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
Eddie* Murray Montreal, Canada Blues Montreal, Canada Blues b/w Stepping High Dance
Jonathan Edwards Sailboat Sailboat
Zambonis* Mind Like a Playgroup To Bleed Black and Gold
Priscilla* Rollins Sweet Inspiration Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Country Mcdonald Joe* The Man From Athabaska War War War
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* A Cossack Beyond the Danube Ukrainian Pops
Ellen McIlwaine Jimmy Jean We the People
Ellen McIlwaine Wings of a Horse Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* Till You're Loving Me Again I'm a Song
Priscilla* Rollins Going Out of My Head Over You Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Matt* Lucas Massage Parlour Blues Matt Gets Blue
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* You Belong to Me You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Green Power Love Serenade
Nelson* Riddle Peace River British Columbia Suite
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Theme from Canada Love Serenade
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Are You Confused Love Serenade
Aarons And Ackley* Willie Boy ST
Priscilla* Rollins Cry Cry Baby Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Alpha Centauri Love Only You ST
Ellen McIlwaine It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ellen McIlwaine Wade in the Water Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Albert Jones* Thank Goodness The Facts of Life
Joe* Glazer A Douglas for Me A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Matt* Lucas Tomcat Blues Matt Gets Blue
Zambonis* Live Intro - Hockey Monkey To Bleed Black and Gold
Ellen McIlwaine Mossy Dream Fear Itself
Alpha Centauri One Night at a Time ST
Bluebird* Country Boy Blues Country Boy Blues b/w A Good Thing Lost
Jonathan Edwards Weapon of Prayer Sailboat
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra And I Love Her And I Love Her
Ellen McIlwaine Losing You Honky Tonk Angel
Matt* Lucas The Nuthouse Matt Gets Blue
Ellen McIlwaine Up From the Skies Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Nelson* Riddle Valley of the Swans British Columbia Suite
Sidewinders Time For Loving Flatfoot Hustlin'
Joe* Glazer This Land is Your Land A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Sidewinders A Voyage Flatfoot Hustlin'
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Lady's Dream And I Love Her
Jonathan Edwards Never Together Sailboat
Country Mcdonald Joe* The Munition Maker War War War
Ernie* Smith Everything Crash Skareggae
Ellen McIlwaine Sliding Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ursa Major* Back to the Land ST
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* Just a Few Words I'm a Song
Ernie* Smith Bend Down Skareggae
Nelson* Riddle Vancouver Nights British Columbia Suite
Priscilla* Rollins If You Should Lose Me Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ellen McIlwaine Toe Hold Honky Tonk Angel
Buddy Knox Storm Clouds ST (mono)
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Can't Eat Shirley Lewis Show Band
Ursa Major* Liberty and Justice ST
Rod Linnell with the Maritime All Stars Maple Sugar Two Step Maple Sugar Two Step // I Want a Girl
Loni Gamble Circles ST
Ellen McIlwaine Losing You Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Aarons And Ackley* Could Have Had Anything You And I
Jack Holland Waco The Eyes of a Dreamer
Happy Dolls Shake Your Booty Show Album No. 1
Ellen McIlwaine Ode to Billie Joe Honky Tonk Angel
Zambonis* To Bleed Black and Gold To Bleed Black and Gold
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Honky Tonk Woman Love Serenade
Matt* Lucas Drunkard's Dream Matt Gets Blue
Zambonis* Let's Go Whalers To Bleed Black and Gold
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Take Twenty Love Serenade
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Ill Wind And I Love Her
Priscilla* Rollins There Goes My Baby Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Aarons And Ackley* There Is A Lady ST
Nelson* Riddle Government House British Columbia Suite
Dils* Sound of the Rain (Le sond de la pluit) Made In Canada
Ellen McIlwaine Weird of Hermiston Honky Tonk Angel
David Amram Greasy Spoon Summer Nights, Winter Rain
David Amram Pull My Daisy Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Ernie* Smith Money Can't Buy Life Skareggae
Priscilla* Rollins I Know Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Your Seduced Me Ти Ж Мене Підманула Ukrainian Pops
Ellen McIlwaine Money Can't Save You Ellen McIlwaine
David Amram Deep South Evening Light Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Oscar* McLollie She's a Child Chilliwack Valley b/w She's a Child
Happy Dolls Sweet Gypsy Rose Show Album No. 1
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* I Will Go Into The Distant Mountains Ukrainian Pops
Oscar* McLollie So Pleasing Loving You So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All
Albert Jones* That's the Way You Lost My Love The Facts of Life
Ellen McIlwaine Billy Gene Fear Itself
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Stormy Weather Amist the Black Eyes
Alpha Centauri Love is a Curse ST
Zambonis* Haunted Hockey Rink To Bleed Black and Gold
Ursa Major* Sinner ST
Oscar* McLollie Girl of Mine ST
Jack Holland Get it Behind You Girl The Eyes of a Dreamer
Aarons And Ackley* Swanee Song ST
Albert Jones* Mother Nature The Facts of Life
Aarons And Ackley* Five O'Clock You And I
Ellen McIlwaine Born Under a Bad Sign Fear Itself
Albert Jones* Hussle Disco The Facts of Life
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Good Time Blues Shirley Lewis Show Band
Ellen McIlwaine Toe Hold Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ellen McIlwaine Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven (But Nobody Wants to Die) We the People
Cal* Bostic There You Are Introducing...
David Amram Song for Kenya Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Happy Dolls Pick Up the Pieces Show Album No. 1

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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