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70-622: The government eventually agreed to purchase the "cursed" ship from its captain, and subsequently renamed it and moved it out of Atlantic Canada , selling it to a fishing corporation on the Pacific Coast where it remains in service today as the Freeport . In 1969, Saint John Shipbuilding built three identical 126-tonne fishing trawlers named the Lady Audette II , the Marc Guylaine II, and

140-548: A 38-city tour, Connors received the National Achievement Award at the annual SOCAN Awards held in Toronto. In 2009, Connors was the recipient of the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual SOCAN Awards in Toronto. Connors' habit of stomping the heel of his left boot to keep rhythm earned him the nickname "that stompin' guy", or "Stomper". It wasn't until Canada's 100th birthday , July 1, 1967 , that

210-505: A birthmark removed. Later, Isabel and Tom moved in with her new boyfriend Terrence Messer at the corner of Clarence and Erin Streets. While they did not marry, the family would take on his surname. Terrence and Isabel did pretend to be married to find a place to live, due to the moral standards of the time. The family was quite poor, and Terrence was a neglectful stepfather, who spent most of the family's money on wine. When they missed paying rent,

280-497: A decision would be reached within a few weeks. After 10 weeks, another email was then sent to the newly appointed programming VP, and a prompt reply came back that said that the broadcaster was moving away from music and variety programming and that the Connors special did not fit with its strategy. Edwards said that he received another letter from the CBC that reinforced its lack of interest in

350-513: A dinner in Ottawa in October 2002. Buckingham Palace smoothed the way by likening Mr. Connors's hat to a religious headdress such as a nun's habit or a Sikh's turban. However, Connors did go hatless during his nationally-televised wedding on CBC-TV to Lena Welsh. As the 1970s progressed, he retired to his farm at Ballinafad, near Erin, Ontario , to protest the lack of support given to Canadian stories by

420-567: A furniture store, hidden in a case on top of a shelf and, after some haggling, purchased it for $ 80 (he had $ 90 with him). The guitar was used to audition in 1964 at the Maple Leaf Hotel in Timmins, as well as for writing Bud the Spud four years later. Although retired in 1972, it remained in his possession. It has subsequently been refurbished, a birthday gift from his wife Lena. The serial number inside

490-547: A joke about the quality of the local lumber) before calling for a new one. It was reported that when asked about his "stompin' board", Connors replied, "it's just a stage I'm going through". Connors periodically auctioned off his "stompin' boards" for charity, with one board selling for $ 15,000 in July 2011. Connors's favourite guitar was a Gibson Southern Jumbo acoustic that he purchased in 1956 while on his way through Ohio to Nashville, Tennessee , and Mexico. He discovered it in

560-561: A letter to the board of directors. Gentlemen: I am returning herewith the six Juno awards that I once felt honoured to have received and which, I am no longer proud to have in my possession. As far as I am concerned you can give them to the border jumpers who didn't receive an award this year and maybe you can have them presented by Charley Pride . I feel that the Junos should be for people who are living in Canada, whose main base of business operations

630-566: A moratorium of cod fishing in 1992. This affected the region significantly and caused the loss of between 30,000 and 50,000 jobs in the region which was the largest single layoff in Canadian history. Additionally the region is host to parts of Canada's eastern boreal forests which were historically used for timber production and boat production. Labrador hosts the second largest hydroelectric system in Canada at Churchill Falls where it produces 35,000 GWh of power each year. Elsewhere in

700-967: A physical Atlantic coast on the Gulf of St. Lawrence , it is generally not considered an Atlantic Province; instead, it is classified as part of Central Canada , along with Ontario . Atlantic and Central Canada together are also known as Eastern Canada . Atlantic Canada includes a section of the Appalachian Mountains known as the Appalachian Uplands . In each Atlantic province, Upland regions have been divided into three highland areas. The mountain range results in coastal regions being fjorded . Some areas contain glaciofluvial deposits . Atlantic Canada's primary industries are natural resource extraction and power generation including fishing , hydroelectricity , wind power, forestry , oil, and mining . The Atlantic provinces contribute

770-666: A rap label, I'll go and do it." So he was a bit of a pioneer with classical music. In the book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda , Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian general who led the UNAMIR peacekeeping force in Rwanda during that country's 1994 genocide reported that he played a recording of Connors's song "The Blue Berets" (about United Nations peacekeeping forces) to keep up his troops' morale while their headquarters

