Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame

The Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame honours Canadian country music artists, builders or broadcasters, living or deceased. The artifact collection includes extensive biographical information on the inductees. It is located in downtown Merritt, British Columbia at 2025 Quilchena Avenue. The facility is open year-round for custom tours, and is open to the public on seasonally adjusted hours. The initiative is governed by a not-for-profit society (the Canadian Country Music Heritage Society).

In 2009, Cantos Music Foundation (now the National Music Centre) in Calgary, Alberta, became the owner of the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame's artifact collection after a transfer of ownership from Deb Buck, wife of deceased Hall of Fame member Gary Buck. The plaques of the inductees reside in the Hall of Honour at the Hall of Fame (in Merritt). For several years the Hall of Fame was based in a log building on the Calgary Stampede grounds.

In 1993, Canadian singer-songwriter Stompin' Tom Connors declined an induction into the Hall of Fame, as part of his ongoing campaign against the Americanization of Canadian music.[1]

Inductees

1984

1985

1986

  • Papa Joe Brown (artist)

1987

1988

  • Jack Feeney (builder)

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

  • Anne Murray (artist)
  • Art Snider (builder)
  • Bev Munro (broadcaster)
  • D'Arcy Scott (broadcaster)
  • Elmer Tippe (broadcaster)

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

  • Wendell Ferguson (artist)
  • Ron Sakamoto (builder)

2015

2016

2017

2018

See also

References
  1. "CBC Radio - Rewind". CBC.
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