<P> The Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame honours Canadian country music artists, builders or broadcasters, living or deceased . The artifact collection includes extensive biographical information on the inductees . It is located in downtown Merritt, British Columbia at 2025 Quilchena Avenue . The facility is open year - round for custom tours, and is open to the public on seasonally adjusted hours . The initiative is governed by a not - for - profit society (the Canadian Country Music Heritage Society). </P> <P> In 2009, Cantos Music Foundation (now the National Music Centre) in Calgary, Alberta, became the owner of the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame's artifact collection after a transfer of ownership from Deb Buck, wife of deceased Hall of Fame member Gary Buck . The plaques of the inductees reside in the Hall of Honour at the Hall of Fame (in Merritt). For several years the Hall of Fame was based in a log building on the Calgary Stampede grounds . </P>

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