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840-475: A series running on CBC Television in which he met and exchanged with folks from all across Canada. Stompin' Tom's Canada was co-produced with the CBC, and consisted of 26 half-hour episodes. The song that Connors wrote in the least time was "Maritime Waltz", which was completed in 12 minutes. His character was rough but genuine. As the National Post noted: [T]hat persona wasn't shtick . Stompin' Tom

910-549: A significant part of Canada's fish production, with many coastal communities primarily dependent on fisheries. Over half of all ocean related jobs in Canada are found in Atlantic Canada with 75% of the ocean economy centered in its provinces. The access point for many of such fisheries being the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Atlantic continental shelf . Due to the collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery Canada imposed

980-415: A strong tempo for his guitar playing—especially in the noisy bars and beer joints where he frequently performed. After numerous complaints about damaged stage floors, Connors began to carry a piece of plywood that he stomped even more vigorously than before. The "stompin ' " board became one of his trademarks. After stomping a hole in the wood, he would pick it up and show it to the audience (accompanied by

1050-616: A two-bedroom apartment. Around this time Isabel got pregnant again by Tom's father when he briefly returned, and Tom got a taste of hitchhiking when he and Isabel went to visit relatives in Tusket Falls, Nova Scotia . This trip was the first time he saw his mother steal to feed them, when she stole food from a Chinese restaurant in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia . When they returned to Saint John, they moved in with friends of Isabel and she gave birth to Tom's sister Marie, who had to stay in hospital to have

1120-473: A week's worth of shows in Canada in 2004, Connors was one of the guests of honour, leading the Toronto audience in a rendition of "The Hockey Song"; this was one of the few times Connors performed on American television. Another Canadian-taped installment of Late Night featured a segment in which Triumph the Insult Comic Dog visited Quebec ; a parody of Connors' "Canada Day, Up Canada Way" is heard during

1190-728: Is Back to Assist Canadian Talent and his comeback album, Fiddle and Songs in 1988. A-C-T also re-released Connors's back catalogue on cassette tapes only. All of his subsequent releases (and re-releases) have been through Capitol Records / EMI . Most of this work is now available on Compact Disc. In recent years, many of his album releases have included at least one re-recording of one of his earlier songs. Connors founded three record labels, which promoted not just his own work, but that of other Canadian artists: Among artists who were featured on these labels were Liona Boyd , Rita MacNeil , The Canadian Brass , Dixie Flyers , Charlie Panigoniak , among others. Liona Boyd recalled in 2013 about

1260-589: Is also mined in the Atlantic provinces. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text by John Douglas Belshaw available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text by Rainer Baehre available under the CC BY 3.0 license. 47°N 62°W  /  47°N 62°W  / 47; -62 Stompin%27 Tom Connors Charles Thomas " Stompin' Tom " Connors , OC (February 9, 1936 – March 6, 2013)

1330-526: Is in Canada, who are working toward the recognition of Canadian talent in this country and who are trying to further the export of such talent from this country to the world with a view to proudly showing off what this country can contribute to the world market. Until the academy appears to comply more closely with aspirations of this kind, I will no longer stand for any nominations, nor will I accept any award given. Yours very truly, Stompin' Tom Connors He remained in retirement for 12 years, only returning to

1400-559: Is rarely heard outside Canada, with the possible exception of his anthemic " The Hockey Song " which has been recorded by many artists and played regularly within the arenas of the National Hockey League. It has been suggested that Connors refused to allow foreign release of his material, although a more likely reason is that the very Canadian-specific subject matter of many of his folk songs has resulted in limited demand in foreign markets. When Late Night with Conan O'Brien taped

1470-460: Is uncertain, but an archaeological site on the northern tip of Newfoundland at L'Anse aux Meadows has been identified as a good candidate. It was a modest Viking settlement and is the oldest confirmed presence of Europeans in North America. The Vikings would make brief excursions to North America for the next 200 years, though further attempts at colonization were thwarted. The site produced

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1540-693: The Great Expulsion or Le Grand Dérangement. Following the Seven Years War and the Treaty of Paris of 1763, Newfoundland's governor, Admiral Hugh Palliser , consolidated British control by carrying out the first systematic hydrographic charting of the island, including the Bay of Islands and Humber Arm , much of it by the Royal Naval officer James Cook . After the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1764 some of

