{"id":2176,"date":"2024-03-23T17:16:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T17:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccma.in-testing.co.uk\/?post_type=inductee&#038;p=2176"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:20:36","slug":"don-harron-46","status":"publish","type":"inductee","link":"https:\/\/soundcheck.ccma.org\/fr\/inductees\/don-harron-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Harron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Our front-end template -->\n<section\n    id=\"split-repeater-block_f153a22bdb89f432b15a5f4e95d42f94\" \n    class=\"split-repeater  py-[50px] lg:pt-[57px] lg:pb-[70px]\"\n>\n    <div class=\"site-container flex flex-col\">\n        <div class=\"intro-text\">\n                            <h2>Don Harron<\/h2>\n                                        <p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcheck.ccma.org\/inductees\/\">&lt; Back<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2010<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Born in Toronto on September 19, 1924, Don Harron&#8217;s show business career began with comedic facial contortions in grade school, which resulted in more than a few swift departures from class.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Don went pro at the age of ten as a cartoonist. His specialty: chalk caricatures of banquet guests for 15 bucks a pop!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His acting career began in 1936 with three radio appearances a week on the Canadian Radio Commission, the predecessor of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Don left acting because it took him away from after school sports; he didn&#8217;t act again until his return from a stint in RAF.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Seeking higher education, Don became a popular student at the University of Toronto where he regularly entertained his professors with essays pummeled with puns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: #000000; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;\">In 1980, Don Harron received the\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; color: #b99003; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gg.ca\/honour.aspx?id=730&amp;t=12&amp;ln=Harron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Order of Canada<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: #000000; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;\">Don Harron passed away on January 17, 2015 at the age of 91.<\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"split-repeater__blocks grid grid-cols-1\">\n                                    <div class=\"grid grid-cols-1 md:grid-cols-2\" style=\"background-color: #000000; color: #fff; \">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soundcheck.ccma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/46_Don_Harron.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white close-up photo of an older man with short hair resting his face on his hand, looking directly at the camera with a thoughtful expression.\" class=\" \">\n                        <div class=\"content-box \">\n                            <p>Don Harron&#8217;s remarkable talents have taken him from Stratford, Ontario to Broadway to the Old Vic stage in London. He was the first on Canadian radio and television, wrote an \u201cAnne of Green Gables Musical\u201d that is entering its 40th year, had successful runs as both a game and talk show host, wrote a dozen books, and was among the creative and comedic forces behind the long running Nashville based country\/comedy TV series, \u201cHee Haw\u201d. Don spent 18 of the show\u2019s 25 year run as his alter ego, \u201cCharlie Farquharson\u201d, who was first introduced to the unsuspecting public on the CBC in 1952.<\/p>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"featured_media":2133,"menu_order":16,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"inductee-category":[104],"class_list":["post-2176","inductee","type-inductee","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","inductee-category-all-artists"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Don Harron - https:\/\/soundcheck.ccma.org<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale:alternate\" content=\"en_ca\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Don Harron\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/soundcheck.ccma.org\/fr\/inductees\/don-harron-46\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"https:\/\/soundcheck.ccma.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CCMAOfficial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-04-27T16:20:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/soundcheck.ccma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/46_Don_Harron.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"263\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"271\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CCMAofficial\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soundcheck.ccma.org\\\/inductees\\\/don-harron-46\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soundcheck.ccma.org\\\/inductees\\\/don-harron-46\\\/\",\"name\":\"Don Harron - 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