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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ian Tyson CM, AOE is a Canadian singer-songwriter, best known for his song Four Strong Winds. He was also one half of the duo Ian & Sylvia. Tyson was born to British immigrants in Victoria in 1933, and grew up in Duncan B.C. A rodeo rider in his late teens and early twenties, he took up the guitar while recovering from an injury he sustained in a fall. He made his singing debut at the Heidelberg Caf? in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1956 and played with a rock and roll band, The Sensational Stripes. After graduation from the Vancouver School of Art in 1958, Tyson moved to Toronto, Ontario where he commenced a job as a commercial artist. There he performed in local clubs and in 1959 began to sing on occasion with Sylvia Fricker. By early 1959 Tyson and Fricker were performing part-time at the Village Corner as Ian & Sylvia. The pair became a full-time musical act in 1961 and married four years later...