1610-598: The Kanata Fishing Company in Prince Rupert, British Columbia . Écoutez mes amis / Entendez-vous le vent Qui hurle dans la nuit / Que c'en est énervant Écoutez mes amis / Ce chalutier qui crie Et la mer qui ricane / C'est le Lady Dorianne For several years, the legend of the "cursed" ships became a regular report in the media. In 1973, Stompin' Tom Connors wrote The Curse of the Marc Guylain , referring to

1680-570: The Lady Dorianne , which was theorised to be sitting 240 feet beneath sea level, as the only known shipwreck in the area. The film is scheduled for completion in late 2009. Atlantic Canada Atlantic Canada , also called the Atlantic provinces ( French : provinces de l'Atlantique ), is the region of Eastern Canada comprising four provinces: New Brunswick , Newfoundland and Labrador , Nova Scotia , and Prince Edward Island . As of 2021,

1750-835: The Lady Dorianne II . The original engineering records for the Dorianne and Audette were obtained by the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston for their records-collection. The Marc Guylaine was sold to Gélas Haché, and the Lady Audette was sold to A. Chaisson. On November 23, 1970, Lady Dorianne departed from Havre-Aubert en route to Shippagan following a storm. It was alternatively reported as having five or six men aboard, including captain Sylvio Noël, when it disappeared off

1820-470: The Wabanaki Confederacy , important allies to New France. Competition for control of the island of Newfoundland and its waters contributed to major ongoing conflicts and occasional wars between France and Britain. The first major agreement between the two powers over access to this coastline came with the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713, giving Britain governance over the entire island and establishing

1890-583: The epidemic typhus outbreak. The first premier of Newfoundland , Joey Smallwood , coined the term "Atlantic Canada" when the Dominion of Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949. He believed that it would have been presumptuous for Newfoundland to assume that it could include itself within the existing term " Maritime provinces ," which was used to describe the cultural similarities shared by New Brunswick , Prince Edward Island , and Nova Scotia . The other provinces of Atlantic Canada entered Confederation during

1960-523: The 19th century with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia being founding members of the Dominion of Canada in 1867, and later Prince Edward Island joined in 1873. Atlantic Canada is characterized by its rugged coastlines, gravel beaches, rugged mountains , and dense forests. Bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, and Quebec to the west. The region shares two international borders one with

2030-516: The Acadians returned and settled in the area that would become New Brunswick. The effect of this migration can still be seen today as the province of New Brunswick is the only officially bilingual province in Canada with over a quarter of residents speaking French at home. After the conclusion of the American Revolution with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 many loyalists from

2100-830: The Audette and Dorianne sinkings. In 1973, the Canadian Coast Guard released its report entitled In the Matter of a Formal Investigation Into the Circumstances Attending the Loss of the M.F.V. "Lady Dorianne II" and the M.F.V. "Lady Audette II" in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Nov. 23, 1970, and Apr. 22, 1971, Resp. Haché, the captain of the Marc Guylaine , subsequently found he could not hire any local fishermen to man his ship, and petitioned

2170-605: The British war effort against the United States. In the last half of the 19th century the region's population grew due to the immigration from Ireland due to the great potato famine . Saint John and Halifax , both port cities, particularly received a significant influx of Irish immigrants within the region, with Saint John's quarantine station on Partridge Island being the second-busiest in British North America during

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2240-622: The Canadian musical establishment, and his style was quite different from other Canadian icons such as Leonard Cohen or Gordon Lightfoot . He could, however, be characterized as a passionist poet within Canadian culture, similar to Milton Acorn and Stan Rogers . As the National Post characterized him: He sang of a nation without politics, to its proud history, and to its better angels. His songs remind us that Canada matters—that we've built something amazing here, and must not take it for granted. Typically writing about Canadian lore and history, some of Connors' better-known songs include " Bud

2310-662: The Rebel Records bluegrass label, under the name "Tom Connors". These two albums were subsequently re-released on Dominion Records under the Stompin' Tom moniker and had to be totally re-recorded due to a dispute with Rebel Records owner John Irvine. Most of Connors's well-known albums were released on Dominion Records (1969–70), and after 1971 on the Boot Records label that he co-founded with Jury Krytiuk and Mark Altman. His releases on Dominion (and all subsequent releases) were done under

2380-491: The Spud ", " Big Joe Mufferaw ", " The Black Donnellys ", " The Martin Hartwell Story ", " Reesor Crossing Tragedy ", " Sudbury Saturday Night ", and " The Hockey Song ". This last, often incorrectly called "The Good Old Hockey Game," is frequently played over sound systems at National Hockey League (NHL) games. Throughout the years, Connors never lost touch with Gaëtan Lepine, the bartender he befriended in Timmins; in fact,

