Stompin' Tom Connors

Stompin' Tom Connors, the most successful country artist in Canadian history and Dr. Stompin' Tom Connors to you, received an honorary doctor of law degree from the University of Toronto in the year 2000, and this was not the only award bestowed upon the board-stomping fellow that year -- he also received a Governor's General Performing Arts Award. This and the doctorate were among the first awards that Connors didn't ship back, as he has done with six Juno Awards for Male Country Singer of the Year, and a 1998 Lifetime Achievement prize at the East Coast Music Awards. The Jun...