Petition to put Stan Rogers into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame Geist magazine is sponsering a petition to put Stan Rogers into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. His songs such as "Northwest Passage," "Barrett's Privateers" and "The Mary Ellen Carter" are Canadian classics. Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea; Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage And make a Northwest Passage to the sea. "Northwest Passage", written and recorded by Stan Rogers