After months of campaigning and voting, Canadians selected the places across the nation they wanted to see immortalized in song and the singer-songwriters they wanted to write those songs.  CBC Radio 2’s sponsored Great Canadian Song Quest challenged artists compose tributes to Canada’s favourite places during a four week span, and the final songs, lovingly crafted by some of Canada’s brightest stars, are finally complete.

“We’ve really made musical history here,” said Mark Steinmetz, director of music programming, CBC Radio. “Never before have Canadians from coast-to-coast been able to have such direct, immediate influence on the music that matters to them. These songs are for all of us—music about Canada, by Canadians, for Canadians.”

Here are The Final Songs and here’s a link to hear samples of each:

·        Tough City, (Tofino, B.C.), by Oh Susanna

·        The Ballad of Mary White, (Hoodoos/Badlands, Alta.), by Jay Sparrow

·        Charlie’s (is coming down), (Good Time Charlie’s at The Plains, Sask.), by The Deep Dark Woods

·        In Waskada Somewhere, (Waskada, Man.), by Chantal Kreviazuk

·        Where They Left it Wild, (Algonquin Park, Ont.), by Hawksley Workman

·        Four Black Sheep in the Night, (The Black Sheep Inn, Que.), by Martha Wainwright

·        Don’t Drive Through, (Hopewell Rocks, N.B.), by David Myles

·        Singing Sands, (Singing Sand Beach, P.E.I.), by Catherine MacLellan

·        On the Rail, (The Cabot Trail, N.S.), by Joel Plaskett

·        Old Crow Black Night Stand Still, (Gros Morne National Park, Nfld.), by Hey Rosetta!

·        Time Before Bones, (Tuktoyaktuk Pingos, N.W.T.), by Dana Sipos

·        Dawson City,  (Dawson City, YK), by Kim Barlow

·        Road to Nowhere, (The Road to Nowhere, NU), by Lucie Idlout