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138 Popular Culture Review railroad station where he had often spent nights during visits to his mother (Snow, 1994, p. 503). He was elected to the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame, received honors from the Canadian government, and continued to tour his native country to standing ovations and sell-out crowds (Snow, 1994, p. 2). His more than 100 albums include numerous songs paying tribute to his homeland. These include, ‘'Canadian Pacific,” “Blue Canadian Rockies,” and his nostalgic expression of love for his home province, “My Nova Scotia Home”: There’s a place I’ll always cherish Neath the blue Atlantic skies Where the shores down in Cape Breton Bids the golden sun to rise And the fragrance of the apple blossom Sprays the dew-kissed lawn Back in deal old Nova Scotia The place where I was bom The Scotian and the Ocean Limited And the Maritime Express Their mighty engines throbbing Make their way towards the west And the sturdy fishing schooners Sway so lazily to and fr