Deerhurst Resort
Deerhurst Resort
Huntsville, Ontario
The Muskoka resort where she sang in the late 1980s, now with hotel rooms, lodge suites and lakeside lodges. A deposit of one night is taken on booking.
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Timmins · Huntsville · Nashville · Las Vegas · Glastonbury
Shania Twain
She grew up in a gold-mining town, singing in its bars after closing time. The town later built a museum of her, and sold it for a gold mine. These are the places that are left.
Timmins, Ontario · the 1970s and early 1980s
Twenty dollars, midnight to one.
A gold town’s bars.
From the age of eight she sang in Timmins bars to help pay the bills, often for CA$20, between midnight and 1am, after the bar had stopped serving drink.
Born Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ontario, in 1965, she moved to her mother’s home town of Timmins as a child after her parents divorced. Her mother married Jerry Twain, an Ojibwe man from the nearby Mattagami First Nation, who adopted the girls; their surname became Twain.
The family had little money and food was often scarce. Her stepfather was violent towards her mother, and she saw it from a young age.
If any of this is close to home, you can talk to someone: Kids Help Phone 1-800-668-6868 (Canada) · National Domestic Abuse Helpline 0808 2000 247 (UK) · National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-7233 (United States).
She disliked those bars, but has called them her own kind of performing-arts school. At Timmins High and Vocational School she sang with a local covers band, Longshot, and she graduated in June 1983.
A gold-mining city in northern Ontario; the photograph shows the Hollinger open pit behind downtown. The bars she sang in are not named by the sources, so none is shown.
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Huntsville, Muskoka · from late 1987
Three siblings, one resort stage.
Nashville was in the audience.
On 1 November 1987 her mother and stepfather were killed in a car accident north of Wawa, Ontario. She went back to Timmins for her younger siblings and moved them to Huntsville, supporting them by singing at Deerhurst.
There she grew from a barroom singer into a theatrical performer, and Nashville music executives saw her perform at the resort.
Deerhurst built up its entertainment programme in the 1980s, and Eileen Twain was one of the singers on its stage. The resort opened in 1896; it was the first big resort on a northern Muskoka lake, reached only by steamboat.
A working lakeside resort, about ten minutes’ drive east of Huntsville off Highway 60 and just under three hours from Toronto. Ontario Northland buses run to Huntsville.
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The Masterfonics Tracking Room, Nashville · from late 1996
One fiddle wasn’t big enough.
Four fiddles in unison.
An empty floor: chalk marks and microphone stands. Bring the players in.
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She and Lange felt the fiddles did not sound big enough, so Lange brought in four players, Rob Hajacos, Joe Spivey, Glen Duncan and Aubrey Haynie, to play the same part in unison.
For some songs each fiddle had a microphone six to eight inches away; for others all four stood in a semicircle around two Neumann KM 582 microphones.
Engineer Bob Bullock said it made them sound big without being cluttered, unlike one player doubling or tripling a part.
Come On Over’s tracks were recorded over three weeks at the Masterfonics Tracking Room in Nashville, from late 1996.
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Nashville and Toronto · 1993 to 1999
Tracks in Nashville, voices in Toronto.
Forty million copies.
- 3 weeks recording the tracks at Masterfonics
- 40m+ copies sold
- 12 singles from one album
- 1998–99 the Come On Over Tour
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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville · 222 Rep. John Lewis Way South, Nashville
Mercury Nashville signed her in 1991. Her first album came out in April 1993 and sold poorly at first.
Mutt Lange saw her video; they wrote by telephone, met for the first time at Nashville’s Fan Fair in June 1993, and married that December.
Come On Over’s tracks were recorded over three weeks at the Masterfonics Tracking Room in Nashville, from late 1996.
Open daily, 9am to 5pm, in downtown Nashville.
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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Downtown Nashville · Open daily, 9am–5pm
Where she announced her first Las Vegas residency in June 2011.
Plan a visit
Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto · CBC Broadcast Centre, Front Street West, Toronto
In the mid-1980s she had moved to Toronto, working a day job and singing at night.
She and Robert John “Mutt” Lange recorded Come On Over’s background vocals here.
An international version, released on 16 February 1998, toned down the fiddles and steel guitar.
A concert studio inside the CBC building on Front Street, a short walk from Canada’s Walk of Fame.
