Canada's Magic: Readers' Choice Awards

The Canada's Magic "Readers' Choice Inspirational Canadian Magician of the Year" award is intended to highlight and showcase the wonderful and diverse talent we proudly call Canadian. It's our hope that this annual tradition will assist in elevating the general public's awareness of all of our great magicians!

From the December 29th, 2022 blog post "2022 Readers' Choice award results":

Thank you to those who participated in the spirit in which the awards were intended:

a fun way to recognize and celebrate all of the wonderful things being done by the fabulous talent in our country!

Thank you to everyone who made the effort to nominate and to vote.

A special thank you to those who left comments articulating how the nominees inspire others within the magic community. Peer recognition is a tremendous gift.

This year brought out some of the best in the community. We won't name names because we weren't organized enough to ask for permission, but here are some of the heart-warming and fabulous behaviours we saw:

Upon accepting their nomination, at least one nominee immediately made a nomination of their own.
At least one of the nominees, when spreading the word about the voting, focused on the fact that this event was set up with the intent of recognizing those who inspire others in the magic community. And then they encouraged their followers to read about all of the nominees.
At least three of the nominees showed their support for nominees other than themselves on social media.

Bravo! This type of behaviour is at the heart of what makes the Canadian magic community wonderful!

Paraphrasing one of our readers,

The real award is the friends we made along the way.

Indeed!

	Readers' Choice	Editor's Choice	Beacons of Inspiration
2022	Ryan Edwards	Shawn Farquhar	Scott Baird, Dave Curran, Colin Geddes, Chris Gowen, Ryan Michael, Kelvin Ng, Ryan Pilling, Jason Verners, and Trevor & Lorena Watters
2021	Gwyn Auger tied with Ryan Joyce & Graeme Reed	Chris Ramsay, Eric Leclerc, Wes Barker, and Alex Boyer	Scott Baird, Jean Deshaies, Chris Gowen, and Paul Romhany
2020	Carisa Hendrix, Miranda Allen, and Richard Lee	Alex Zander	Gwyn Auger, Ryan Joyce and Graeme Reed, Magicana, Phil Pivnick, and Romaine
2019	Mike Norden	Ted and Marion Outerbridge	Gwyn Auger, James Harrison, Carisa Hendrix, Ryan Joyce, Ken McCreedy, The Sentimentalists (Steffi Kay and Chris Mysterion), and Anastasia Synn
2018	Jeff Christensen	Mike Segal	James Alan, Jonah Babins, Ryan Brown, Greg Frewin, Carisa Hendrix, and Kent Wong
2017	Ben Train	Julie Eng	Ryan Brown, Neil Croswell, Caiden Finch, and Murray & Teresa Hatfield
2016	Steven Lafond	Mahdi Gilbert	Murray & Teresa Hatfield and Matt DiSero