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	Carter, Wilf
		Although his popularity began to wane in the 1960s in the face of the changing styles in country music, Carter continued to tour in Canada and performed regularly on CBC TV's 'Tommy Hunter Show,' and at the Calgary Stempede, of which he was the Grand Marshall in 1979.
		Carter has been acknowledged as the father of country music in Canada, a distinction based on his prominence as Canada's first country star, on his influence on Canadian performers, and on the assistance he gave to the careers of others.
		Carter was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Association Hall of Fame in 1971, the CCMA Hall of Honor in 1984, the Juno Awards Hall of Fame in 1985, and the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000623 (596 words)

	Carter, Wilf
		Carter reprit une carrière active au concert par des tournées au Canada et aux États-Unis.
		Carter est considéré comme le père de la musique country au Canada, tant par sa réputation de première vedette dans ce genre, que par son influence sur les exécutants canadiens et son appui à la carrière d'autres interprètes.
		Carter fut admis au Nashville Songwriters Assn Hall of Fame en 1971, au Hall of Honor de la CCMA en 1984, au Juno Hall of Fame en 1985 et au Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame en 1989.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=Q1ARTQ0000623 (698 words)

	Wilf Carter -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1923, Carter moved west to (Click link for more info and facts about Calgary, Alberta) Calgary, Alberta, where he found work as a (A hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback) cowboy and made extra money singing and playing his guitar.
		Carter performed his very first (A broadcast via radio) radio broadcast on (Click link for more info and facts about CFCN) CFCN in 1930.
		Carter recorded his last (A book of blank pages with pockets or envelopes; for organizing photographs or stamp collections etc) album, Whatever Happened to All Those Years, in 1988.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/wilf_carter.htm (628 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Music - Pop Encyclopedia - Carter, Wilf (aka Montana Slim)
		Carter worked as a lumber worker in the woods of West Leichester, Nova Scotia eventually moving on to the Alberta grain fields in 1923.
		Things soon started to roll as Carter met a gentleman on the trail rides who introduced him to New York executives at NBC and CBS where, after 15 minutes of singing and yodelling, he was offered a contract to star in his own show -- The Wilf Carter Show.
		Carter was made Honourary Chief of the Stony Indian Tribe as well as Honourary Citizen of both Winnipeg and Tennessee.
	jam.canoe.ca /Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/C/Carter_Wilf.html (752 words)

	Wilf Carter - 1991 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wilf Carter, known to millions as "Montana Slim," was born in Guysboro, Nova Scotia December 18, 1904.
		Influenced by the father of country music, Jimmie Rodgers, Wilf Carter is one of the finest yodellers of all time, and is the author of more than 500 classic western songs.
		Wilf retired to Arizona and passed away in Scottsdale in 1996.
	www.westernmusic.org /HallOfFamefiles/WilfCarter.html (86 words)

	Wilf Carter b
		Carter's father, a travelling Baptist minister, was born in Switzerland and his mother in Aldershot, Hampshire, England.
		Rejecting his mother's wish to be a preacher, Wilf was working on a farm with a team of oxen and ploughing at the age of 13.
		Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) was elected to the Nashville Songwriters Association International Hall Of Fame in 1971.
	www.centrohd.com /bio/bio11/wilf_carter_b.htm (670 words)

	Thursday, December 12, 1996 -- STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS (119) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wilf Carter was born December 18, 1904 in Port Hilford, Nova Scotia and died one week ago at the age of 91.
		Wilf Carter was inspired at an early age by a yodeller who was passing through town.
		Wilf was such a hit in the prairies that the Canadian Pacific Railway hired him to entertain trail riders on their summer packing trips through the Rockies.
	www.parl.gc.ca /35/2/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/119_96-12-12/119SM1E.html (2367 words)

	Encyclopedia: Wilf Carter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wilf Carter (born December 18, 1904 in Port Hilford, Nova Scotia, Canada, died December 5, 1996 in Scottsdale, Arizona), also known as Montana Slim, was a Canadian country music singer and yodeler.
		In 1923, Carter moved west to Calgary, Alberta, where he found work as a cowboy and made extra money singing and playing his guitar.
		Carter performed his very first radio broadcast on CFCN in 1930.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wilf-Carter (1330 words)

	VH1.com : Wilf Carter : Biography
		Carter worked farms in central Nova Scotia during his early teens, and when he was 16, he left home in a dispute with his father, a strict Baptist and missionary, over attending prayer services.
		Carter was hired as a trail hand and entertainer by the Canadian Pacific Railway, which ran tours for Easterners seeking a taste of the real West.
		Carter died in early December of 1996, just a couple of weeks short of his 92nd birthday, two months after he was diagnosed with stomach cancer.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/carter_wilf/bio.jhtml (1020 words)