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The album came out on 4 November 1997. It has sold more than 40 million copies: the best-selling studio album by a woman and the best-selling country album.
Up! · 19 November 2002
One album, three discs.
Choose a colour.
Red disc: The pop version.
Up! came out on 19 November 2002 in three versions: pop on a red disc, country on a green disc and, on a blue disc, a version in the style of Indian film music. It went straight to number one on the Billboard 200, and made her the only woman with three diamond albums in a row in the United States.
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Compass Point Studios, Nassau · West Bay Street, New Providence, Bahamas
Its booklet lists writing and recording all over the world, Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas among them.
Chris Blackwell built the studio in Nassau in 1977.
It closed in September 2010.
The studio closed in 2010 and is not open to visitors, so it is not on the map. The photograph is from 2014.
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Timmins and Toronto · 2001 to 2014
A museum of her, in a gold town.
Sold for an open pit.
- 2001The city-owned Shania Twain Centre opened on 30 June 2001, showing memorabilia and awards she had lent it.
- 2004On 2 November 2004 she came to declare it open, in front of hundreds of fans; some had queued for up to 20 hours.
- 15,000It was expected to draw 50,000 visitors a year and never passed 15,000.
- 2012In May 2012 her management had her things taken back to Las Vegas.
- $5mThe land and building were sold to Goldcorp for $5 million, half what the building had cost, for an open-pit gold mine on the site.
- 2014It closed on 1 February 2013 and was demolished on 3 December 2014.
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The Shania Twain Centre (demolished) · Timmins, Ontario
Gone: the building was demolished in 2014 and the land sold to a gold-mining company, so it is not on the map. The photograph is Shania Twain Drive in 2006.
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Canada’s Walk of Fame · King Street West and Simcoe Street, Toronto
She was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2003.
Its maple-leaf stars are set into the pavements of King and Simcoe Streets, in front of Roy Thomson Hall and the Princess of Wales and Royal Alexandra theatres.
On the pavements outside Roy Thomson Hall and the theatres along King Street. Free, at any hour; the pin is the hall, not her leaf.
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Nashville and the Las Vegas Strip · 2011 to 2025
A voice brought back.
Three residencies, two theatres.
After a long break she said that Lyme disease and dysphonia had badly weakened her singing voice.
On 8 June 2011, at a press conference at the Country Music Hall of Fame, she announced a two-year residency at Caesars Palace.
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- 105 shows of Still the One
- 38 shows of Let’s Go!
- 9 final shows of Come On Over, early 2025
The Colosseum at Caesars Palace · Caesars Palace, Las Vegas Strip
Shania: Still the One ran here from 1 December 2012 to 13 December 2014: 105 shows.
The Colosseum opened in 2003 and seats about 4,100.
A working theatre inside Caesars Palace; buy a ticket for a show to go in.
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Caesars Palace
Shows at the Colosseum
Las Vegas Strip
The theatre of Still the One. This season’s listings include Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts and Thomas Rhett.
See the shows
PH Live at Planet Hollywood · Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas Strip
Let’s Go! opened here, when it was the Zappos Theater, on 6 December 2019 and, after a pandemic pause, ended on 10 September 2022, after 38 shows.
One dollar from each ticket went to her children’s charity, Shania Kids Can.
Come On Over, her third Las Vegas residency, opened here in May 2024, with nine final shows in January and February 2025.
The theatre opened in 1976 as the Aladdin Theatre and has been called PH Live since August 2024.
A theatre inside Planet Hollywood, a little south of Caesars Palace on the Strip; open for shows.
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The Legends slot.
Something you have to earn.
On Sunday 30 June 2024 she played Glastonbury’s traditional Sunday Legends slot on the Pyramid Stage.
She said the booking felt like an accolade, something you have to earn. Lindsay Ell played in her band that day.
A working farm: the stage stands in a field that is open only to festival ticket holders in festival years.
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Where it is now
8 places you can visit, in Ontario, Nashville, Las Vegas and Somerset. The Shania Twain Centre was demolished and Compass Point Studios has closed, so neither is on the map.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
Area reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A gold-mining city in northern Ontario; the photograph shows the Hollinger open pit behind downtown. The bars she sang in are not named by the sources, so none is shown.
Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working lakeside resort, about ten minutes’ drive east of Huntsville off Highway 60 and just under three hours from Toronto. Ontario Northland buses run to Huntsville.
