Pictured: Muddy Water (left) with Richard "King Biscuit Boy" Newell
In a special to the Hamilton Spectator on June 6, 2009, King Biscuit Boy's brother, Waller R. Newell, wrote about his legendary sibling's life. Waller offered insights into the music man's career: meeting members of the Beatles, working with Aretha Franklin, and more. He also discussed his brother's intellectual side.
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From their website: Since 1966, the poverty of loneliness and exclusion has been overcome with friendship and compassion at Welcome Inn Community Centre, where people from all walks of life work together to alleviate poverty in the North End and across Hamilton.
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Hamilton's Stefan Gnys only made 12 copies of his album Horizoning when he first released it in 1969. Thanks to some YouTube exposure, a record company is now making it much less rare.
Hamilton's Superstar Crush received a rave review for their debut album, Way Too Much in the December 18, 2025 edition of the prestigious New Yorker magazine.
Barry Truax, C.M. (Vancouver, British Columbia) - Authority in acoustic communication and electroacoustic music, composer, original member of the World Soundscape Project
Patrick George Croskerry, C.M. (Halifax, Nova Scotia) - Emergency medicine
Jane Laurine Darville, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - health care administrator and community health specialist
Andre De Grasse, C.M., O.Ont. (Markham, Ontario) - Seven-time Olympic medallist
Mark Dobbin, C.M. (Portugal Cove–St. Philip’s, Newfoundland and Labrador) - Founder of Killick Capital Inc., is a dedicated investor, mentor and entrepreneurship advocate
Chris Dodd, C.M. (Edmonton, Alberta) - Deaf performing artist, playwright and accessibility advocate
Sheila Dawn Early, C.M. (Surrey, British Columbia) - Forensic nursing
Kathleen Fox, C.M. (Gatineau, Québec) - Aviator, chair of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada
Michelle Frances Good, C.M. (Maple Creek, Saskatchewan) Indigenous activist, lawyer and storyteller.
Elly Gotz, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Holocaust survivor and educator
Gerald W. Grandey, C.M., S.O.M. (Denver, Colorado) - Former CEO of Cameco
Reesa Greenberg, C.M. (Ottawa, Ontario) - Art history and museology, feminist and exhibition studies
Hans-Jürgen Greif, C.M. (Québec, Quebec) - Professor, author, multilingualism promoter
James C. Hathaway, C.M. (Vancouver, British Columbia) - Scholar of public international law
James William Hewitt, C.M. (Dorval, Quebec) - Hewitt Equipment Limited, philanthropist
Charles A. Hopkins, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Educator in sustainable development
Ian Ihor Orest Ihnatowycz, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Philanthropy, Ihnatowycz Family Foundation
Eddy Isaacs, C.M. (Edmonton, Alberta) - Energy research
Alfred Morris Kwinter, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Personal injury, property loss and insurance lawyer, director of the Advocates’ Society
Gillian Kydd, C.M. (Roberts Creek, British Columbia) - Educator, co-founder of the Open Minds/Beyond the Classroom Network
Martha Langford, C.M. (Montréal, Quebec) - Art historian and scholar in the field of photographic arts
Roger J. Lewis, C.M. (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia) - Mi'kmaq historian and archaeologist
William Joseph Logan, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Pediatric neurology
Elizabeth MacLeod, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Children’s author
Allison Joan McGeer, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Epidemiological policy advisor
Irene Y. McNeill, C.M. (Aurora, Ontario) - Helped develop the sport of sailing in Canada
Rassi Nashalik, C.M. (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories) - Inaugural host of CBC’s Igalaaq, the first Inuktitut-language daily television newscast
Pamela Joan Newall, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Forensic science
Brenda Okorogba, C.M. (Ottawa, Ontario) - Champions equitable access to education and workforce opportunities for diverse communities
Patricia O’Malley, C.M. (Stratford, Ontario) - Chartered professional accountant
Brendan John Paddick, C.M. (Freeport, Bahamas and Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador) - Entrepreneur and executive, co-founder of the Dollar A Day Foundation
Susan Phillips, C.M. (Ottawa, Ontario) - Professor, founded Canada’s only graduate program in philanthropy
Alamin Proton Rahman, C.M., O.N.L.(St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador) - Genomics expert, professor
James Retallack, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Scholar of modern German history
Jean Robert, C.M. (Québec, Quebec) - Educator and community leader, advocate for English‑language services in Quebec
Whitney Michelle Rockley, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Co-founder of McRock Capital, first woman to chair the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association
Leonard Schein, C.M. (Vancouver, British Columbia) - founded Festival Cinemas, the Vancouver International Film Festival, and Alliance Atlantis Cinemas
Walter John Schroeder, C.M. and Maria Schroeder, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Philanthropists
Cindy Schwartz, C.M. (Montréal, Quebec) - Founder, artistic and general director of Les Muses, Canada’s first full-time professional performing arts training program for neurodivergent adults
Karl Tomm, C.M. (Calgary, Alberta) - Psychiatrist, university professor and founder of the Calgary Family Therapy Centre
Ziya Tong, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario and Vancouver, British Columbia) - Broadcaster, author, science journalist and filmmaker
Michael Jon Villeneuve, C.M. (Mountain, Ontario) - CEO of the Canadian Nurses Association
Della Wilkinson, C.M. (Ottawa, Ontario) - RCMP research scientist
John Mark Willinsky, C.M. (Vancouver, British Columbia and San Francisco, California) - Founder of Public Knowledge Project
From their website: Begun in the 1980's out of a desire to help one family with a terminally ill child, the TENDER WISHES FOUNDATION has grown to seek out and grant wishes to children in the Niagara Region who suffer from a potentially life-threatening illness.
The Hamilton Blues Lovers (HBL) want to showcase a deserving local charity every week. HBL is not affiliated with these charities nor does it fund raise for them.
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