Kim Mitchell was part of Max Webster ,I have a cottage in an area where Kim plays several times a year ,I have played with him and bounced for him as well at the bar lol .He lives near Windsor -Detroit area not sure if he played in Detroit much though .
I don’t know Kathleen Edwards off hand ,when I next go to town I will try to explore what she is all about .I have to figure out a better internet set up for my cabin .
Another you probably know is Rush ,they are why I am surprised you know so many little guys ,it took them way too long to get inducted into the hall of fame and they themselves said they are not well known south of the border .I figured if they were not known you probably don’t know many others .
Rush was fairly well-known where I was, central Ohio, back in the day. IIRC, a Columbus radio station played some Rush, starting with
Working Man from their first album. I like some Rush but Geddy's vocals kept me from being a big fan, okay when he sang softly, unpleasant when he screeched. I posted
2112 in this thread, somewhere. The Guess Who was well-known, also.
Side note: Way back when, if we didn't hear it on the radio, we didn't know it existed, and the sad thing is that what was played on radio often wasn't the best track(s) from an album. For an example, Jethro Tull (Sorry, British, not Canadian, but the first example I thought of). The Jethro Tull tracks I heard on the radio back then were rather bizarre, IMO, so I wasn't interested. Decades later, in the age of YouTube, I hear some fantastic Tull tracks like
We Used to Know (from the album
Stand Up, 1969, the melody ripped off by the Eagles eight years later for
Hotel California),
Farm on the Freeway (from
Crest of a Knave, 1987), and others. Then, there were those artists/bands who never "made it" but were good. There are a lot of albums, by bands I had never even heard of, posted on YouTube, that are quite good. I guess they never got promoted, didn't get radio play, so they were unknown outside their local area.