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'
Albert Jones* Mother Nature The Facts of Life
Jack Holland Get it Behind You Girl The Eyes of a Dreamer
Ellen McIlwaine Bow'd Up Fear Itself
Albert Jones* Every Little Thing That I Do The Facts of Life
Matt* Lucas Leave the Light On Baby Matt Gets Blue
Exponians The Look of Love Wicked Woman My Peaceful World
Ellen McIlwaine Love and Devotion Ellen McIlwaine
Ernie* Smith Freedom To Behold Jah
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* The Betrothed Girl Ukrainian Pops
Ellen McIlwaine Sliding Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
David Amram Deep South Evening Light Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Ernie* Smith Wash Wash (That Lucky Old Sun) Skareggae
Nelson* Riddle Government House British Columbia Suite
David Amram The Mountain Song Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Ellen McIlwaine Steal Him Away Ellen McIlwaine
Priscilla* Rollins Going Out of My Head Over You Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Aarons And Ackley* Sailor Song ST
Alpha Centauri Love is a Curse ST
Cal* Bostic Excessive Love (Cal Bostic) Introducing...
Country Mcdonald Joe* The March Of The Dead War War War
Priscilla* Rollins Feel So Good Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Oscar* McLollie Like to Live the Love ST
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Ill Wind And I Love Her
Ellen McIlwaine Ain't No Two Ways To It (It's Love) We the People
Priscilla* Rollins Magic Moment Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Rod Linnell with the Maritime All Stars Presque Isle Eighth Three Quarter Promenade // Presque Isle Eighth
Priscilla* Rollins Sweet Inspiration Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ellen McIlwaine Losing You Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Joe* Glazer This Land is Your Land A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Ellen McIlwaine In My Time of Dying Fear Itself
Matt* Lucas Herpes Blues Matt Gets Blue
Cal* Bostic Longing for You (Cal Bostic) Introducing...
Cal* Bostic Let It Be Me Introducing...
Ellen McIlwaine Mossy Dream Fear Itself
Oscar* McLollie Chilliwack Valley B.C. (Oscar McLollie) ST
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Traditional 'Trojista' Music Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Aarons And Ackley* Annalee ST
Ellen McIlwaine Money Can't Save You Ellen McIlwaine
Ellen McIlwaine Say a Single Word Everybody Needs It
Buddy Knox Mary Lou ST
Happy Dolls Drum Solo Show Album No. 1
Alpha Centauri One Night at a Time ST
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra And I Love Her And I Love Her
Ernie* Smith Bend Down Skareggae
Jonathan Edwards Weapon of Prayer Sailboat
Ernie* Smith Show Me a Sign To Behold Jah
Oscar* McLollie Blues in Nova Scotia (Oscar McLollie) ST
Exponians My Peaceful World Wicked Woman My Peaceful World
Charmaines* (You Are) Hypnotized (You Are) Hypnotized b/w The One For Me (promo)
Happy Dolls Pick Up the Pieces Show Album No. 1
Buddy Knox That's Why I Cry ST (mono)
Ellen McIlwaine Jimmy Jean Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ellen McIlwaine Come Sit Down and Tell Me Everybody Needs It
Hopeton* Lewis Think Positive Think Positive // Story Book Children
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Verkhovyna Our Liitle World Ukrainian Pops
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Two Little Oaks On a Mountain Ukrainian Pops
Cal* Bostic There You Are Introducing...
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Black Eyes (Ship of) Amist the Black Eyes
Cal* Bostic In Love Again (Cal Bostic) Introducing...
Jack Holland You Can't Make a Dancer The Eyes of a Dreamer
Oscar* McLollie As Long As You Care at All So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All
Buddy Knox Devil Woman ST
Cal* Bostic May I Introducing...
Ernie* Smith Freedom Street Skareggae
Oscar* McLollie Girl of Mine ST
Oscar* McLollie The Way You Do the Things You Do ST
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Take Twenty Love Serenade
Aarons And Ackley* Devil Song ST
Priscilla* Rollins You Send Me Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Jonathan Edwards Evangelina Sailboat
Cal* Bostic Just a Boy And Girl in Love (Doug Randle) Introducing...
Sidewinders Can't You Feel the Fire Flatfoot Hustlin'
Ellen McIlwaine Up From the Skies Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Zambonis* Live Intro - Hockey Monkey To Bleed Black and Gold
Exponians Wicked Woman Wicked Woman My Peaceful World
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Your Seduced Me Ти Ж Мене Підманула Ukrainian Pops
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Halya Несе Галя Воду Ukrainian Pops
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Bukovynian Dance Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Charmaines* The One For Me (You Are) Hypnotized b/w The One For Me (promo)
Sidewinders I Like to Dance Flatfoot Hustlin'
Albert Jones* That's the Way You Lost My Love The Facts of Life
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Country Feelin' Amist the Black Eyes
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Livin' the Blues Shirley Lewis Show Band
Matt* Lucas Tomcat Blues Matt Gets Blue
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Theme from Canada Love Serenade
Aarons And Ackley* There Is A Lady ST
Ernie* Smith Everything Crash Skareggae
Priscilla* Rollins There Goes My Baby Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Good Time Blues Shirley Lewis Show Band
Ellen McIlwaine Lazarus Fear Itself
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) (There's a Lot of Different Kind of) People in the World Love Serenade
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) You're Getting Better Love Serenade
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Fisherboys Ukrainian Pops
Ellen McIlwaine Weird of Hermiston Honky Tonk Angel
Tony McManus The Maids of Mitchelstown The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions)
Ernie* Smith Don't Down Me Now To Behold Jah
Aarons And Ackley* Swanee Song ST
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Boots Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Nelson* Riddle Valley of the Swans British Columbia Suite

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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