at the Winnipeg Folk Festival that was filmed for a CBC Television documentary. In 1995, at the age of 79, Hemsworth finally recorded his second album, The Songs of Wade Hemsworth, which included all 16 songs from the 1990 songbook. Hemsworth died at Ste. Anne's Hospital for Veterans in Montreal in 2002, following a lengthy illness. On learning of Wade's death, Governor General Adrienne Clarkson paid tribute to Hemsworth, saying that his songs were "so much a part of our folklore and so familiar to us that we didn't realize anyone had written them." Musicologist Peter Weldon eulogized Hemsworth as "the first really original songwriter this country produced", while Anna McGarrigle memorialized him by noting that when she and her sister were first starting out on the folk music scene, there were two essential influences to emulate: Hemsworth and Bob Dylan. He was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003. Personal life Hemsworth was married twice in his life. His first wife, Irene Heywood, died in 1989, following which he remarried to Shirley Singer. His great-nephew, also named Wade Hemsworth, worked as a journalist and columnist at The Hamilton Spectator. Discography Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods (1955) The Songs of Wade Hemsworth (1995) Compilations The Unfortunate Rake (1960) The Rough Guide to the Music of Canada (2005) Classic Canadian Songs from Smithsonian Folkways (2006) References External links Entry at thecanadianencyclopedia.ca 1916 births 2002 deaths Canadian folk singer-songwriters Canadian male singer-songwriters Musicians from Brantford Singers from Montreal 20th-century Canadian male singers OCAD University alumni