Updated April 3rd at 6pm to add the following nominations:
Updated March 31st at 9pm to add the following nominations:
- Celeste Evans and Reveen The Impossiblist (Reveen Sr.)
Updated March 29 at 7am to add the following nominations:
- Greg Frewin and Mahdi Gilbert
Updated March 24 at 10am to add the following nominations:
- Billy Kidd, Carisa Hendrix, Joan Caesar, and Julie Eng
Updated March 23 at 9am add the following nominations:
- Alain Choquette, David Drake, Mickey Hades, and Shin Lim
Updated March 23 at 7am add the following overnight nominations:
- Bob Farmer, Carl Coultier, Francis Martineau, Gary Ouelette, Howard P. Lions, Mel Stover, Romaine, Roy Cotte, Tom Ransom, Tony Eng, Willis Kinney
Updated at 12:15pm to add:
- Additional submissions: Bedros "Spidey" Akkelian, Bill Abbott, Bobby Motta, Dale Harney, Eric Leclerc, Johnny Giordmaine, Juliana Chen, Leon Mandrake, Sid Lorraine, Stewart James, Ron Leonard, and Vincent C
Updated at 10:15am to add:
- Additional submissions: Darcy Oake, Luc Langevin, Murray Hatfield, Ross Bertram, Tom Auburn
- The following names have been submitted for consideration: Chris Ramsay, Dai Vernon, David Acer, David Ben, Doug Henning, Gary Kurtz, James Randi, Jay Sankey, Martin Nash, Richard Sanders, Shawn Farquhar
Complete list of nominations received (alphabetical by first name):
- Alain Choquette
- Bedros "Spidey" Akkelian
- Bill Abbott
- Billy Kidd
- Bob Farmer
- Bobby Motta
- Carisa Hendrix
- Carl Coultier
- Celeste Evans
- Chris Ramsay
- Dai Vernon
- Dale Harney
- Darcy Oake
- David Acer
- David Ben
- David Drake
- Doug Henning
- Francis Martineau
- Eric Leclerc
- Gary Kurtz
- Gary Ouelette
- Greg Frewin
- Howard P. Lions
- James Randi
- Jay Sankey
- Joan Caesar
- Joel Machtinger
- Johnny Giordmaine
- Juliana Chen
- Julie Eng
- Leon Mandrake
- Luc Langevin
- Mahdi Gilbert
- Martin Nash
- Mel Stover
- Mickey Hades
- Murray Hatfield
- Reveen The Impossiblist (Reveen Sr.)
- Richard Sanders
- Romaine
- Ron Leonard
- Ross Bertram
- Roy Cotte
- Shawn Farquhar
- Shin Lim
- Sid Lorraine
- Stewart James
- Tom Auburn
- Tom Ransom
- Tony Eng
- Vincent C
- Willis Kinney
Devon Murphy recently posted the article, "Top Canadian Magicians and the Tricks That Made Them Famous," at the CBC website. Devon lists seven outstanding magicians (Julie Eng, Dai Vernon, Doug Henning, Billy Kidd, Mahdi Gilbert, Greg Frewin, and David Ben). (Of note, two of the seven on that list are recipients of the "Editor's Choice Award" in the Canada's Magic "Readers' Choice Award" festivities.)
Devon's list got me wondering.
Who do you, dear readers, consider to be the top 10 Canadian magicians of all time?
For those of you who don't like to be influenced by the decisions of others, we're going to start with a clean slate and let you choose all ten!
Submit your nominations in the comment form below,* by 11:59PM EDT on Friday April 6th. You may nominate as many Canadian magicians as you like. (Number of nominations don't influence the vote. If you see your choice(s) listed, please refrain from submitting duplicates.) Voting will open shortly thereafter.
What say you? Who are your top (living or dead) Canadian magicians of all time?
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