Track 25 Research notes
from Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame website
- 2003 inductee into Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame
- 1949, Wade Hemsworth
- written while in Northern Ontario working for Hydro Electric Commission survey crew, surveying the feasibility of a damn on the Little Abitibi River
- during summer months, people in Northern Ontario are besieged by black flies
- song launched Hemsworth's songwriting career
- Hemsworth's most beloved songs - Black Fly Song and Log Driver's Waltz - were both made into short animated films by the National Film Board of Canada
- the Blackfly animated short was nominated for an Oscar in 1992
- cover artists: Rick Avery, Judy Greenhill, The McGarrigles, The Travellers
