A few Canucks have made the list - Sarah McLachlan, Diana Krall (and hubby Elvis Costello), and the wonderful Loreena McKennitt (whom I first heard when she was a busker in Toronto!) - but I want to add two more. Bruce Cockburn's Christmas includes only one piece that he wrote, the rest being highly traditional, but not always familiar; the Huron Carol, familiar to many Canadians, at least, is actually sung in Huron. Jane Siberry's Child, a double CD set from a live concert in New York City, includes a wide range of material, from the joyous "Shir Amami," a Hanukkah song, to Siberry's own quirky "Hockey," not exactly a Christmas hymn but ... seasonal, to one of the loveliest renditions of Holst's "In the Bleak Midwinter" that I have ever heard. Essential.