Alberta troubadour, The Great Speckled Bird founder, and Canadian singer-songwriting legend, Ian Tyson, is gone at 89.
Ian Dawson Tyson was born in Victoria on September 25, 1933, was raised in Duncan B.C. He made his singing debut at the Heidelberg Café in Vancouver in 1956 playing with a rock and roll band, The Sensational Stripes. He graduated from the Vancouver School of Art in 1958. He was…