2450-426: The United States and its State of Maine and another off the coast of Newfoundland with France and its overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon . The region's maritime environment has profoundly influenced the region's climate, culture, and economy. The area encompasses a mix of urban centers like Halifax and St. John's and rural communities that rely on fishing, and tourism. Although Quebec has

2520-497: The United States being nominated for Junos in Canada. Connors, who referred to these particular artists as "turncoat Canadians", felt that in view of the fact that they had chosen to live and work in the U.S., it was only fair that they competed with Americans for Grammy Awards, and left the Juno competition to those who lived and conducted business in Canada. His protest caught national attention when he sent back his six Junos accompanied by

2590-430: The United States settled in the region. This influx of immigrants caused the partition of Nova Scotia creating New Brunswick. Additionally these immigrants changed the culture and character of the region which had historically been French towards more British styled communities. It also marked one of the first large waves of migration to the area that established a predominantly Anglo-Canadian population. Some of

2660-467: The bartender to put the cap back on the bottle and he'd head for the Sally Ann , but the bartender, Gaëtan Lepine, accepted the 30 cents and offered him a second beer if he would open his guitar case and play a few songs. These few songs turned into a 14-month run at the hotel, a weekly spot on CKGB in Timmins, eight 45-RPM recordings, and the end of the beginning for Tom Connors. Connors was never part of

2730-482: The coast of Miscou Island . Everybody aboard was presumed killed, although the ship and bodies were never found. In December, the Ministry of Transportation was urged to not give up its search for the ship, since the previous sinkings of two identical ships were still unexplained and it was hoped that the wreckage might provide a clue to its fate. It was never found, although searches turned up an uninflated life raft from

2800-555: The country whose support had rescued him from a difficult pre-showbusiness life. Connors had a son, Taw Connors. He also had another son, Tom Jr. Connors was a heavy smoker—estimated to consume 100 cigarettes a day —and an equally heavy drinker. On tour, he had to drive the lead truck, and could never be the last person to go to bed, and that often meant that his fellow musicians had to keep up with his pace. Connors always wore his black Stetson in public, and refused to remove it for any reason, even when meeting Queen Elizabeth II at

2870-403: The family was evicted and moved to a house on St. Patrick Street. Marie finally came home from the hospital then, but she died when Tom was four, following more surgery to remove another birthmark. To make ends meet, Isabel got a job scrubbing floors and Terrence did odd jobs. The family was evicted again after a spat with the landlord when Tom started a fire in their apartment. Their next home

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2940-529: The first French Shore , giving France and its migratory fishery almost exclusive access to a substantial stretch of the island's coastline. Despite reoccurring wars and conflicts the Britain acquiesced to France's demands for continuing access to this fishery. Between 1755 and 1764 during the Seven Years' War the British forcibly removed thousands of Acadians from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in an event known as

3010-526: The first evidence of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact of Europeans with the Americas outside of Greenland . Acadia , a colony of New France , was established in areas of present-day Atlantic Canada in 1604, under the leadership of Samuel de Champlain and Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons . The French would form alliances with many indigenous groups within Atlantic Canada, including the Mi'kmaq of Acadia, who joined

3080-476: The guitar reads 2222 in red stamped numbers and the actual age of the guitar is still unknown. Connors released music on seven different labels. His earliest foray into recording was on the CKGB Timmins radio station label. These 45 RPM singles were pressed by Quality Records in Toronto, and distributed (and paid for) primarily by Tom. His first two albums (and two subsequent 45 RPM singles) were released on

3150-637: The historical territories of the Mi'kmaq , Naskapi , Beothuk and Nunatsiavut peoples. The people of Nunatsiavut are the Labrador Inuit (Labradormiut), who are descended from the Thule people . Leif Erikson and other members of his family began exploring the North American coast in 986 CE. Leif landed in three places, and in the third established a small settlement called Vinland. The location of Vinland

3220-499: The landmass of the four Atlantic provinces was approximately 488,000 km (188,000 sq mi), and had a population of over 2.4 million people. The term Atlantic Canada was popularized following the admission of Newfoundland as a Canadian province in 1949. The province of Newfoundland and Labrador is not included in the Maritimes , another significant regional term, but is included in Atlantic Canada. The Atlantic Provinces are

