Alberta slim biography

Biography.
Alberta Slim was a Canadian country music singer.
Biography: Alberta Slim is the Real McCoy.

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Alberta Slim

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Origin: Lloydminster, Alberta
Biography:

Alberta Slim is the Real McCoy. A cowboy crooner who pioneered the early days of Canadian country music. He rode the rails, toured Canada from one end to the other, was a mainstay at fairgrounds and jamborees, sang on the street, played on the radio and recorded a dozen albums. He wrote songs about Canadian heroes and history and about life on the prairies.…so wrote Jenny Gabruch in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix on July 17, 2002. Eric Edwards was then 92. Born in England, in 1910 he emigrated to Canada with his parents and six siblings settling on a ranch near Lloydminster, Alberta. Eric loved to sing and he had great encouragement from his piano-playing dad. It wasn’t very long until he had his own guitar and he began to hear a fellow named Wilf Carter singing over a Calgary radio station. Wilf became his hero, and like Wilf, he began to write songs himself. A friend who was going into the army gave him some of his shirts on which was stitched "Alberta Slim". They were the right fit and wore well. People

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Year Born: 1910

Year Died: 2005

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“Alberta Slim” (Eric Edwards) (1910-2005)

“Alberta Slim is the Real McCoy: a cowboy Crooner who pioneered the early days of Canadian country music. He rode the rails, toured Canada from one end to the other, was a mainstay at fairgrounds and jamborees, sang on the street, played on the radio and recorded a dozen aIbums. He wrote songs about Canadian heroes and history and about life on the prairies”.

So wrote Jenny Gabruch in the Saskatoon StarPhoenix on July 17, 2002

Eric Edwards was then 93. Born in England, in 1920 he emigrated to Canada with his parents and six siblings, settling on a ranch near Lloydminster, Alberta. Eric loved to sing and he had great encouragement from his piano-playing dad. It wasn’t very long until he had his own guitar and he began to hear a fellow named Wilf Carter singing over a Calgary radio station. Wilf became his hero, and like Wilf, he began to write songs himself. A friend who was going into the army gave him some of his shirts on which

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Eric Charles Edwards (1910 - 2005)

EricCharles"Alberta Slim"Edwards

Born in Wilsford, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom

Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

[spouse(s) unknown]

[children unknown]

Died at age 95in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

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Biography

Eric Edwards is Notable.

Eric "Alberta Slim" Edwards was a Canadian country singer-songwriter.

Born in Wiltshire, England, in 1910, he was the second of the six children of Thomas and Alice (Gardiner) Edwards.^[1]

His family emigrated to Canada when he was ten. They settled in the Lloydminster, Alberta, area^[2] before homesteading in a two-room cabin near St. Walberg, Saskatchewan. Slim learned to play fiddle and guitar, which served him well as he sang for his supper while riding the rails across the country during the Great Depression.

He appeared on an amateur radio show in Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1937. This launched his singing career, earning him the nickname of "Canada's