Downtown Timmins from the air, with the Hollinger open-pit mine behind, August 2026. Photograph: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0. Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0 Timmins, Cochrane District, Ontario
Timmins, Ontario
Born Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ontario, in 1965, she moved to her mother’s home town of Timmins as a child after her parents divorced.
A gold-mining city in northern Ontario; the photograph shows the Hollinger open pit behind downtown. The bars she sang in are not named by the sources, so none is shown.
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Deerhurst Resort on Peninsula Lake, Huntsville, in 2009. Photograph: Paste, CC BY-SA 3.0. Paste · CC BY-SA 3.0 1235 Deerhurst Drive, Huntsville, Muskoka
Deerhurst Resort, Huntsville
On 1 November 1987 her mother and stepfather were killed in a car accident north of Wawa, Ontario.
A working lakeside resort, about ten minutes’ drive east of Huntsville off Highway 60 and just under three hours from Toronto. Ontario Northland buses run to Huntsville.
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Sleep by the lake.
The Muskoka resort whose stage she sang on.
Deerhurst Resort
Deerhurst Resort
Huntsville, Ontario
The Muskoka resort where she sang in the late 1980s, now with hotel rooms, lodge suites and lakeside lodges. A deposit of one night is taken on booking.
Book a stayGo there
Walk in.
The Country Music Hall of Fame, the Colosseum’s shows, the Strip.
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Downtown Nashville · Open daily, 9am–5pm
Where she announced her first Las Vegas residency in June 2011.
Plan a visitCaesars Palace
Shows at the Colosseum
Las Vegas Strip
The theatre of Still the One. This season’s listings include Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts and Thomas Rhett.
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Deerhurst this winter; Glastonbury in 2027.
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Two books and a record.
Her autobiography, a biography, and Come On Over on vinyl.
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From This Moment On
Shania Twain
Her autobiography, published in 2011.
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Shania Twain: The Biography
Robin Eggar
A biography, first published in 2001.
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Come On Over
Shania Twain · LP, B0037898-01, 2023
A 2023 vinyl pressing of the 1997 album.
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Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
10 of 10 places · 18 of 18 Moments
Timmins, Ontario
Timmins, Cochrane District, Ontario
Midnight sets in Timmins bars
From the age of eight she sings in bars after they stop serving, for about CA$20 a night, to help with the bills.
Longshot
At Timmins High she sings with a local covers band.
The Shania Twain Centre (demolished)
Timmins, Ontario
The Centre opens
Timmins opens a museum of her things; she declares it open in person three years later.
Sold for a gold mine
Her things go back to Las Vegas; the Centre is sold for an open pit and closes.
Deerhurst Resort, Huntsville
1235 Deerhurst Drive, Huntsville, Muskoka
The Deerhurst stage
Raising her younger siblings in Huntsville, she sings at Deerhurst, where Nashville executives see her.
Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto
CBC Broadcast Centre, Front Street West, Toronto
Background vocals in Toronto
She and Lange record the album’s backing vocals at the Glenn Gould Studio.
Come On Over
The album comes out; over 40 million copies follow.
Canada’s Walk of Fame
King Street West and Simcoe Street, Toronto
A maple leaf on King Street
She is inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame.
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville
222 Rep. John Lewis Way South, Nashville
Mercury Nashville
Signed in 1991; a first album in April 1993.
Fan Fair
She meets Mutt Lange for the first time; they marry in December.
Three weeks at Masterfonics
Come On Over’s tracks are recorded in Nashville.
Four fiddles in unison
Four players play the same part, close-miked or in a semicircle round two microphones.
An announcement in Nashville
At the Country Music Hall of Fame she announces two years at Caesars Palace.
Compass Point Studios, Nassau
West Bay Street, New Providence, Bahamas
Up!, in three colours
Red for pop, green for country, blue for Indian film music; Compass Point is one of its studios.
The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas Strip
Still the One
Her first Las Vegas residency: 105 shows.
PH Live at Planet Hollywood
Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas Strip
Let’s Go!
Her second residency, at the Zappos Theater.
Come On Over, in Las Vegas
A third residency, named after the album, in the same theatre.
The Pyramid Stage, Worthy Farm
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset
The Legends slot
Sunday afternoon on the Pyramid Stage.