3290-727: The last is played at various games throughout the National Hockey League , including at every Toronto Maple Leafs home game. In 2018, the song was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in a ceremony at a Leafs game. Charles Thomas Connors was born on February 9, 1936, at the General Hospital in Saint John, New Brunswick , to Isabel Connors and Thomas Joseph Sullivan. Isabel's family were Irish Protestants , and his maternal grandfather, John Connors,

3360-447: The mid-1970s Connors wrote and recorded The Consumer , an ode to bill-paying that became the theme song for the popular Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) consumer affairs program Marketplace . For the first few seasons, Connors appeared in the program's opening credits, before "The Consumer" was replaced as the theme—initially by an instrumental background version and ultimately by a different piece of music. In 1974 Connors had

3430-584: The name "Stompin" Tom Connors was first used, when Boyd MacDonald, a waiter at the King George Tavern in Peterborough , Ontario, introduced Connors on stage. Based on an enthused audience reaction to it, Connors had it officially registered in Ontario as Stompin' Tom Ltd. the following week. Various stories have circulated about the origin of the foot stomping, but it's generally accepted that he did this to keep

3500-620: The name "Stompin' Tom Connors". Most of the Rebel and Dominion albums would be reissued (and in some cases, re-recorded) under the Boot label, and would represent the bulk of his recorded material. It was released on 33 1 ⁄ 3 RPM record albums, 45 RPM record singles, 8-tracks , and cassette tapes . After his retreat from the music business in the late 1970s, he started the A-C-T (Assisting Canadian Talent) label in 1986, and released two albums: Stompin' Tom

3570-578: The new settlers brought with them Black slaves. Also 3,000 Black loyalists who were slaves during the war and who sided with the British were given freedom and evacuated with other Loyalists from New York to Nova Scotia. Most of the free Blacks settled at Birchtown , the most prominent Black township in North America at the time. The War of 1812 significantly impacted the provinces of Atlantic Canada where they played crucial roles in naval operations, privateering, and as strategic support bases for

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3640-451: The next 13 years of his life as he travelled among various part-time jobs while writing songs on his guitar, singing for his supper. He worked in mines and rode in boxcars, and in the coldest part of winter he welcomed vagrancy arrests for the warm place to sleep. At his last stop in Timmins , Ontario, he found himself a nickel short of a 35-cent beer at the city's Maple Leaf Hotel. Connors told

3710-675: The policies of the Federal government, particularly the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). He also boycotted the Juno Awards in protest of the qualification guidelines set by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) for possible nominees who were being consistently nominated and awarded outside of their musical genre. He strongly opposed artists who conducted most of their business in

3780-422: The provincial Ministry of Fisheries to offset his financial losses incurred. The resulting battle took a year to wind its way through bureaucracy, as civil servants ruled that Marc Guylaine was perfectly seaworthy. In May 1972, at the urging of the local population to consider Haché an "innocent victim", the Ministry agreed to purchase the boat from him. Rather than scrap the ship, the ministry simply renamed

3850-439: The region wind power and hydrogen generation have begun to make a large impact on the energy landscape including exporting energy to Canada and hydrogen overseas. The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is the official agency responsible for creating economic opportunities within Atlantic Canada. Nova Scotia has historically been an exporter of gypsum and now produces over 60% of the gypsum in Canada. Salt and iron

3920-402: The segment. According to Connors' promoter, Brian Edwards, the CBC had expressed interest for Connors to do a music special since 1990. Connors shot and edited a live concert presentation at Hamilton Place at a cost of over $ 200,000 of his own money in September 2005. Edwards said that a copy was presented to the CBC's head of TV variety and that he received a reply the next day telling him that

3990-418: The ship. On April 23, 1971, the Lady Audette radioed the trawler Apollo III , addressing its captain Roméo Michon: "Roméo, come quickly to us, we are sinking." The Lady Audette is believed to have inexplicably sunk near the Rochers aux Oiseaux off Magdalen Islands , and could not be found. Three men drowned but, unlike the sinking of her sister ship, there were also four or five survivors. Two years later,

4060-402: The studio in 1986 to produce a new album to promote Canadian artists. That year, Tim Vesely and Dave Bidini of Rheostatics crashed his 50th birthday party and published an article about it in a Toronto newspaper, initiating a resurgence of public and record label interest in his work which resulted in the release in 1988 of Fiddle and Song , his first new album since 1977. Connors' music

4130-414: The subject of a song by Connors, who is widely renowned for singing about both well-known and little-known episodes in the country's past. Connors married Lena Welsh on November 2, 1973. The ceremony was broadcast live on Elwood Glover's Luncheon Date on CBC Television . During an interview on the show, he said they had chosen to get married on television to share this happy moment with his fans across

