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
Priscilla* Rollins Let the Good Times Roll Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ellen McIlwaine Losing You Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ellen McIlwaine Losing You Honky Tonk Angel
Albert Jones* You Just Can't Turn Me Loose The Facts of Life
Joe* Glazer Solidarity Forever A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Yukon* Nova Scotia Nova Scotia b/w Genius
Albert Jones* Every Little Thing That I Do The Facts of Life
Mike* Ferro Soldier In The Rain Bridges b/w Soldier In The Rain
Ellen McIlwaine Regretting Blues Everybody Needs It
Country Mcdonald Joe* The Call War War War
Country Mcdonald Joe* The March Of The Dead War War War
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Buddy Knox Swingin' Daddy ST (mono)
Ellen McIlwaine Love and Devotion Ellen McIlwaine
Nelson* Riddle Vancouver Nights British Columbia Suite
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra And I Love Her And I Love Her
Sidewinders I Like to Dance Flatfoot Hustlin'
Albert Jones* I Feel So Good The Facts of Life
Country Mcdonald Joe* The Man From Athabaska War War War
Dave Gordon & Kay* I Love That Hockey Team I Love That Hockey Team b/w The Fiddler's Widow
Zambonis* Live Intro - Hockey Monkey To Bleed Black and Gold
Jonathan Edwards Evangelina Sailboat
Ellen McIlwaine Underground River Fear Itself
Tony McManus Chalaneru The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions)
Jack Holland Get it Behind You Girl The Eyes of a Dreamer
Oscar* McLollie Girl of Mine ST
Ellen McIlwaine Steal Him Away Ellen McIlwaine
The Revelaires* She Wears My Ring You're So Wrong b/w She Wears My Ring
Aarons And Ackley* Bonnie Blue You And I
Alpha Centauri Make it at Rock 'n' Roll ST
Bluebird* Country Boy Blues Country Boy Blues b/w A Good Thing Lost
Aarons And Ackley* Lay Me Down ST
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Show and Tell Love Serenade
Aarons And Ackley* Devil Song ST
Aarons And Ackley* Almost Five O'Clock You And I
Ernie* Smith Top Rankin Skankin To Behold Jah
Ellen McIlwaine I Want Whacha Got (Boston Song) Everybody Needs It
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* A Cossack Beyond the Danube Ukrainian Pops
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Reapers Harvest Ukrainian Pops
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Shake a Hand Amist the Black Eyes
Buddy Knox I'm In Love With You ST
Aarons And Ackley* Sleeping Gypsy ST
Ellen McIlwaine Say a Single Word Everybody Needs It
Ursa Major* In My Darkest Hour ST
Priscilla* Rollins You Send Me Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ellen McIlwaine Up From the Skies Honky Tonk Angel
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Halya Carries the Water Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Zambonis* Let's Go Whalers To Bleed Black and Gold
Rod Linnell with the Maritime All Stars Three Quarter Promenade Three Quarter Promenade // Presque Isle Eighth
Ellen McIlwaine Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven (But Nobody Wants to Die) We the People
Ellen McIlwaine Keep On Everybody Needs It
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Green Power Love Serenade
Jack Holland There's More to Come The Eyes of a Dreamer
Cal* Bostic Let Me Love You Introducing...
Buddy Knox Long Lonely Nights ST (mono)
Joe* Glazer It Could be a Wonderful World A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Oscar* McLollie For the Good Times ST
Ellen McIlwaine (I Gotta) Ramble Just Like You Ellen McIlwaine
Ernie* Smith Bend Down Low Skareggae
Happy Dolls Sweet Gypsy Rose Show Album No. 1
Country Mcdonald Joe* The Munition Maker War War War
Loni Gamble Dance to it ST
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Polissian Polka 'Mazury' Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) You're Getting Better Love Serenade
Ursa Major* Silverspoon ST
Ellen McIlwaine The Letter Fear Itself
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Hard Days Night And I Love Her
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* King of the Cops I'm a Song
Ellen McIlwaine I Don't Want to Play We the People
Ellen McIlwaine Hang On to a Dream Everybody Needs It
Nelson* Riddle Government House British Columbia Suite
Ernie* Smith Oh But If I Skareggae
Ellen McIlwaine Wings of a Horse Honky Tonk Angel
Ernie* Smith Money Can't Buy Life Skareggae
Sidewinders I Like Your Stuff Flatfoot Hustlin'
Oscar* McLollie Chilliwack Valley Chilliwack Valley b/w She's a Child
Ellen McIlwaine Ain't No Two Ways To It (It's Love) We the People
Zambonis* Leave Your Stink at the Rink To Bleed Black and Gold
Happy Dolls Misty Blue Show Album No. 1
Oscar* McLollie Love Will Get You ST
Buddy Knox Teasable, Pleasable You ST (mono)
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Verkhovyna Our Liitle World Ukrainian Pops
Country Mcdonald Joe* Forward War War War
Aarons And Ackley* You And I You And I
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Like Some One In Love And I Love Her
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Stormy Weather Amist the Black Eyes
Ellen McIlwaine Bow'd Up Fear Itself
Ellen McIlwaine Sliding Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Givin' Up the Man I Love Amist the Black Eyes
Ellen McIlwaine Ain't No Two Ways About It (It's Love) Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
The Revelaires* Cab Driver Great Pretender b/w Cab Driver
Ellen McIlwaine All to You We the People
Jonathan Edwards How About You Sailboat
Matt Lucas* New Orleans Woman Matt Gets Blue
Ernie* Smith Ska Medley: Jamaica Ska; Humpty Dumpty; A Little More Oil; Six And Seven Books; Oh Manny Oh Skareggae
Cal* Bostic May I Introducing...
Matt Lucas* Men's Liberation Matt Gets Blue
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Black Eyes (Ship of) Amist the Black Eyes
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Theme from Canada Love Serenade
Ellen McIlwaine We the People We the People

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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