Canada's Walk of Fame

Coordinates: 43 ° 38 ′ 49.1 "  N , 79 ° 23 ′ 9.7"  W.

Section of Canada's Walk of Fame along Simcoe Street in Toronto

The Canada's Walk of Fame is a sidewalk in the Canadian Toronto , comparable to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles . It extends from Roy Thomson Hall on both sides along King Street around the Royal Alexandra Theater to Simcoe Street and was opened in 1998. In addition to actors, film producers and musicians, in contrast to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, athletes, writers and models , for example, are also honored at the ceremonies that take place once a year.

History and selection process

The idea for a Walk of Fame in Toronto came from the businessman Peter Soumalias in 1996, who initially suggested honoring celebrities of the city who earned their merit every year; This led to the project of creating a Canada's Walk of Fame for people from all over Canada based on the Hollywood model. Together with other partners from Toronto, Soumalias financed the first 13 star awards in 1998. Since then, the Walk of Fame in Toronto has become a tourist attraction.

Michael J. Fox's star outside the Royal Alexandra Theater on King Street

Jim Carrey's Star on Simcoe Street

In the annual selection process, which ends April 30th each year, nominations for the Walk of Fame can be submitted by any adult Canadian citizen. In the first few years this was done by letter, fax or email; today nominations are only accepted online via the project's official website.

According to the official selection criteria, the persons to be honored must

• were born in Canada or who spent years in Canada that were essential for the creative qualities of their work;
• have worked in their profession for at least ten years and have achieved generally recognized achievements and
• Have made a significant contribution to Canada's cultural heritage nationally or internationally.

As part of the Canadian Legends Award , people who have already died have been taken into account since 2008.

From each of the several thousand nominations, a selection committee first makes a sorted preselection, which is then forwarded to the project's 15-member board for the final selection decision. Until 2010, between 7 and 13 people per year were selected in this way.

Similar to the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the floor slabs are made of old pink terrazzo . A circled star in the form of a stylized maple leaf (based on the maple leaf from the flag of Canada ), the name and signature of the person honored and a symbol of their activity are engraved on the plates; in the case of groups, only the group name is recorded (without listing the names of the members).

Up to and including 2010, 119 individuals and 12 groups were honored on the Walk of Fame. Unlike on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, individuals can only receive a star once, as there is no distinction between categories.

List of honorees

Alexander Graham Bell's star on the Walk of Fame

Celine Dion (here at a concert in 2008) was honored on the Walk of Fame in 1999

William Shatner received a star on the Walk of Fame in 2000

The Cirque du Soleil (here at a performance in Vienna 2004) received the award in 2002

Nickelback (here at a concert in Dublin in 2006) received the award in 2007

Ryan Reynolds (2014 in Toronto) was honored on the Walk of Fame in 2014

1998	1999	2000
Bryan Adams Pierre Berton John Candy  † Glenn Gould  † Norman Jewison Karen Cain Gordon Lightfoot Rich little Anne Murray Bobby Orr Christopher Plummer Barbara Ann Scott Jacques Villeneuve	Juliette Cavazzi David Cronenberg Hume Cronyn Celine Dion Nancy Greene Lou Jacobi Mary Pickford  † Maurice Richard Rush (group) Buffy Sainte-Marie Wayne  † and Shuster (Duo)	Maureen Forrester Michael J. Fox Evelyn Hart Gordie Howe William Hutt Joni Mitchell Ginette Reno Jean-Paul Riopelle Royal Canadian Air Farce (group) William Shatner Martin Short Donald Sutherland Neil Young
2001	2002	2003
Kenojuak Ashevak Margaret Atwood Jean Béliveau Alexander Graham Bell  † Kurt Browning The Guess Who (group) Ferguson Jenkins Harry Jerome  † Robert Lepage Leslie Nielsen Walter Ostanek Ivan Reitman Teresa Stratas Veronica Tennant	Dan Aykroyd Cirque du Soleil (group) Alex Colville Timothy Findley David Foster Wayne Gretzky Monty Hall Ronnie Hawkins Arthur Hiller Guy Lombardo  † Second City Television (Acting Group) The Tragically Hip (Group)	Scotty Bowman Great Cranston Jim Elder Linda Evangelista Lynn Johnston Lorne Michaels Mike Myers Luc Plamondon Robbie Robertson David Steinberg Shania Twain
2004	2005	2006
Denys Arcand Jim Carrey Shirley Douglas John Kay Diana Krall Mario Lemieux Louis B. Mayer  † Mack Sennett  † Helen Shaver Jack L. Warner  †	Paul Anka George Chuvalo Michael Cohl Pierre Cossette Rex Harrington Daniel Lanois Alanis Morissette Kiefer Sutherland Fay Wray  †	Pamela Anderson Jann Arden Crazy Canucks Brendan Fraser Robert Goulet Eugene Levy Paul Shaffer Alex Trebek
2007	2008	2009
Johnny Bower Rick Hansen Jill Hennessy Nickelback (group) Catherine O'Hara Gordon Pinsent Lloyd Robertson	Frances Bay James Cameron Kids in the Hall (group) kd long Steve Nash Douglas Shearer  † Norma Shearer  † Daria Werbowy	Blue Rodeo (group) Raymond Burr  † Dean Caten & Dan Caten (fashion label Dsquared² ) Kim Cattrall Tom Cochrane Howie Almond Robert Munsch Chantal Petitclerc
2010	2011	2012
David Clayton-Thomas Nelly Furtado Doug Henning  † Clara Hughes Eric McCormack Farley Mowat Sarah Polley	Burton Cummings Daniel Nestor Roberta Lynn Bondar Mordecai Richler  † Russell Peters Sandra Oh	Randy Bachman Phil Hartman  † Russ Jackson Sarah McLachlan Sonia Rodriguez Team Canada 1972
2013	2014	2015
Bob Ezrin Terry Fox  † Victor Garber Craig & Marc Kielburger Oscar Peterson  † Christine Sinclair Alan Thicke	Louise Arbor The band Jeff Healey  † Rachel McAdams Ryan Reynolds Hayley Wickenheiser	Michael Bublé The band Don Cherry & Ron MacLean Wendy Crewson Lorne Greene  † Lawrence Hill Silken Laumann
2016
Jeanne Beker Corey Hart Deepa Mehta Jason Priestley Darryl Sittler Al Waxman  †
† posthumously awarded

See also

• Hollywood North

Web links

Commons : Canada's Walk of Fame  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Canada's Walk of Fame Official Website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Site plan of the sections ( Memento of the original dated August 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the official website of the Canadian Walk of Fame (accessed April 30, 2011) .  
2. ↑ Eligibility for nomination ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the official website of the Canadian Walk of Fame (accessed April 30, 2010) .  
3. ↑ Selection criteria ( Memento of the original dated May 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the official website of the Canadian Walk of Fame (accessed April 30, 2011),  
4. ↑ Members of the Board of Directors ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Status: 2011) (accessed April 30, 2011) .  
5. ↑ List of those honored ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the official website of the Canadian Walk of Fame (accessed April 30, 2011) .  
6. ↑ Press release of May 24, 2001.