Category: Inductees

Terry Jacks was born on March 29, 1944 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His first professional exposure in music was as singer and guitarist for The Chessmen who had a modicum of success in the Vancouver region with two singles on London Records and two singles on Mercury 1964 thru 1966. During one of The Chessmen’s many appearances on CBC-TV’s…
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Susan Jacks was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She is a Canadian singer/songwriter who shot to international fame as part of the Poppy Family with then-husband Terry Jacks, a member of the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame. Her first recording “Which Way You Going Billy” sold 3 million records worldwide and became #1 in Canada and #2 on Billboard in the USA.…
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A British Columbia -based actor/singer/director/choreographer whose career spans over four decades. He is probably best known around the world for his appearances on children’s television. However, Mr. Hyslop has also had a fruitful career in theatre, particularly on the musical stage. He has appeared across the nation in lead roles in works as varied as…
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“When I was 12,” Rick Honey remembers, “my father who was a policeman, took me to a different business every week to see what my career would be.” One of those places in Winnipeg must have been a radio station, because not long after that, he started working as an operator and music librarian at…
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As an actor, director and teacher, Antony Holland was a mainstay of the Vancouver theatrical scene after he arrived in the late 1950s from his native England, where he had been Vice-Principal of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In 1965 he founded Studio 58 at Langara College and for 20 years was instrumental in shaping…
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