Bossin, Bob

BOSSIN, Bob, folk singer (b 5 Jan 1946, Toronto). In the early 1970s he was a founder of the legendary Canadian folk group Stringband and in 1974 he wrote its biggest hit, "Dief Will Be the Chief Again," a paean to Canada's 13th prime minister, John Diefenbaker. Bossin left Ontario in 1980 to reside in VANCOUVER, and when Stringband dissolved in the mid-1980s he concocted Bossin's Home Remedy for Nuclear War, a satirical one-man musical revue. He moved to GABRIOLA ISLAND in 1991 and in 1994...

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