The new millennium came in with a loud bang for Stompin' Tom Connors, the most successful country artist in Canadian history and Dr. Stompin' Tom Connors to you, since he received an honorary doctor of law degree from the University of Toronto. This was not the only award bestowed upon the board-stomping fellow in the year 2000. He also received a Governor's General Performing Arts Award. This and the doctorate are among the first awards that Connors didn't ship back, as he has done with six Juno awards for Male Country Singer of the Year, and a 1998 Lifetime Achievement prize at the East Coast Music Awards. The Juno trophies, Canada's equivalent of a Grammy, were packed up and sent back to the office, because Connors said he never asked for them, while he asked that the Lifetime Achievement Award be re-dedicated to unsung heroes of the Canadian Maritime music industry.
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