Northwest Passage (album)

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Northwest Passage
Northwest Passage cover
Studio album by Stan Rogers
Released 1981
Genre Folk
Length 39:38
Label Fogarty's Cove Music
Producer(s) Paul Mills
Professional reviews
Stan Rogers chronology
Between the Breaks ... Live!
(1979)
Northwest Passage
(1981)
For the Family
(1983)


Northwest Passage is a 1981 (see 1981 in music) album by Stan Rogers.

[edit] Track listing

  1. Northwest Passage
  2. The Field Behind the Plow
  3. Night Guard
  4. Working Joe
  5. You Can't Stay Here
  6. The Idiot
  7. Lies
  8. Canol Road
  9. Free in the Harbour
  10. California

This is also a song by the late Stan Rogers, a well known Canadian singer/songwriter. It is based around the quest for the Northwest Passage, the fabled sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific Strait to the Beaufort Sea).

[edit] Features

Aside from featuring on the Stan Rogers album, of the same name, the song appeared as the finale of the last episode of Due South, as the two main Characters leave to find "The hand of Franklin, the reaching out one."