Van Dyke "Deal Me In" (Polydor/Change Records, 1977) (LP)
Canadian country, apparently... Looking forward to checking it out someday.
Bob Van Dyke "Another Van Dyke" (MCA/Change Records, 19--?) (LP)
Bob Van Dyke "...Plays Bob Dylan" (CBS Records, 1970) (LP)
Bob Van Dyke "Bob Van Dyke" (Change Records, 1978) (LP)
Bob Van Dyke "Only Two Lives To Live" (Change Records, 1980) (LP)
Kelli Veno & Silver Rain "Wait Til The Sun Comes Up" (Boot Records, 1979) (LP)
(Produced by Ray Griff, David Cline & Lee Hazen)
A remarkably flat, tepid pop-country set from a Nova Scotian husband-wife duo, Jim Veno and Kelli Veno, who producer Ray Griff met while playing a show in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. In his liner notes, Griff describes how the couple approached him after his show and asked if he would produce them, and so he did, transporting them to Nashville while also providing an album's worth of his own material for them to record. The result is an amazingly un-compelling album, a combination of languid vocals and unremarkable, generic countrypolitan songwriting -- sort of like if Anne Murray cut a studio album after forgetting to drink her morning cup of coffee. It's not bad or musically repellant, just not invigorating or uplifting in any way... though that didn't stop Griff from releasing a short string of singles from these sessions, lasting as late as 1981. Anyway, you can skip this one.
Laura Vinson "Adios Mexico" (Royalty Records, 1984) (LP)
(Produced by R. Harlan Smith)
Wayne Vold "Country Dreams" (Royalty Records, 1975) (LP)
(Produced by R. Harlan Smith & Joe Kozak)
A professional rodeo rider and bronc buster, Alberta's singing cowboy Wayne Vold won championships in 1965 and '66, parlaying his success into a modest musical career, and later worked as a "stock contractor," which I think means he brokers livestock sales. As far as I know this was his only album, though he also recorded several singles on other small labels.
Canada has long had a vibrant love of country music, often tinged with strong regional pride and songs extolling the great Northern expanse. Some artists, of course, became well-known down south, but for every Hank Snow there are literally thousands of other musicians who never made it to Nashville, or never even tried. At any rate, the Canadian country scene is huge, and deserves to be celebrated in its own right. I'm pretty sure I'm only scratching the surface here, and welcome any recommendations, additions or corrections. 
