The Singing Cowboy Who Parachuted into Canada’s Federal Election | The Tyee
George Canyon has probably played livelier venues than the Eureka Volunteer Fire Hall.
Outside the brick-red building just off Highway 374 near Stellarton, Nova Scotia is a simple sign: “Meet and Greet George Canyon, Tuesday 7 P.M.”
Most nights the country and western star plays to packed houses on the concert circuit. Tonight, the 40 or so people, most of them long since into collecting their pensions, are quiet and watchful — as if they were sizing up a new pastor at their church.
They have come to see the man who wants to be their Conservative MP.