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CANADIAN SWEETHEART Maillardville’s Lucille Starr

The popular singer Lucille Starr is known mostly for her huge hits, “When the Sun Says Hello to the Mountains” and “Jolie Jacqueline.” She was the first female country music singer in Canada to sell more than one million records, the first woman to be enshrined in the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame, and the first woman from Canada to

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