Stompin' Tom Connors: The myth and the man — an unauthorized biography

Stompin' Tom Connors is a legend. There are very few Canadians who don't know the foot-stompin' patriot in the cowboy hat who sang almost exclusively of the country he loved and called home. But there is much more to Tom Connors than “Bud the Spud” and “The Hockey Song.”

Tom's childhood was traumatic and he never fully recovered from being separated from his mother at a young age. As he made multiple trips across Canada, the country became his home and its people his family. Along the way h...