4200-411: The three sister ships as "three floating coffins on the sea". Calixte Duguay, a French Acadian songwriter, and performer also wrote the song "La Complainte du Lady Dorianne" on the same subject. The Lady Dorianne was also the subject of a song entitled The Tempest in 2005. In 2008, Lighthouse Productions contracted filmmaker Paul-Émile d'Entremont to film a documentary seeking the wreckage of

4270-475: The time Connors signed Boyd to Boot for her first record, 1974's The Guitar , and two more: It was Tom's vision obviously. And as I understood it, he wasn't really a fan of classical music but he had heard Canada had no classical label, which was absolutely true. So bless him, he went and decided he'd be the first one. And he signed myself and the Canadian Brass . It's like me deciding, "Well listen, maybe I don't know much about rap , but hey Canada's doesn't have

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4340-412: The two wrote many songs together. These songs are featured in 250 Songs by Stompin' Tom: Including All the Words and Chords . In 1968, he composed and sang a radio jingle for a Sudbury-area tire store, Duhamel & Dewar, in exchange for a set of winter tires: "When your tires are old and worn and you think they should be newer, drive on down to the Tire Town and see Duhamel and Dewar." During

4410-555: The vessel to Jean Marc IV and re-sold it within the year. It was renamed the F/V Freeport in 1974, and registered in Vancouver on the Pacific coast three years later. In 1992, it was one of two Pacific vessels to cooperate with the Simon Fraser University research study "Decision Dynamics at Sea: An Application of Foraging Theory to the Study of Fishing Effort". In 2005, it was cited by Sitka, Alaska authorities for failing to have an Automatic Identification System aboard. It remains in use today, registered through 2009, by

4480-438: The wreckage was discovered. In May 1971, an anxious Acadian fishing population demanded a public hearing into the safety of the Marc Guylaine , and 400 people met at the Ste-Marie-St-Raphaël community centre where an "action group" was commissioned to study the issue. Ultimately the last of the sister ships was found to be unseaworthy. Federal official Bernard M. Deschênes was appointed as Commission Counsel to study both

4550-412: Was a Canadian country and folk singer-songwriter. Focusing his career exclusively on his native Canada, he is credited with writing more than 300 songs and has released four dozen albums, with total sales of nearly four million copies. Connors' songs have become part of the Canadian cultural landscape. Among his best-known songs are " Sudbury Saturday Night ", " Bud the Spud " and " The Hockey Song ";

4620-475: Was a basement apartment on King Street. Connors spent a short time living with his mother in a low-security women's penitentiary before he was seized by Children's Aid Society and later adopted by Cora and Russell Aylward in Skinners Pond , Prince Edward Island. At 13 he ran away from his adoptive family to hitchhike across Canada. He got his first guitar at 14, and at 15 he wrote his first song called "Reversing Falls Darling". His hitchhiking journey consumed

4690-403: Was a sea captain from Boston , Massachusetts, who had died before Charles was born. His father was a Catholic of Irish ancestry, and "may have been Métis or ... Micmac ." Isabel Connors and Thomas Joseph Sullivan did not marry until 30 years later, as Sullivan's family were devout Catholics and did not want him marrying a Protestant; they later divorced. Sullivan's mother gave him $ 10, and he

4760-427: Was one of the great Canadian story-tellers, and a uniquely collegial one as well. The proper venue for a Gordon Lightfoot performance is a concert hall , where the audience connects silently and contemplatively. The proper venue for Mr. Connors was a smoky bar room where people connected by slamming their beer mugs together, hopefully obliterating whatever differences existed between them. In 1999, after completing

4830-423: Was told to leave home. Connors was also a cousin of New Brunswick fiddling sensation, Ned Landry. Connors' first home was on St. Patrick Street, in the "poorest and most rundown part of Saint John". He lived there with his mother, his maternal grandmother Lucy Scribner, and his maternal stepgrandfather Joe Scribner When Connors was three, Lucy and Joe died within weeks of each other. This forced Isabel to move to

4900-429: Was under bombardment. The Les Claypool Frog Brigade mentions Connors in the song "Long in the Tooth" on the album Purple Onion , while Corb Lund references him in the song "Long Gone to Saskatchewan" and Dean Brody references him in the song " Canadian Girls ". Tim Hus also wrote a song titled "Man with the Black Hat" about Connors. The following is a list of events in the history of Canada which have been

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