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
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Givin' Up the Man I Love Amist the Black Eyes
Nelson* Riddle Moving Ahead British Columbia Suite
Aarons And Ackley* Sailor Song ST
Priscilla* Rollins Magic Moment Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Matt Lucas* The Last Song Matt Gets Blue
Ernie* Smith Freedom To Behold Jah
Alpha Centauri Love is a Curse ST
Ellen McIlwaine Weird of Hermiston Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ursa Major* Silverspoon ST
Ellen McIlwaine Hang On to a Dream Everybody Needs It
Ursa Major* Stage Door Queen ST
Tony McManus Donal Og - The Lea Rig The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions)
Ellen McIlwaine Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune We the People
Tony McManus The Maids of Mitchelstown The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions)
Ellen McIlwaine I Don't Want to Play We the People
Sidewinders A Voyage Flatfoot Hustlin'
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Hutsal Ksenia Ukrainian Pops
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* King of the Cops I'm a Song
Rod Linnell with the Maritime All Stars Presque Isle Eighth Three Quarter Promenade // Presque Isle Eighth
Ernie* Smith Bend Down Low Skareggae
Ellen McIlwaine I Want Whacha Got (Boston Song) Everybody Needs It
Eddie* Murray Montreal, Canada Blues Montreal, Canada Blues b/w Stepping High Dance
Ellen McIlwaine For Suki Fear Itself
Ellen McIlwaine Keep On Everybody Needs It
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Country Feelin' Amist the Black Eyes
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Kolomayka Ukrainian Pops
Priscilla* Rollins Sweet Inspiration Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Green Power Love Serenade
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* You Belong to Me You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)
Happy Dolls Misty Blue Show Album No. 1
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Are You Confused Love Serenade
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Shake a Hand Amist the Black Eyes
Ellen McIlwaine Come Sit Down and Tell Me Everybody Needs It
Matt Lucas* I'm Movin' On The Old Man b/w I'm Movin' On
Zambonis* Hockey Marlee To Bleed Black and Gold
Buddy Knox Somebody Touched Me ST (mono)
Zambonis* Let's Go Whalers To Bleed Black and Gold
Happy Dolls Shake Your Booty Show Album No. 1
Nelson* Riddle Barkerville British Columbia Suite
Oscar* McLollie Chilliwack Valley Chilliwack Valley b/w She's a Child
Bluebird* Country Boy Blues Country Boy Blues b/w A Good Thing Lost
Joe* Glazer We Shall Not Be Moved A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Ellen McIlwaine Ain't No Two Ways About It (It's Love) Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Nelson* Riddle Peace River British Columbia Suite
Ellen McIlwaine The Last Good Man in My Life Ellen McIlwaine
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra It Only Takes a Moment And I Love Her
Hopeton* Lewis Think Positive Think Positive // Story Book Children
Albert Jones* You Just Can't Turn Me Loose The Facts of Life
Albert Jones* I Feel So Good The Facts of Life
Loni Gamble Nightime Kind of Love ST
Jack Holland You Can't Make a Dancer The Eyes of a Dreamer
Ellen McIlwaine Mossy Dream Fear Itself
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* O Moon Do Not Shine Ukrainian Pops
The Revelaires* You're So Wrong You're So Wrong b/w She Wears My Ring
Jonathan Edwards Weapon of Prayer Sailboat
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Handzya Ukrainian Pops
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* I'm a Song I'm a Song
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Green Rye Ukrainian Pops
Ellen McIlwaine Sliding We the People
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Hard Days Night And I Love Her
Cal* Bostic Somewhere My Love Introducing...
Matt Lucas* Leave the Light On Baby Matt Gets Blue
Aarons And Ackley* Could Have Had Anything You And I
Cal* Bostic Excessive Love (Cal Bostic) Introducing...
Buddy Knox Don't Make Me Cry ST
Ellen McIlwaine Farther Along We the People
Oscar* McLollie Love Will Get You ST
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Aarons And Ackley* Sleeping Gypsy ST
Priscilla* Rollins Cry Cry Baby Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Happy Dolls Pick Up the Pieces Show Album No. 1
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Love Serenade Love Serenade
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Boots Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* I Need You Amist the Black Eyes
Joe* Glazer It Could be a Wonderful World A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Albert Jones* You Stole My Love The Facts of Life
Priscilla* Rollins Letter to Mommy & Daddy Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Cal* Bostic The Darkest Hour (Cal Bostic) Introducing...
Ellen McIlwaine Say a Single Word Everybody Needs It
Nelson* Riddle Garibaldi Mountain British Columbia Suite
Aarons And Ackley* Lay Me Down ST
Sidewinders Can't You Feel the Fire Flatfoot Hustlin'
Ernie* Smith Everything Crash Skareggae
Buddy Knox Party Doll ST
Ellen McIlwaine Everybody Needs It Everybody Needs It
Ellen McIlwaine Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ellen McIlwaine Pinebo (My Story) Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Black Eyes (Ship of) Amist the Black Eyes
Ellen McIlwaine Losing You Honky Tonk Angel
The Revelaires* Cab Driver Great Pretender b/w Cab Driver
Albert Jones* You and Your Love The Facts of Life
Ellen McIlwaine Underground River Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ernie* Smith Bend Down Skareggae
David Amram Little Momma Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Charmaines* (You Are) Hypnotized (You Are) Hypnotized b/w The One For Me (promo)
Oscar* McLollie For the Good Times ST
Country Mcdonald Joe* War Widow War War War
Ellen McIlwaine Underground River We the People
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Verkhovyna Our Liitle World Ukrainian Pops
Exponians Wicked Woman Wicked Woman My Peaceful World

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

Eddie* Murray - Montreal, Canada Blues b/w Stepping High Dance

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)

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It (3)

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