Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Stompin' Tom Connors
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Songs referencing Canadian historical events=== The following is a list of events in the [[history of Canada]] which have been 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. {| class="wikitable" |- ! Song ! Summary |- |"Reesor Crossing Tragedy" |1969 song about the [[Reesor Siding Strike of 1963]] which saw three union workers murdered. |- |"Tillsonburg" |When Stompin' Tom worked in the [[Cultivation of tobacco|tobacco field]]s of [[Tillsonburg]], Ontario. |- |"Wop May" |About the Canadian pilot [[Wilfrid R. "Wop" May]]. |- |"The Bridge Came Tumblin' Down" |1972 song about the 19 men killed in the collapse of the [[Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing]]. |- |"The Curse of the ''Marc Guylaine''" |1973 song about the fishing trawler ''[[Marc Guylaine]]'' which saw two sister-ships and two identical ships all sink under inexplicable circumstances. |- |"[[Big Joe Mufferaw (song)|Big Joe Mufferaw]]" |About the French-Canadian logging legend [[Joseph Montferrand]]. |- |"The Martin Hartwell Story" |About the [[bush pilot]] [[Martin Hartwell]] who survived 31 days in the [[Northwest Territories]], after resorting to [[Human cannibalism|cannibalism]] (Connors' song does ''not'' reference this last fact, instead focusing on the efforts of David Pisurayak Kootook in helping keep Hartwell alive at the cost of his own life). |- |"Algoma Central 69" |About the historical [[Algoma Central Railway]]. |- |"The Black Donnellys' Massacre" and "Jenny Donnelly" |Both about the [[Black Donnellys]] |- |"The Last Fatal Duel" |1973 song about [[Robert Lyon (duellist)|Robert Lyon]]. |- |"Fire in the Mine" |About the [[Hollinger Mines#Fire|Hollinger Mines fire]] that killed 39 miners in [[Timmins, Ontario]]. |}
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Stompin' Tom Connors
(section)
Add topic