Canadian Railroad Trilogy, the late songwriter’s hymn to progress, would not make it past CBC gatekeepers today
On the northernmost point of Tudhope Park, on a narrow peninsula reaching into Lake Couchiching just outside the Ontario town of Orillia, 150 kilometres due north of Toronto, stands a statue of Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian singer and songwriter who died Monday at the age of 84. The park, which is home to the Mariposa Folk Festival, is not far from where Lightfoot was born.
