The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame (French: Panthéon des Auteurs et Compositeurs Canadiens) is a Canadian non-profit organisation, founded in 1998, that honours the best [[songwriters}} of Canada. A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

Inductees

2003

• Alfred Bryan
• Félix Leclerc
• Mary Travers (La Bolduc)
• Hank Snow
• Gordon Lightfoot

2005 Alfred Bryan (September 15, 1871 _ April 1, 1958) was a United States songwriter. ... 1999 Canada Post stamp Félix Leclerc (August 2, 1914-August 8, 1988) was a Québécois folk singer, poet, writer, actor and political activist. ... Mary Rose-Anna Travers, born June 4, 1894 in Newport in the Gaspé region of Quebec, Canada – died February 21, 1941, was a Quebecois singer best known as La Bolduc. ... Clarence Eugene Snow (May 9, 1914 – December 20, 1999), better known as Hank Snow, was a Hall of Fame country music singer and songwriter. ... Gordon Lightfoot, Gords Gold Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, CC, O.Ont, LL.D (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian folk singer, composer, lyricist and poet. ...

• Shelton Brooks
• Bob Nolan
• Serge Deyglun
• Raymond Lévesque
• Claude Léveillée
• Burton Cummings
• Randy Bachman

2006 Shelton Brooks Shelton Brooks (May 4, 1886 - September 6, 1975) was a popular music composer who wrote some of the biggest hits of the first third of the 20th century. ... Bob Nolan is an early 20th century country-western songwriter and performer who composed the memorable hits Tumblin Tumbleweeds and Cool Water. ... Burton Cummings Burton Cummings (born December 31, 1947) is a Canadian musician and songwriter. ... Randoph Charles Bachman, OM (born September 27, 1943) was lead guitarist and songwriter of the 1970s rock band, The Guess Who, and later formed the famous hard rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive with his brothers Robbie Bachman, drums, Tim Bachman, rhythm guitar and friend Fred Turner on bass and lead...

• William Eckstein
• Lionel Daunais
• Carmen Lombardo
• Leonard Cohen
• Gilles Vigneault

Carmen Lombardo (July 16, 1903 - April 17, 1971) was the younger brother of bandleader Guy Lombardo. ... Leonard Norman Cohen, CC (born September 21, 1934 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter. ... Gilles Vigneault (born 27 October 1928) is a poet, publisher and singer-songwriter from Quebec, and well-known Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. ...

External Links

The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame Website