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Vocal talent-Burton Cummings, for sure. All round musical talent-Rush. Not my favorite ban, but undeniable musical ability in Peart's drumming, Lifesons guitar and Geddy Lee is awesome on the bass.
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Ernie Combs -- Mr. Dress Up!
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Steve Nash-Jim Carrey-Chris Jericho
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John Garand - inventor of the M1 rifle, the finest battle instrument ever devised.
The entire Red/Green crew.
Bobby Orr, Gordy Howe, Wayne Gretsky, and Ivan Cournoyer.
Terri Clark, a singer from Medicine Hat, smoking' hot and featured in the Winchester ammo ads.
Keep your gun-hand ready and your eyes peeled.
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In no particular order my FAVOURITE all time Canadians!: Bill Marion, Gerry Ouelette George Marsh, Rudy Schultz, Herman Webber, John Primrose, Susan Natrass, Barney Hartman, Jim and Gil Boa, Paul Reibin, Bob Pitcairn, Glenn Ellert,and a couple of the Todd family...... Cat
scopes are cool, but slings 'n' irons RULE!
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Have Dog
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In no particular order my FAVOURITE all time Canadians!: Bill Marion, Gerry Ouelette George Marsh, Rudy Schultz, Herman Webber, John Primrose, Susan Natrass, Barney Hartman, Jim and Gil Boa, Paul Reibin, Bob Pitcairn, Glenn Ellert,and a couple of the Todd family...... Cat Paul Reibin and Bob Pitcairn are two excellent chaps I know very well having shot many matches with. I'm not familiar with the others you mention...
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Mostly Olympic team members, one set a World record with a borrowed gun in 1956- 600/60X, another was a skeet shooter with World records, factory C.I.L. shooter, another is a past North American ( World) silhouette champion, two others were Canadian team members and coaches, all were national champs at one time or another, and all were champions when i was growing up and learning to shoot Know/knew most them , some very well. Paul won big at Cannought last year at the Nats, not bad for someone past 80, eh! he is an icon in the Cnad9an shooting World, and when he is gone we will certainly be diminished! Cat
scopes are cool, but slings 'n' irons RULE!
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SHANIA ! [and Ian Tyson for his longevity]
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If I were smart enough, which apparently I'm not
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I'm going to enter the contest, and nominate Sir William Van Horne. Building that railway took a lot of talent. It would have been built at some time by someone else, but where would Canada have been without it?
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Have you guys ever heard Gordon Lightfoots song, Canadian railroad trilogy? One of my alltime favourites!
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It's his crowning glory in my eyes. (Lightfoots, that is.)
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Could you tell the story Brother Keith? I understand Lightfoot was commissioned to write a song about the rail.
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Don't know the history, but Google and Wikepedia are your friends.
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From Wikepedia:
This song was commissioned by the CBC for a special broadcast on January 1, 1967, to start Canada's Centennial year. It appeared on Lightfoot's The Way I Feel album later in the same year along with the song "Crossroads," a shorter song of similar theme. The structure of the song, with a slow tempo section in the middle and faster paced sections at the beginning and end, was patterned more or less opposite to Gibson and Camp's "Civil War Trilogy" (famously recorded by The Limeliters on the 1963 live album Our Men In San Francisco). In the first section, the song picks up speed like a locomotive building up a head of steam.
While Lightfoot's song echoes the optimism of the railroad age, it also chronicles the cost in sweat and blood of building "an iron road runnin' from the sea to the sea." The slow middle section of the song is especially poignant, vividly describing the efforts and sorrows of the nameless and forgotten navvies whose manual labour actually built the railway.
Session personnel for the 1967 recording were: Gordon Lightfoot (12-string), Red Shea (Lead acoustic guitar), John Stockfish (Fender Bass), and Charlie McCoy (Harmonica).
Lightfoot re-recorded the track on his 1975 compilation album, Gord's Gold, with full orchestration (arranged by Lee Holdridge). A live version also appears on two of his live albums, first on his 1969 album Sunday Concert and again on the 2012 release "All Live", which consists of songs recorded during his live concerts at Toronto's Massey Hall during the period from 1998 to 2001.
According to Lightfoot, Pierre Berton said to him, "You know, Gord, you said as much in that song as I said in my book." Berton was referring to his two books about the building of the railway across Canada, The National Dream and The Last Spike.
In 2001, Gordon Lightfoot's "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" was honoured as one of the Canadian MasterWorks by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada.
The song has been covered by John Mellencamp and George Hamilton IV, among others. James Keelaghan performed the song on the Lightfoot tribute album, Beautiful. In the summer of 2004, the song was performed by that year's Canadian Idol Top 6.
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Red Shea, who was the lead gitarist for Lightfoot for many years also played for Tommy Hunter, a man with little talent. Shea was an amazing guitarist and got a good leg up on "Let's Go" a teen music show in the 60's. He was in Toronto at the time. I loved his guitar playing.
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Now now Tommy Hunter was talented. My Dad always said Tommy could sorta sing
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I used to laugh when Red Shea carried Tommy's guitar out on stage for him at the end of the show. It should have been the other way around. Tommy was at best a 6 chord man. Red Shea could make a guitar talk. Saying Hunter was sorta talented is like saying Al Cherney kinda drank too much.
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Actor/director Paul Gross Singer/musician Ian Tyson
Writer would hafta be Guy Vanderhaghie (spelled wrong I'm sure)
Athlete would be Sandra Schmerler Politician is Dief
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