	Wilf Carter - Heritage Community Foundation
		Carter continued to perform throughout the year and in 1930 was hired to sing on a popular Friday night programme called The Old Timers on Calgary radio station CFCN.
		Carter's old style of country began to fall somewhat out of fashion during the 1960s but he continued to record and tour at a reduced schedule until the 1990s.
		Wilf Carter was a recognizable country music celebrity the world over but for many in Canada and the United States he was the voice of a generation.
	www.abheritage.ca /albertans/profile/wilf_carter.html (957 words)

	Wilf Carter - coming to Smoky Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1950 Wilf, his wife, and their two daughters went on the road.
		Wilf carried on by himself, and has been doing his own show ever since.
		Wilf says that it is this kind of support and backing from the public that has made his long and varied career possible.
	www.smokylake.com /history/people/carterwilf.htm (313 words)

	Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies - Wilf Carter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wilf rode the box cars from Nova Scotia to Alberta in the 1920s and went to work as a guitar-strumming cowboy and ranch hand.
		The TRCR, in fact, started Wilf's musical career, as a couple of years later he was called to Montreal by an eminent CPR trail rider for an audition.
		Unable to read music, he weathered the Depression and went on to be an international star under the name of "Montana Slim" with his folksy western songs, but he never forgot his roots, and regularly returned to Calgary with his guitar, his local fame culminating in being a Calgary Stampede Marshall in the 1970s.
	www.canuck.com /~trcr/bigwilf.html (284 words)

	HistoryTelevision.ca :: TV :: Shows :: Canadians (Cable)
		Wilf Carter was born in Port Hilford, Nova Scotia, on December 18, 1904.
		Carter found work on harvest crews and as a horse wrangler, then a trail guide in the Rocky Mountains.
		Carter’s radio shows on CBC, CBS, and NBC were big hits and he began to be known as "Montana Slim".
	www.historytelevision.ca /tv/shows/titledetails/title_14651.asp (265 words)

	Wilf Carter Memorabilia, Canning Heritage Centre
		Wilfred Arthur Charles Carter was born on December 18, 1904 in Port Hilford, Nova Scotia.
		Wilf's break came in 1930 when he was asked to be an entertainer on trail rides through the Rockies for the Canadian Pacific Railway.
		In 1940 Wilf was involved in a serious car accident in Montana and was unable to perform for nearly ten years.
	www.fieldwoodhs.ednet.ns.ca /cfhswilf.html (1107 words)

	Wilf Carter - A Prairie Legend: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Carter's voice is a pleasing one, reminiscent at times of Gene Autry [+], but his repertory generally doesn't intersect much with Autry's -- the early electric-accompanied sides from 1947 are also very spare and have more of a raw quality than one would expect from this era.
		Disc three covers the tail end of his RCA period, when Carter was trying for more of a pop sound, in keeping with the declining public response to cowboy songs -- the stuff is more sentimental, but Carter never strays too far from the playful mood of his best work.
		The real highlight of this disc, however, is the stuff that Carter cut himself at the end of the 1950s, which mostly consists of really good cowboy material, all originals and all played in a spare, eloquent style with Carter's voice showing tremendous vigor.
	music.com /release/a_prairie_legend/1 (629 words)

	Country - Cecil Campbell -> Chestnut Grove Quartet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But with the Carter Family still visible and the music of the original Carter Family considered a fountainhead for bluegrass and folk artists, the interest in their music remained strong into the sixties.
		Between 1938 and '41 country music pioneers, The Carter Family settled in Del Rio, Texas where they were featured on one of the border stations on a regular basis.
		Many of these numbers, credited to A.P. Carter, were his own compositions; others were adapted from other far more ancient sources, the same way Woody Guthrie would freely raid the Carter repertoire for melodies for his own numbers.
	www.rootsandrhythm.com /roots/COUNTRY/country_c1.htm (4286 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wilf Carter, who died in 1996, was a rustic hill-‘n’-range singer complete with yodels.
		Carter spent several years as a cowboy and became a rodeo rider under the tutelage of former Calgary Stampede champion Pete Knight.
		A big thrill for Carter came in 1970 when he was asked to be Grand Marshal of the Calgary Stampede and played to full houses for the week.
	www.collections.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume6/82-85.htm (1544 words)

