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
Aarons And Ackley* Lay Me Down ST
Tony McManus Chalaneru The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions)
Ernie* Smith Ska Medley: Jamaica Ska; Humpty Dumpty; A Little More Oil; Six And Seven Books; Oh Manny Oh Skareggae
Country Mcdonald Joe* War Widow War War War
Dils* Sound of the Rain (Le sond de la pluit) Made In Canada
Joe* Glazer It Could be a Wonderful World A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Jonathan Edwards Girl from the Canyon Sailboat
Oscar* McLollie So Pleasing Loving You So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All
Jonathan Edwards How About You Sailboat
Ellen McIlwaine (I Gotta) Ramble Just Like You Ellen McIlwaine
Buddy Knox I Ain't Sharin' Sharon ST (mono)
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Halya Carries the Water Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Ellen McIlwaine All to You We the People
Albert* Jones Every Little Thing That I Do The Facts of Life
Alpha Centauri Love is a Curse ST
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* Grandpa Tell Me One More Story I'm a Song
Joe* Glazer We Shall Not Be Moved A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Matt* Lucas Tomcat Blues Matt Gets Blue
Aarons And Ackley* Five O'Clock You And I
Joe* Glazer New Democratic Party Train A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Ellen McIlwaine Can't Find My Way Home Honky Tonk Angel
Ellen McIlwaine For Suki Fear Itself
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Livin' the Blues Shirley Lewis Show Band
Country Mcdonald Joe* Young Fellow, My Lad War War War
Ellen McIlwaine Money Can't Save You Ellen McIlwaine
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Your Seduced Me Ти Ж Мене Підманула Ukrainian Pops
Exponians My Peaceful World Wicked Woman My Peaceful World
Loni Gamble In love for the First Time ST
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* I'm a Song I'm a Song
Cal* Bostic That's All Introducing...
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* Just a Few Words I'm a Song
Loni Gamble It's You ST
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Wedding March Ukrainian Pops
Matt* Lucas Vibrator Blues Matt Gets Blue
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra I See Your Face Before Me And I Love Her
Dick Marx Orchestra and Choir* Here Come the Hawks Here Come the Hawks b/w Here Come the Hawks (instrumental) (picture sleeve)
Ellen McIlwaine Wings of a Horse Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Eddie* Murray Montreal, Canada Blues Montreal, Canada Blues b/w Stepping High Dance
Ellen McIlwaine Weird of Hermiston Honky Tonk Angel
Country Mcdonald Joe* Jean Desprez War War War
Yukon* Nova Scotia Nova Scotia b/w Genius
Aarons And Ackley* Sailor Song ST
Ellen McIlwaine Lover's Lane Ellen McIlwaine
Ellen McIlwaine Born Under a Bad Sign Fear Itself
Zambonis* To Bleed Black and Gold (demo) To Bleed Black and Gold
Cal* Bostic May I Introducing...
Oscar* McLollie As Long As You Care at All So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All
Nelson* Riddle Barkerville British Columbia Suite
Ellen McIlwaine Ain't No Two Ways About It (It's Love) Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Zambonis* Boom Boom Boom To Bleed Black and Gold
Aarons And Ackley* You And I You And I
Tony McManus Donal Og - The Lea Rig The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions)
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Two Little Oaks On a Mountain Ukrainian Pops
Dave Gordon & Kay* I Love That Hockey Team I Love That Hockey Team b/w The Fiddler's Widow
Buddy Knox Rock Your Little Baby to Sleep ST
Joe* Glazer Solidarity Forever A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Jack Holland The Time Or the Place The Eyes of a Dreamer
Priscilla* Rollins Going Out of My Head Over You Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Matt* Lucas Massage Parlour Blues Matt Gets Blue
Sidewinders Flat Foot Hustlin' Flatfoot Hustlin'
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Take Twenty Love Serenade
Alpha Centauri You Shot Me Down ST
Ellen McIlwaine Nothing Left to be Desired Everybody Needs It
Happy Dolls Shake Your Booty Show Album No. 1
Ellen McIlwaine It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Honky Tonk Angel
Ellen McIlwaine Underground River Fear Itself
Cal* Bostic The Darkest Hour (Cal Bostic) Introducing...
Jonathan Edwards Evangelina Sailboat
Ellen McIlwaine Don't You Have any Love in Your Heart? Ellen McIlwaine
Zambonis* Leave Your Stink at the Rink To Bleed Black and Gold
Joe* Glazer We are Building a New Party A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Happy Dolls Funky Stuff Show Album No. 1
Mike* Ferro Soldier In The Rain Bridges b/w Soldier In The Rain
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Jakiv Came to Visit Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Zambonis* Let's Go Whalers To Bleed Black and Gold
Aarons And Ackley* Oh What a Good Time You And I
Sidewinders Gift to the Sun Flatfoot Hustlin'
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Green Rye Ukrainian Pops
Oscar* McLollie Love Will Get You ST
Cal* Bostic Let Me Love You Introducing...
Loni Gamble Could it be Love ST
Joe* Glazer A Douglas for Me A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Nelson* Riddle Valley of the Swans British Columbia Suite
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Hutsal Ksenia Ukrainian Pops
Matt* Lucas The Peepin' Tom Matt Gets Blue
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* A Hanging Apple Висить Ябко Ukrainian Pops
Nelson* Riddle Victoria British Columbia Suite
Priscilla* Rollins Sweet Inspiration Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Charmaines* The One For Me (You Are) Hypnotized b/w The One For Me (promo)
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Like Some One In Love And I Love Her
Ellen McIlwaine Up From the Skies Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Bluebird* Country Boy Blues Country Boy Blues b/w A Good Thing Lost
Ernie* Smith Bend Down Low Skareggae
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* You Belong to Me You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)
Buddy Knox Don't Make Me Cry ST
Ellen McIlwaine Crawling Kingsnake Fear Itself
Matt* Lucas New Orleans Woman Matt Gets Blue
Ellen McIlwaine Ode to Billy Joe Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Tommy Makem Vancouver Vancouver b/w Better Times

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

Greeley, Colorado, USA - Winnipeg, Manitoba - Colorado, USA

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

FEATURED

Ernie* Smith - Skareggae

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario

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

Shirley Granger - Amist the Black Eyes MINT BACK

You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)

Shirley Lewis Show Band

Granger, Shirley (Shirley Fay, Shirley Lewis)*

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