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
Oscar* McLollie For the Good Times ST
Jack Holland I'll Pick Her Up The Eyes of a Dreamer
Oscar* McLollie Love Will Get You ST
Nelson* Riddle Valley of the Swans British Columbia Suite
Ellen McIlwaine Lover's Lane Ellen McIlwaine
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Stormy Weather Amist the Black Eyes
Aarons And Ackley* Girl I've Been Waiting You And I
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* I'm Gonna Love You Baby I'm a Song
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* O Moon Do Not Shine Ukrainian Pops
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* The Lady is a Tramp Amist the Black Eyes
Ernie* Smith Bend Down Skareggae
Nelson* Riddle Barkerville British Columbia Suite
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Boots Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Ellen McIlwaine Hang On to a Dream Everybody Needs It
Jonathan Edwards How About You Sailboat
Aarons And Ackley* Sailor Song ST
Priscilla* Rollins You Send Me Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Country Mcdonald Joe* The Call War War War
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* The Boat is Rocking Ukrainian Pops
Zambonis* Hockey Marlee To Bleed Black and Gold
Happy Dolls Drum Solo Show Album No. 1
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Respect You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)
Ernie* Smith Oh But If I Skareggae
Ellen McIlwaine Can't Find My Way Home Honky Tonk Angel
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Theme from Canada Love Serenade
Jack Holland You Can't Make a Dancer The Eyes of a Dreamer
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* I Will Go Into The Distant Mountains Ukrainian Pops
Cal* Bostic In Love Again (Cal Bostic) Introducing...
Sidewinders I Like Your Stuff Flatfoot Hustlin'
Loni Gamble Dance to it ST
Ellen McIlwaine Love and Devotion Ellen McIlwaine
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Your Seduced Me Ти Ж Мене Підманула Ukrainian Pops
Buddy Knox Rock Around the Clock ST
Alpha Centauri Hard Life ST
Ursa Major* Liberty and Justice ST
Buddy Knox Maybelline ST
Buddy Knox I'm In Love With You ST
Ellen McIlwaine Danger Zone Everybody Needs It
Ellen McIlwaine Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven (But Nobody Wants to Die) Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Green Rye Ukrainian Pops
Ellen McIlwaine Wade in the Water Honky Tonk Angel
Hopeton* Lewis Story Book Children Think Positive // Story Book Children
Aarons And Ackley* Sleeping Gypsy ST
Zambonis* Cool Shots (Theme Song) To Bleed Black and Gold
Oscar* McLollie Chilliwack Valley Chilliwack Valley b/w She's a Child
Sidewinders Can't You Feel the Fire Flatfoot Hustlin'
Jonathan Edwards Blow On Chilly Wind Sailboat
Ellen McIlwaine Don't You Have any Love in Your Heart? Ellen McIlwaine
Ellen McIlwaine Toe Hold Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Alpha Centauri Love Only You ST
Sidewinders A Voyage Flatfoot Hustlin'
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Kolomayka Ukrainian Pops
Ellen McIlwaine Ode to Billy Joe Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
David Amram Your Smile On My Mind Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Jack Holland Waco The Eyes of a Dreamer
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Livin' the Blues Shirley Lewis Show Band
Jonathan Edwards Let the Rough Side Drag Sailboat
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Hard Days Night And I Love Her
Charmaines* (You Are) Hypnotized (You Are) Hypnotized b/w The One For Me (promo)
Priscilla* Rollins I Know Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Charmaines* The One For Me (You Are) Hypnotized b/w The One For Me (promo)
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Black Eyes (Ship of) Amist the Black Eyes
Ellen McIlwaine Wings of a Horse Honky Tonk Angel
Buddy Knox Rock-a-Billy Walk ST
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra I See Your Face Before Me And I Love Her
Oscar* McLollie So Pleasing Loving You So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All
Ellen McIlwaine Crawling Kingsnake Fear Itself
Jonathan Edwards Sailboat Sailboat
Ellen McIlwaine Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Aarons And Ackley* Take Me Home ST
Aarons And Ackley* Devil Song ST
Cal* Bostic Georgie Girl Introducing...
Sidewinders I Like to Dance Flatfoot Hustlin'
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Moolit Night Ніч Яка Місячна Ukrainian Pops
Ellen McIlwaine Lazarus Fear Itself
Ellen McIlwaine Bow'd Up Fear Itself
Ernie* Smith Bend Down Low Skareggae
Aarons And Ackley* Annalee ST
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* I'm a Song I'm a Song
Buddy Knox Long Lonely Nights ST (mono)
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) You're Getting Better Love Serenade
Yukon* Nova Scotia Nova Scotia b/w Genius
Ellen McIlwaine In My Time of Dying Fear Itself
Happy Dolls Sweet Gypsy Rose Show Album No. 1
Jonathan Edwards People Get Ready Sailboat
Ursa Major* Sinner ST
Exponians Yellow Bird Wicked Woman My Peaceful World
Nelson* Riddle Butchart Gardens British Columbia Suite
Ernie* Smith Freedom Street Skareggae
David Amram Deep South Evening Light Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Matt* Lucas I'm Movin' On The Old Man b/w I'm Movin' On
Nelson* Riddle The Okanagan British Columbia Suite
Priscilla* Rollins Sad Movies Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Bluebird* Country Boy Blues Country Boy Blues b/w A Good Thing Lost
Loni Gamble Circles ST
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Lady's Dream And I Love Her
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Hutsal Ksenia Ukrainian Pops
Ernie* Smith Time To Behold Jah
Ernie* Smith Freedom To Behold Jah
Buddy Knox That's Why I Cry ST (mono)

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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