Mark Emerson Donnelly (born February 29, 1960) is a Canadian singer noted for singing the national anthem " O Canada" at the National Hockey League's Vancouver Canucks home games.

Biography

Donnelly was born and raised in Vancouver and

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, playing ice hockey from the age of 12. After earning a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of British Columbia, he began singing national anthems for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League while working for a Scranton, Pennsylvania parish. After he and his family moved back to Vancouver, he started doing the same for the Vancouver Canucks beginning in 2001. He made a cameo appearance in the TV show ''

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'', playing an opera singer in the

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premiere episode "Extradition: British Columbia", and then another cameo appearance as a singer in the final episode "Apotheosis" of the science fiction series ''

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''. He, his wife Catherine, and their nine children currently reside in White Rock, British Columbia. His brother, Lawrence, is the priest of Sts. Joachim and Ann Parish in Aldergrove. He is a staunch supporter of the Canadian

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movement. On December 4, 2020, the Vancouver Canucks cut ties with Donnelly, via Twitter, after it came out that he planned on singing at an

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rally.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Donnelly, Mark 1960 births Canadian tenors Musicians from Vancouver Living people University of British Columbia alumni Vancouver Canucks