CANO, a Canadian progressive rock band of the 1970s and 1980s, was the most successful popular musical group in Franco-Ontarian history. Origins CANO evolved out of the Coopérative des artistes du Nouvel-Ontario (Artists' Cooperative of Northern Ontario), an artists' collective established in Sudbury, Ontario in 1970. The cooperative was responsible for developing many of the current cultural institutions of the city's Franco-Ontarian community. The Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Prise de Parole publishing house, Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario, La Nuit sur l'étang and CANO-Musique, as the band was then called, all evolved out of projects launched by artists associated with the cooperative. While based in Sudbury, the cooperative bought an abandoned 320-acre farm in Earlton that became an artists' haven and buffalo ranch. Musical group The group consisted of singer-guitarists André Paiement and Rachel Paiement, violinist Wasyl Kohut, guitarists Marcel Aymar and David Burt, pianist Michel Kendel, bassist John Doerr and drummer Michel Dasti. The band was formed in the fall of 1975, and performed its first concert on December 1st at La Slague in Sudbury. The band also recorded its debut album, Tous dans l'même bateau, released in 1976. The production studio was a converted building on the Paiements' farm near Sturgeon Falls. The band performed both traditional French folk songs and original material by Aymar, the Paiements and Robert Dickson. With its third album, Eclipse, CANO began performing English-language songs as well; the fourth album, Rendezvous, consisted predominantly of English songs as the band made a bid for success in the larger English-language market. The band was most successful on francophone pop charts in Quebec and France, but had notable hits in English Canada as well. Eclipse and Rendezvous, notably, both charted on CFNY, while the singles "Rebound" and "Carrie" reached No. 97 and No. 78 respectively on the RPM charts in 1979 and 1980. In 1978, the band was shaken by the suicide of André Paiement. The following year, the band was profiled in the National Film Board documentary, CANO, Notes on a Collective Experience. Spirit of the North, a compilation issued in 1980, traced CANO's integration of pop, rock and jazz influences into what was originally a folk-based style. In the same year, some of the band's music appeared in the documentary film, A Wives' Tale (Une histoire de femmes), on the 1978 Inco strike in Sudbury. Following the departure of Rachel Paiement in 1980, the band released the