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This Section is about you - you were there, the horror stories, love stories, and the times you were so drunk, so stoned, and so angry at the world around you.

Whether your hair was shorn like a sheep on acid or your hair was long. The harassment was endless, and the scorn of society was bearing upon you constantly.

There were vegans, carnivores, and indifference; The psychics, the atheists, the science fiction fans, the mystics, wiccans, communistists, junkies, whores, saturday punks who lived with their parents in the burbs, the gays, the lesbians, artists, writers, musicians, poets, intelligencia, and the bums - punks were individuals who made a difference or didn't - punks the people in the scene.

Memorial Page
We would like to warn anyone who reads this page, you may find a friend's name mentioned here. The Canadian punk scene lost many people, and it may not be the best way to find out ...
Punk Bio :: Tim Crow
Tim Crow: Red Tide, Suburban Menace, Censored Chaos, Holy Shit Fanzine, Youth Plague Fanzine, and Manifesto Productions   Victoria, BC, Canada                                                              ...
Punk Bio: Gayle
I was one of the Anarchist types who used to put on 'benefit gigs' which were a good part of the early Punk scene in Van. They would all act as though we were 'exploiting' them, but ...
Tribute to Ray Condo :: By Dano
Where to start when it's a bio of Mr. Ray Condo...   I'm not the guy to do this but somebody has to do something until maybe Scott F., Ray's long time confidant, can contribute ...
Punk Bio :: Diane Pop
   Diane Pop- (POET)- Went to every single early Sturm Group gig.Poet in the scene, hung out at most of the clubs named here. Did a lot of readings at the beverly, and opened ...
Punk Bios: Bob Average
By Bob Average:   My name is Bob Average. I now live in Winnipeg, but during the 80-s I had the time of my life building and nurturing the St. John's punk scene.It all started ...
Punk Bio: Graham Thompkins
Part One: The Formative Years   To tell my history, I must first go briefly into my mother's history, as it is because of her that I am here. My mother grew up in a military ...
Brat X and Other Dead Toronto Punks
by S. Black (editted info from Todd.) Brat X is the most famous of Toronto's dead punks. I wish someone better informed would post an elegy here on Punk History Canada. Brat X ...
Chris Walter Bio
Chris Walter, the illegitimate son a transient serial killer, writes punk fiction books as quickly as dear old dad piled up the corpses. His underground publishing ...
Rip - Troy Shenfield
Name: Troy ShenfieldCity: Edmonton (Stony Plain)Contributer: Cheryl Mucha Troy was our friend. We grew up together as the only six punks in Stony Plain. Our gang was comprised of ...
Craig's (Phantom 309) Bio
I first got involved with 'Punk" music in the late 70's but in a roundabout way. I was into skateboarding (I lived in Nova Scotia) and Punk started to become a feature of that scene. ...
Sharon's Bio
Sharon came to Toronto in 1980 from a small town up north. She knew that she wanted to be a punk so when she noticed some hanging out in front of Domino's on Yonge St she went over ...
Fat Mikey (1962––1985)
Fat Mike was a two-hundred and thirty pound Native Canadian who began hanging out at our punk house on Beverley Street in Winnipeg in the early eighties. Punk was new to him, but ...
RIP Dimwit
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Punk Bio: Paul Balanchuk
I started goin to "punk ShowS"in about 1983 in EDMONTON,this was a time in this town when it was on the verge of moving past the drug addicts and hairstyle crowd.  It was a growin ...
Punk Bio: Nancy
my life did a 180 when my daughter was born back 13 yrs ago...since then i've been a dancer, dabbled in martial arts, meditation, healing & alt medicine, school, work, photography, ...
Jason Manglesen Bio
My name is Jason Mangelsen, but for most of my teen years and into my twenties I was known in various cities across Canada as SCUM. I was one of the street living, squat trashing, ...
Death Sentence :: by Chris Walter
Chris Walter, an ex-junkie and author of Punk Rules OK, lives under an East Vancouver bridge, where he subsists on wild game and scavenged pizza crusts. This excerpt is from his an ...