Mar*Star Great Canadian Albums – 2011

In 2011, the Mar*Star – our small, family newsletter that my sister Charlotte then edited – decided to poll its readers again to determine Canada's greatest songs and albums for a Canada Day edition.

Here are the albums that were selected in 2011:

1. Neil Young – Harvest
2. Tragically Hip – Fully Completely
3. Joni Mitchell – Blue
4. Lowest of the Low – Shakespeare My Butt
5. Neil Young – After the Gold Rush
6. Sarah McLachlan – Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
7. Bruce Cockburn – Stealing Fire
8. Band – Music from Big Pink
9. Alanis Morrisette – Jagged Little Pill
10. Band – The Band
11. Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session
12. K.D. Lang – Hymns of the 49th Parallel
13. Spirit of the West – Save This House
14. Corb Lund – Five Dollar Bill
15. Rheostatics – Melville
16. Joni Mitchell – Court and Spark
17. Blue Rodeo – Outskirts
18. Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
19. Great Big Sea – Play
20. Grievous Angels – One Job Town
21. Weakerthans – Left and Leaving
22. Barenaked Ladies – Gordon
23. Daniel Lanois – Acadie
24. Great Big Sea – Up
25. Leslie Spit TreeO – Don't Cry Too Hard
26. Rheostatics – Whale Music
27. Tragically Hip – Up to Here
28. Blue Rodeo – Lost Together
29. Sloan – Twice Removed
30. Leonard Cohen – I'm Your Man
31. Blue Rodeo – Casino
32. K.D. Lang – Ingenue
33. Blue Rodeo – 5 Days in May
34. Tragically Hip – Road Apples
35. Rush – Moving Pictures
36. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It in People
37. Barenaked Ladies – Snacktime!
38. Band – The Last Waltz
39. Bryan Adams – Reckless
40. Rankin Family – Fare Thee Well Love
41. Sam Roberts – We Were Born in a Flame
42. Black Cabbage – A Recording by Black Cabbage
43. Blue Rodeo – Diamond Mine
44. Kathleen Edwards – Failer
45. Irish Descendants – Gypsies & Lovers
46. Northern Pikes – Big Blue Sky
47. Wild Strawberries – Heroine
48. Oscar Peterson – Night Train
49. Grapes of Wrath – Treehouse
50. Arcade Fire – Funeral