Some oldies but goodies suitable for long road trips: BTO, Guess Who, certain solo Burton Cummings stuff, April Wine, the Stampeders, and selected Ian Thomas.
The instant he can (and if he has Sirius it gets CBC) he should listen to CBC radio.
Quirks and Quarks
Definitely not the Opera
That guy who talks about the family (has books and everything, the dad runs a record shop, and also plays music…(I know I know, but I can’t recall his name right now and CBC scheduling isn’t coming on, he is on Sundays at noon often…help!)
You mean The Vinyl Cafe with Stuart McLean?
There’s also
The Watchmen
Ashley MacIsaac
54-40
I think I’m showing my age though 
OMG, Thank you! I was sitting here trying to remember it, begging CBC radio’s website to speed up.
Forget I said anything. As far as I’m concerned, nobody in the world wears shoes. Or has feet.
Ooh, Canadian music discussion - okay, here’s some more stuff you need to listen to:
Amanda Marshall
Bedouin Soundclash
Chalk Circle
Chantal Kreviazuk
Colin James
Cowboy Junkies
David Usher
Diana Krall
Ivana Santilli
Jacksoul
Jann Arden
Jeff Healey Band
Jesse Cook
Jully Black
k-os
Lisa Dalbello
Luba
Philosopher Kings
Prozzak
Remy Shand
Robbie Robertson
Rough Trade
Sarah MacLachlan
Sass Jordan
Spoons
Wide Mouth Mason
Wild T and the Spirit
and, of course, Zappacosta
You’d call a pizza with everything all-dressed in Regina, Northern Piper? Maybe “loaded” is a Calgary thing.
ETA: Forgot to add that you also need to look up Dr. David Suzuki so you can join the write-in campaign on our next election - “Dr. David Suzuki for Prime Minister!”
Yup. Just double-checked the menus in the pizza entries in the yellow pages. I’d say about three-quarters of them have “All dressed”. The ones that don’t use that term call it “House Special”, “Royal” or “Imperial”. Didn’t see any entry for “loaded.”
Pretty sure we used that term in Kingston as well. That weird “hoagie” thing there was a different story…
Oh, and I’m shocked that no-one has recommended the classic cross-country Canadian song for Frank to listen to as he travels north: Gordon Lightfoot, “The Canadian Railroad Trilogy.” Flipside: “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”
And, for a lighter mood, anything by the Arrogant Worms, with a special recomend for “Saskatchewan Pirates.”
Yes, Frank, I hope you downloaded my Greatest Hits to accompany you on your trip.
Naw, just kidding. The Spoons (no relation, BTW) were popular in the early-to-mid 1980s, and best known for “Nova Heart” and “Romantic Traffic,” among others. Also for their bass player, Sandy Horne, who was quite an attractive young lady.
Some good selections there, featherlou. As for me, of all people, forgetting Lightfoot’s “Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” Northern Piper, all I can say is :smack: D’oh!
Anyway, here’s another Canadian group we missed: Klaatu. Recommended albums, Frank, include 3:47 EST (don’t miss the hit single “Sub Rosa Subway” and the original version of “Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft”), Hope, and Sir Army Suit.
I have a desire to move to Canada (the hockey, lax, cold winters, nice people), but the gene for adventure is lacking.
So my new plan is to live vicariously through Frank…even though it is pathetic to live vicariously through someone I have never met, on a board that I just joined…
I can see that I shall have to go music shopping. I just bought Stan Rogers - thanks to a recent thread, “Goddamn them all! I was told…” - and I’ve liked Stompin’ Tom for decades.
The car has not yet fallen off the trailer, and I’m in Iowa City, Iowa. One might think that I am making a Grand Tour of America’s Heartland instead of beginning a Great Adventure.
I hope you get better weather than we did driving from SF to Toronto - last summer it was over 110 for most of our trip… We ended up sleeping during the days and driving all night… But it was still a great trip - I think… We didn’t see much - it was DARK!
Nice to have another Yank in Ontario! 
Hey! I just remembered… The Rodeo Song is Canadian too!
…although I learned it when I lived in Denver…
Good luck on your move, Frank. Let us know how your withdrawal from the sun goes…
The lids on Tim Horton’s cups leak. I’ll have to find some other brand.
I’m in Toronto tonight. It just . . . happened. Long day.
Well, you’re only four hours out of Ottawa, then. Relax tomorrow morning, hit a music store to get some of that fine Canadian music we’ve been discussing, and you can head off to Ottawa in the afternoon.
And now that you’re in Canada, don’t forget it’s a long weekend. Have a good one!
I’ll stay here today, eh? Go to the zoo, maybe downtown after. I’m two days ahead of schedule, I may as well play tourist for a bit.
After I crossed the border, I was going the speed limit of 70 in Sarnia before I remembered it was kilometres. Oops.
If I can ask, Frank, where are you staying in Toronto?
And good use of “eh.” You’re fitting in already!
Other brand of road coffee, you mean? I don’t think there is any other. And I don’t think switching from Tim Horton’s is an option here, anyway.
Maybe it’s more like hide the wife and grease the cats ass, here comes Frank ! Take off, you hoser!
A Holiday Inn at Markham and the 401. Nobody better come egg my car. :dubious:
I must say, after a day of meandering around Toronto by bus and subway to the zoo, then Bloor & St. George (where I got looked at funny for taking a picture of my grandmother’s old apartment building - I don’t know why they don’t remember me from the 70’s), then walking a bit down Yonge, then to the Science Center, and back here: I have reinforced my decision not to move here, it’s just too. damn. big. and too. damn. crowded. I guess my tastes in cities have changed since I was eighteen.
In fact, I’m beginning to wonder about Ottawa. I wonder if U-Haul would whine much if I took their truck to Halifax, Charlottetown, or St. John?
I am attempting - with limited success - to not try to pronounce the words on signs in French. I’d better sign up for a class quickly.
No, it’s Etobicoke where they egg cars. In Scarborough, they just steal them.
Wow, you sure got around today! Sounds like what I did the last time I had a day free in Toronto (which was the end of June)–just wandered around, looking at what has changed and wondering at the busy-ness of it all, and wondering how I lived there for years. But kind of missing the place too.
Well, if such things have been crossing your mind, here’s what you do: take the 400 north to where it continues as 69. Head north on 69 to Sudbury, where you can get 17 westbound. Take 17 westbound; it’ll become Highway 1 just west of Kenora. Head west on 1 until it becomes 16 Avenue N in Calgary. Call me when you hit the Deerfoot.
Seriously, Ottawa is not like Toronto. You’ll be fine. And thanks for keeping us posted–I’m really enjoying reading of your progress.
So? You in Ottawa yet, Frank?