	Carter Coat of Arms
		The history of the Carter family begins with those Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain from whom the name springs.
		The surname Carter is thought to be derived from the Old English "craet," or the Old Norse "kartr," both meaning "cart," and was most likely first borne either by someone who built carts or by a transporter of goods.
		Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Ambrose Carter, who settled in Virginia in 1663; Thomas Carter and his wife Frances, who came to Philadelphia in 1685 with their children Thomas, Henry, Ann, and John, Chris Carter, who immigrated to St. John's, Newfoundland in 1705.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/carter-coat-arms.htm (1318 words)

	inductees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wilf Carter was born in Port Hilford, NS in 1904.
		Wilf continued to pack auditoriums right up to his final tour in 1990.
		Wilf passed away in Arizona on December 5, 1996 just two weeks before his 92nd birthday.
	www.hanksnow.com /nscmhf_pages/nscmhfinductees.htm (2018 words)

	Is There an Alberta Folk Music?
		For such a jump to have occurred, the original tune must have been available, prior to the composing of the "Calgary Roundup." Not unlike Woody Guthrie, Wilf Carter probably composed this tune, not aware that his version was so similar to the traditional tune.
		The only real difference between Wilf Carter's transformations and those occurring in older oral traditions is that there is a hard copy of Carter's versions available.
		Wilf Carter had a massive impact on Alberta: his songs are revered and considered "the best possible" by a lot of prairie folk.
	cjtm.icaap.org /content/6/v6art3.html (3150 words)

	Wilf Carter dead at 91 - 13:27:56 1996/12/06 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wilf Carter dead at 91 - 13:27:56 1996/12/06
		Canadian country music legend Wilf Carter isdead at 91.
		Two months ago Carter was diagnosed with stomach cancer.
	www.newsworld.cbc.ca /archive/html/1996/12/06/willcarter.html (61 words)

	Wilf Carter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rejecting his mother's wish for him to be a preacher, Wilf was working on a farm with a team of oxen and ploughing at the age of 13.
		He said he did not mind what they called him as long as they paid him, and during his long career, he has become equally well known by both names.
		Carter went into semi-retirement in Florida in the 60s but continued to make appearances at special events such as the Calgary Stampede.
	www.themusicbarn.com /html/wilf_carter.html (579 words)

	Ray Meyers Country Music
		I was terrified, but secretly thought to myself that maybe this could be the beginning of me becoming a BIG radio cowboy singer.
		This was the last time that I ever yodeled, until 1991, the day of Wilf’s passing, when I sang a few of Wilf’s songs at a seniors center.
		Knowing what I know now about the history of music, I strongly feel that Wilf Carter, as he stands in our history books, is a very under rated pioneer and trail blazer of country and folk music.
	www.raymeyers.ca (4796 words)

	Wilf Carter - Calgary Roundup Tabs, Chords, Lyrics
		Not long ago I saw a request for more Wilf Carter songs.
		Here's one of three of Wilf's songs that are on our second DC, "Ranch Dressing": CALGARY ROUNDUP Wilf Carter (recorded ~1935) Key of A We're a- [A] head-in' for the [A7] round-up, goin' [D] to the big stam- [A] pede, [F#-] Old Dick Cosgrove [B7] ri-din' in the [E7] lead.
		You may only use this tab or chord file for private study, scholarship or research.
	www.allcountrytabs.com /tabs/carter-wilf/calgary-roundup-7455.html (550 words)

	www.RocklandsEntertainment.com > Artists > Wilf Carter
		In fact, it was at the encouragement of his friend and fellow performer Johnny Wright (of the Johnny and Jack duo, and husband to Country Queen Kitty Wells) that he did his last five years of Canadian Concerts under the wing of Rocklands Entertainment.
		Not bad, considering that on the first of these tours, Wilf's 80th birthday was celebrated.
		When Wilf Carter stepped in front of the microphone at 80 years of age and uttered the words "I Feel Like a Kitten Tonight", the fans roared with approval...
	www.rocklandsentertainment.com /wilfcarter.html (342 words)

	Wilf Carter on Almondnet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Read about wilf carter in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary.
		Large collection of guitar chords and tabs by Wilf Carter.
		Roy Acuff Sons Of The Pioneers Vernon Dalhart Wilf Carter Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper and many others...
	www.ncpm.co.uk /popmusic/wilf_carter.html (449 words)

	Minutes September 2002
		Wilf gave a detailed report from the conference.
		One of Torfaen's motions had been carried with Wilf making the proposing speech.
		The Trades Council thanked Wilf for his attendance at the conference.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /rmcode/rmcode/page8.html (176 words)

	Chapter9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Like fellow Nova Scotian Wilf Carter, he was inspired by the legendary U.S. country singer Jimmie Rodgers.
		Hank Snow is Canada's most revered country performer, rivalled only by Wilf Carter, Willie Lamothe, Tommy Hunter and, more recently, Anne Murray.
		Bluenoser, Wilf Carter, became a fixture at Nashville's Grand Ol' Opry in
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume1/chapter9/312-315.htm (1045 words)

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