackley* Sailor Song ST
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Unleash the Horses Boys Ukrainian Pops
Priscilla* Rollins Let the Good Times Roll Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ellen McIlwaine Jimmy Jean Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Nelson* Riddle The Caribou British Columbia Suite
Ellen McIlwaine Everybody Needs It Everybody Needs It
Jonathan Edwards Evangelina Sailboat
Happy Dolls Drum Solo Show Album No. 1
Zambonis* Leave Your Stink at the Rink To Bleed Black and Gold
Buddy Knox Hula Love ST
Dils* Not Worth It (Ca ne veux pas le pleine) Made In Canada
Tommy Makem Vancouver Vancouver b/w Better Times
Ellen McIlwaine Sliding Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ernie* Smith Everything Crash Skareggae
Alpha Centauri Make it at Rock 'n' Roll ST
Ellen McIlwaine Up From the Skies Honky Tonk Angel
Ellen McIlwaine Keep On Everybody Needs It
Zambonis* Boom Boom Boom To Bleed Black and Gold
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* You're My Honey I'm a Song
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* The Boat is Rocking Ukrainian Pops
David Amram The Mountain Song Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Alpha Centauri Love is a Curse ST
Ellen McIlwaine Nothing Left to be Desired Everybody Needs It
Oscar* McLollie Blues in Nova Scotia (Oscar McLollie) ST
Ursa Major* Sinner ST
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Stormy Weather Amist the Black Eyes
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Reapers Harvest Ukrainian Pops
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Are You Confused Love Serenade
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* You Belong to Me You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)
Jack Holland The Time Or the Place The Eyes of a Dreamer
Ellen McIlwaine Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ellen McIlwaine Jimmy Jean We the People
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Polissian Polka 'Mazury' Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Loni Gamble In love for the First Time ST
Ernie* Smith Wash Wash (That Lucky Old Sun) Skareggae
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Ill Wind And I Love Her
Buddy Knox Rock Your Little Baby to Sleep ST
Ernie* Smith Who I Am To Behold Jah
Nelson* Riddle Peace River British Columbia Suite
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* Late Night Movies I'm a Song
Zambonis* The Hockey Song Playoff Fever
Cal* Bostic Let Me Love You Introducing...
Ellen McIlwaine Ain't No Two Ways To It (It's Love) We the People
Ernie* Smith Freedom To Behold Jah
Ellen McIlwaine The Last Good Man in My Life Ellen McIlwaine
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Moanin Shirley Lewis Show Band
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra It Only Takes a Moment And I Love Her
Ellen McIlwaine Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune We the People
Ernie* Smith To Behold Jah To Behold Jah
Matt Lucas* I'm Movin' On The Old Man b/w I'm Movin' On
Oscar* McLollie So Pleasing Loving You So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* I Loved a Widow Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Ellen McIlwaine Weird of Hermiston Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Jack Holland Waco The Eyes of a Dreamer
Loni Gamble Circles ST
Albert Jones* You Stole My Love The Facts of Life
Ursa Major* Stage Door Queen ST
Jack Holland Roasalie The Eyes of a Dreamer
Oscar* McLollie Girl of Mine ST
Aarons And Ackley* Lay Me Down ST
Ellen McIlwaine It's Growing Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ellen McIlwaine All to You We the People
Ursa Major* Silverspoon ST
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Hopak Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Oscar* McLollie As Long As You Care at All So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All
Tony McManus Donal Og - The Lea Rig The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions)
Tony McManus Chalaneru The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions)
Ernie* Smith Don't Down Me Now To Behold Jah
Country Mcdonald Joe* Forward War War War
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* I'm Gonna Love You Baby I'm a Song
Joe* Glazer A Douglas for Me A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Rod Linnell with the Maritime All Stars Presque Isle Eighth Three Quarter Promenade // Presque Isle Eighth
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Green Power Love Serenade
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Hard Hard Times Shirley Lewis Show Band
Tony McManus Inveran - The Devil in the Kitchen - Locheil's Away to France The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions)
Jack Holland The Eyes of a Dreamer The Eyes of a Dreamer
Alpha Centauri Earth in Motion ST
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Kolomayka Ukrainian Pops
Ellen McIlwaine Billy Gene Fear Itself
Matt Lucas* Men's Liberation Matt Gets Blue
Oscar* McLollie Like to Live the Love ST
Country Mcdonald Joe* War Widow War War War
Ernie* Smith Show Me a Sign To Behold Jah
Bluebird* Country Boy Blues Country Boy Blues b/w A Good Thing Lost
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* A Cossack Beyond the Danube Ukrainian Pops
Joe* Glazer We are Building a New Party A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Loni Gamble Could it be Love ST
Ellen McIlwaine Cure My Blues Everybody Needs It
Jack Holland Get it Behind You Girl The Eyes of a Dreamer
Nelson* Riddle Government House British Columbia Suite
Eddie* Murray Montreal, Canada Blues Montreal, Canada Blues b/w Stepping High Dance
Albert Jones* That's the Way You Lost My Love The Facts of Life
The Revelaires* She Wears My Ring You're So Wrong b/w She Wears My Ring
Jonathan Edwards How About You Sailboat
Ellen McIlwaine Mossy Dream Fear Itself
Zambonis* Cool Shots (Theme Song) To Bleed Black and Gold
Ellen McIlwaine In My Time of Dying Fear Itself

Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* - Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection

Kyiv, 🇺🇦

FEATURED

The Revelaires* - You're So Wrong b/w She Wears My Ring

Detroit, Michigan, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Revelaires* - Great Pretender b/w Cab Driver

Detroit, Michigan, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Matt Lucas* - Matt Gets Blue

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

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* - 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

Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection

You're So Wrong b/w She Wears My Ring

Great Pretender b/w Cab Driver

The Revelaires (3)

The Revelaires (2)

The Revelaires

The Revelaires You're So Wrong (1)

The Revelaires Great Pre (1)

Matt Gets Blue

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)

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