Big Names Highlight This Year’s Walk of Fame Inductees

They’re among the most famous names in Canadian entertainment.

And they want you to walk all over them.

The identities of those being honoured this summer on the Entertainment District’s fabled Walk of Fame have been released. And in a country some claim doesn’t turn out stars, most of them are household names.

SCTV vet Catherine O’Hara and longtime newsman Lloyd Robertson are the veterans on the list. So is the quintessentially Canadian Gordon Pinsent.

Nickelback (top left) are relative newcomers compared to that august company, but they’ll be there as well.

Also making the list – a woman some will be surprised to find is a Canuck: former Law and Order-prosecutor-turned-TV coroner Jill Hennessey of the hit series “Crossing Jordan.”

She’ll be joined by some non-show biz types who are also getting their due.

Johnny Bower is a Leaf legend.

And Rick Hansen inspired millions with his Man in Motion tour.

Eugene Levy, who was inducted last year, will host the official ceremony downtown on June 9th.

Canada’s Walk of Fame has been around since 1998. Among the first ‘winners’ that year: Bryan Adams, John Candy and Jim Carrey.


Canada’s Walk of Fame – inductees past and present:

2006

Pamela Anderson (actress)
Jann Arden (singer)
Crazy Canucks (skiing legends)
Brendan Fraser (actor)
Robert Goulet (singer)
Eugene Levy (comedian/actor)
Paul Shaffer (musician)
Alex Trebek (game show host)

2005

Kiefer Sutherland (actor)
Paul Anka (musician)
Rex Harrington (ballet dancer)
Alanis Morissette (musician)
Daniel Lanois (producer)
Pierre Cossette (producer).
Michael Cohl (concert promoter)
George Chuvalo (boxer)
Fay Wray (actress)

2004

Denys Arcand (film director)
Shirley Douglas (actor)
John Kay (musician)
Diana Krall (musician)
Mario Lemieux (hockey player)
Louis B. Mayer (Hollywood pioneer)
Mack Sennett (Hollywood pioneer)
Helen Shaver (actor)
Jack Warner (Hollywood pioneer)

2003

Scotty Bowman (hockey coach)
Toller Cranston (skater)
Jim Elder (equestrian)
Linda Evangelista (model)
Lynn Johnston (cartoonist)
Lorne Michaels (producer)
Mike Myers (actor)
Luc Plamondon (musician)
Robbie Robertson (musician)
David Steinberg (comedian/actor/director/writer)
Shania Twain (musician)

2002

Dan Aykroyd (actor)
Cirque du Soleil (circus troupe)
Alex Colville (painter)
Timothy Findley (writer)
David Foster (music producer)
Wayne Gretzky (hockey player)
Monty Hall (game show host)
Ronnie Hawkins (musician)
Arthur Hiller (film director)
Guy Lombardo (bandleader)
SCTV (comedy troupe)
The Tragically Hip (musicians)

2001

Kenojuak Ashevak (artist)
Margaret Atwood (writer)
Jean Beliveau (hockey player)
Kurt Browning (figure skater)
The Guess Who (musicians)
Ferguson Jenkins (baseball player)
Harry Winston Jerome (sprinter)
Robert Lepage (film director)
Leslie Nielsen (actor)
Walter Ostanek (polka king)
Ivan Reitman (producer/director)
Teresa Stratas (opera soprano)
Veronica Tennant (ballet dancer)

2000

Maureen Forrester (singer)
Michael J. Fox (actor)
Evelyn Hart (ballet dancer)
Gordie Howe (hockey player)
William Hutt (actor)
Joni Mitchell (singer)
Ginette Reno (singer)
JeanPaul Riopelle (painter)
Royal Canadian Air Farce (comedy troupe)
William Shatner (actor)
Martin Short (actor)
Donald Sutherland (actor)
Neil Young (singer

1999

David Cronenberg (film director)
Hume Cronyn (actor)
Celine Dion (singer)
Nancy Greene (downhill skier)
Lou Jacobi (actor)
Juliette Cavazzi (singer)
Mary Pickford (actor)
Maurice Richard (hockey player)
Rush (musicians)
Buffy Sainte-Marie (songwriter)
Wayne and Shuster (comedy duo)

1998

Bryan Adams (musician)
Pierre Berton (writer)
John Candy (actor)
Jim Carrey (actor)
Glenn Gould (musician)
Norman Jewison (director)
Karen Kain (ballet dancer)
Gordon Lightfoot (musician)
Rich Little (impressionist)
Anne Murray (singer)
Bobby Orr (hockey player)
Christopher Plummer (actor)
Barbara Ann Scott (figure skater)
Jacques Villeneuve (race car driver)

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