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
- Wilf Carter (artist)
- Tommy Hunter (artist)
- Orval Prophet (artist)
- William Harold Moon (builder)
1985
- Don Messer (artist)
- Hank Snow (artist)
1986
- Papa Joe Brown (artist)
1987
- Lucille Starr (artist)
1988
- Jack Feeney (builder)
1989
- Charlie Chamberlain (artist)
- Al Cherney (artist)
- King Ganam (artist)
- Dallas Harms (artist)
- Earl Heywood (artist)
- Marg Osburne (artist)
- Ian Tyson (artist)
- Mercey Brothers (artist)
- Maurice Bolyer (artist)
- Don Grashey (builder)
- Maurice Bolyer (builder)
1990
- Gordie Tapp (artist)
- Ron Sparling (builder)
1991
- Rhythm Pals (artist)
- A. Hugh Joseph (builder)
1992
- Carroll Baker (artist)
- Gordon Burnett (builder)
1993
- Ward Allen (artist)
- Stu Phillips (artist)
- Bob Nolan (artist)
- Stu Davis (artist)
- Ted Daigle (builder)
- Frank Jones (builder)
1994
- Dick Damron (artist)
- Hank Smith (builder)
1995
- Gene MacLellan (artist)
- Stan Klees (builder)
1996
- Myrna Lorrie (artist)
- Larry Delaney (builder)
1997
- Family Brown (artist)
- Sam Sniderman (builder)
1998
- Ray Griff (artist)
- Bill Anderson (builder)
1999
- Ronnie Prophet (artist)
- Walt Grealis (builder)
2000
- Colleen Peterson (artist)
- Leonard Rambeau (builder)
2001
- Gordon Lightfoot (artist)
- Gary Buck (builder)
2002
- Anne Murray (artist)
- Art Snider (builder)
- Bev Munro (broadcaster)
- D'Arcy Scott (broadcaster)
- Elmer Tippe (broadcaster)
2003
- Sylvia Tyson (artist)
- J. Edward Preston (builder)
- Fred King (broadcaster)
- Charlie Russell (broadcaster)
- Art Wallman (broadcaster)
2004
- The Good Brothers (artist)
- "Weird" Harold Kendall (broadcaster)
2005
- Gary Fjellgaard (artist)
- R. Harlan Smith (builder)
- Paul Kennedy (broadcaster)
2006
- Terry Carisse (artist)
- Brian Ahern (builder)
- Curley Gurlock (broadcaster)
2007
- John Allan Cameron (artist)
- Sheila Hamilton (builder)
- Cliff Dumas (broadcaster)
2008
- Prairie Oyster (artist)
- Brian Ferriman (builder)
- Wes Montgomery (broadcaster)
2009
- Buffy Sainte-Marie (artist)
- Barry Haugen (builder)
- John Murphy (broadcaster)
2010
- Willie P. Bennett (artist)
- Marie Bottrell (artist)
- Donna & LeRoy Anderson (artist)
- Eddie Eastman (artist)
- Don Harron (artist)
- Fred McKenna (artist)
- Wayne Rostad (artist)
- Joyce Smith (artist)
- Hal & Ginger Willis (artist)
- Ray St. Germain (artist)
- Tom Tompkins (builder)
2011
- Michelle Wright (artist)
- Bill Langstroth (builder)
2012
- Johnny Burke (artist)
- Ralph Murphy (builder)
2013
- Rita MacNeil (artist)
- Ed Harris (builder)
2014
- Wendell Ferguson (artist)
- Ron Sakamoto (builder)
2015
- Dianne Leigh (artist)
- Elizabeth "Ma" Henning (builder)