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
Joe* Glazer We are Building a New Party A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Respect You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)
Ellen McIlwaine Born Under a Bad Sign Fear Itself
Dick Marx Orchestra and Choir* Here Come the Hawks Here Come the Hawks b/w Here Come the Hawks (instrumental) (picture sleeve)
Zambonis* Hockey Marlee To Bleed Black and Gold
Ellen McIlwaine Up From the Skies Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Cal* Bostic Longing for You (Cal Bostic) Introducing...
Priscilla* Rollins Tell Him that You Love Him Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Priscilla* Rollins I Know Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Priscilla* Rollins I'm Sorry Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ellen McIlwaine Underground River Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Priscilla* Rollins Let the Good Times Roll Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ellen McIlwaine All to You We the People
Nelson* Riddle The Okanagan British Columbia Suite
Oscar* McLollie Chilliwack Valley B.C. (Oscar McLollie) ST
Jonathan Edwards Let the Rough Side Drag Sailboat
Ellen McIlwaine Losing You Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Country Mcdonald Joe* The Call War War War
Ellen McIlwaine Cure My Blues Everybody Needs It
Ellen McIlwaine Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Buddy Knox Mary Lou ST
Albert Jones* I Feel So Good The Facts of Life
Aarons And Ackley* Devil Song ST
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* I Need You Amist the Black Eyes
Zambonis* Leave Your Stink at the Rink To Bleed Black and Gold
Country Mcdonald Joe* The March Of The Dead War War War
Sidewinders A Voyage Flatfoot Hustlin'
Ellen McIlwaine Regretting Blues Everybody Needs It
Buddy Knox Don't Make Me Cry ST
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* The Boat is Rocking Ukrainian Pops
Buddy Knox C'mon Baby ST (mono)
Priscilla* Rollins You Send Me Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ellen McIlwaine Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune We the People
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* I'm a Song (Reprise) I'm a Song
Ellen McIlwaine Ain't No Two Ways About It (It's Love) Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ernie* Smith Take Your Time To Behold Jah
Buddy Knox Hula Love ST
Jack Holland I'll Pick Her Up The Eyes of a Dreamer
Oscar* McLollie Like to Live the Love ST
Ellen McIlwaine It's Growing Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ernie* Smith Top Rankin Skankin To Behold Jah
Yukon* Nova Scotia Nova Scotia b/w Genius
Loni Gamble Dance to it ST
Ellen McIlwaine Sliding Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Country Mcdonald Joe* War Widow War War War
Ellen McIlwaine Lazarus Fear Itself
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* A Cossack Beyond the Danube Ukrainian Pops
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Street Girl Love Serenade
Matt Lucas* I'm Movin' On The Old Man b/w I'm Movin' On
Ellen McIlwaine The Last Good Man in My Life Ellen McIlwaine
Zambonis* Helmet (instrumental) To Bleed Black and Gold
Ellen McIlwaine I Want Whacha Got (Boston Song) Everybody Needs It
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* Bohemian I'm a Song
Ellen McIlwaine Wade in the Water Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Aarons And Ackley* You And I You And I
Jack Holland Sylvia The Eyes of a Dreamer
David Amram Alfred the Hog Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Ellen McIlwaine Toe Hold Honky Tonk Angel
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Jakiv Came to Visit Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Ellen McIlwaine Farther Along We the People
Jonathan Edwards Girl from the Canyon Sailboat
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* I Loved a Widow Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Aarons And Ackley* Sailor Song ST
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Moanin Shirley Lewis Show Band
Ursa Major* Sinner ST
Aarons And Ackley* Truly You And I
Ernie* Smith Bend Down Skareggae
Ellen McIlwaine Money Can't Save You Ellen McIlwaine
Nelson* Riddle The Caribou British Columbia Suite
Happy Dolls Hello Dolly Show Album No. 1
Ellen McIlwaine It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Honky Tonk Angel
Albert Jones* She Lost Her Faith The Facts of Life
Ellen McIlwaine Lover's Lane Ellen McIlwaine
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Love Serenade Love Serenade
Ellen McIlwaine (I Gotta) Ramble Just Like You Ellen McIlwaine
Jonathan Edwards Blow On Chilly Wind Sailboat
Ellen McIlwaine Ain't No Two Ways To It (It's Love) We the People
Exponians My Peaceful World Wicked Woman My Peaceful World
Jack Holland Roasalie The Eyes of a Dreamer
Happy Dolls Drum Solo Show Album No. 1
Ellen McIlwaine In My Time of Dying Fear Itself
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* Grandpa Tell Me One More Story I'm a Song
Albert Jones* You and Your Love The Facts of Life
David Amram Deep South Evening Light Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Matt Lucas* New Orleans Woman Matt Gets Blue
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Kolomayka Ukrainian Pops
Zambonis* Let's Go Whalers To Bleed Black and Gold
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Unleash the Horses Boys Ukrainian Pops
Sidewinders Can't You Feel the Fire Flatfoot Hustlin'
Jonathan Edwards Sailboat Sailboat
Ellen McIlwaine Underground River Fear Itself
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Polissian Polka 'Mazury' Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Charmaines* (You Are) Hypnotized (You Are) Hypnotized b/w The One For Me (promo)
Ellen McIlwaine Nothing Left to be Desired Everybody Needs It
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Handzya Ukrainian Pops
Oscar* McLollie As Long As You Care at All So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Two Little Oaks On a Mountain Ukrainian Pops
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Halya Carries the Water Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Dils* Sound of the Rain (Le sond de la pluit) Made In Canada
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Livin' the Blues Shirley Lewis Show Band

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

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

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)

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

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