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
Jonathan Edwards Never Together Sailboat
Country Mcdonald Joe* The Munition Maker War War War
Cal* Bostic Let It Be Me Introducing...
Loni Gamble Could it be Love ST
Zambonis* Hockey Marlee To Bleed Black and Gold
Aarons And Ackley* Almost Five O'Clock You And I
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* A Hanging Apple Висить Ябко Ukrainian Pops
Zambonis* To Bleed Black and Gold To Bleed Black and Gold
Ellen McIlwaine Crawling Kingsnake Fear Itself
Matt Lucas* The Nuthouse Matt Gets Blue
Ellen McIlwaine I Don't Want to Play We the People
Albert Jones* You and Your Love The Facts of Life
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Street Girl Love Serenade
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Jakiv Came to Visit Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Ellen McIlwaine Danger Zone Everybody Needs It
Ernie* Smith Top Rankin Skankin To Behold Jah
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
The Revelaires* She Wears My Ring You're So Wrong b/w She Wears My Ring
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Fisherboys Ukrainian Pops
Zambonis* The Hockey Song Playoff Fever
David Amram Deep South Evening Light Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Shake a Hand Amist the Black Eyes
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Show and Tell Love Serenade
Ellen McIlwaine Pinebo (My Story) Honky Tonk Angel
Nelson* Riddle Victoria British Columbia Suite
Country Mcdonald Joe* Jean Desprez War War War
Priscilla* Rollins Letter to Mommy & Daddy Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ellen McIlwaine The Letter Fear Itself
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Halya Carries the Water Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Good Time Blues Shirley Lewis Show Band
Priscilla* Rollins If You Should Lose Me Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Jonathan Edwards Let the Rough Side Drag Sailboat
Ellen McIlwaine Hang On to a Dream Everybody Needs It
Ellen McIlwaine Lazarus Fear Itself
Joe* Glazer This Land is Your Land A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Ellen McIlwaine Cure My Blues Everybody Needs It
Jack Holland You Can't Make a Dancer The Eyes of a Dreamer
Ellen McIlwaine Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven (But Nobody Wants to Die) Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* Late Night Movies I'm a Song
Ellen McIlwaine Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune We the People
Ernie* Smith Time To Behold Jah
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* Till You're Loving Me Again I'm a Song
Matt Lucas* The Peepin' Tom Matt Gets Blue
Priscilla* Rollins You Send Me Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Joe* Glazer A Douglas for Me A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Ernie* Smith Bend Down Skareggae
Ellen McIlwaine Everybody Needs It Everybody Needs It
Ellen McIlwaine Bow'd Up Fear Itself
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Kozak Dance Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Bluebird* Country Boy Blues Country Boy Blues b/w A Good Thing Lost
Aarons And Ackley* Girl I've Been Waiting You And I
Jack Holland I'll Pick Her Up The Eyes of a Dreamer
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra It Only Takes a Moment And I Love Her
Happy Dolls Funky Stuff Show Album No. 1
Jack Holland There's More to Come The Eyes of a Dreamer
Loni Gamble It's You ST
Ellen McIlwaine Farther Along Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Priscilla* Rollins I'm Sorry Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Hard Days Night And I Love Her
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Boots Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Ellen McIlwaine In My Time of Dying Fear Itself
Nelson* Riddle The Okanagan British Columbia Suite
Joe* Glazer We are Building a New Party A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Ellen McIlwaine Underground River Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Buddy Knox Maybelline ST
Sidewinders I Like Your Stuff Flatfoot Hustlin'
Ellen McIlwaine Don't You Have any Love in Your Heart? Ellen McIlwaine
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Halya Несе Галя Воду Ukrainian Pops
Nelson* Riddle Government House British Columbia Suite
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* I'm a Song (Reprise) I'm a Song
Oscar* McLollie The Way You Do the Things You Do ST
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Take Twenty Love Serenade
Albert Jones* Hussle Disco The Facts of Life
Ernie* Smith Freedom Street Skareggae
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* The Boat is Rocking Ukrainian Pops
Cal* Bostic Somewhere My Love Introducing...
Ursa Major* Stage Door Queen ST
Ellen McIlwaine Toe Hold Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Happy Dolls Drum Solo Show Album No. 1
Loni Gamble Circles ST
Nelson* Riddle Valley of the Swans British Columbia Suite
Dave Gordon & Kay* I Love That Hockey Team I Love That Hockey Team b/w The Fiddler's Widow
Ellen McIlwaine Wings of a Horse Honky Tonk Angel
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Hard Hard Times Shirley Lewis Show Band
Priscilla* Rollins Let the Good Times Roll Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ellen McIlwaine Keep On Everybody Needs It
Ellen McIlwaine Up From the Skies Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Jack Holland Get it Behind You Girl The Eyes of a Dreamer
Yukon* Nova Scotia Nova Scotia b/w Genius
Nelson* Riddle Garibaldi Mountain British Columbia Suite
Sidewinders Gift to the Sun Flatfoot Hustlin'
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Can't Eat Shirley Lewis Show Band
Cal* Bostic Excessive Love (Cal Bostic) Introducing...
Buddy Knox Swingin' Daddy ST (mono)
Aarons And Ackley* Swanee Song ST
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) You're Getting Better Love Serenade
Oscar* McLollie So Pleasing Loving You So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Honky Tonk Woman Love Serenade
Nelson* Riddle Barkerville British Columbia Suite
Ernie* Smith Ska Medley: Jamaica Ska; Humpty Dumpty; A Little More Oil; Six And Seven Books; Oh Manny Oh Skareggae

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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