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Wilf Carter (born December 18, 1904 in Port
Hilford, Nova Scotia|Port Hilford, Nova Scotia,
Canada, died December 5, 1996 in Scottsdale,
Arizona), also known as Montana Slim, was a
Canadian country music singer and
Yodeling|yodeler. 

==Background==
In 1923, Carter moved west to Calgary, Alberta,
where he found work as a cowboy and made extra
money singing and playing his guitar. It was
during this time that he developed his own
yodeling style, sometimes called an "echo yodel"
or a "three-in-one". 

Carter performed his very first Radio
station|radio broadcast on CFCN in 1930. Two years
later, he was entertaining tourists as a trail
rider for the Canadian Pacific Railway. The
railroad company promoted horseback excursions
into the Canadian Rockies, and Carter soon became
popular. 

==Music career==
His popularity grew such that in 1933 he was hired
to be an entertainer on the maiden voyage of the
Great Britain|British ship S.S. Empress.  However,
on the way to the ship he stopped off in Montreal
and recorded two songs he had written: My Swiss
Moonlight Lullaby and The Capture of Albert
Johnson. By 1934 that record was a best-seller. By
1935 he was in New York City, performing on WABC
(AM)|WABC radio. And that same year someone tagged
him with the name "Montana Slim," and it stuck. 
"Montana" may have been chosen to give Carter a
more American-sounding name to make his music more
palatable to US audiences, and Montana is the
closest US State to Carter's then home of Alberta.
 Carter never lived in Montana.

In 1937 he left New York City and returned to
Calgary, where he bought a ranch. He continued to
appear on both United States|American and Canadian
radio shows, as well as doing live concerts. 
Carter seriously injured his back in a 1940 car
accident. He was unable to tour regularly for much
of the decade. He sold his ranch in 1949 and moved
to a 180 acre (730,000m2) farm in New
Jersey. 

In 1952 he moved again, this time to Orlando,
Florida, and opened the Wilf Carter Motor Lodge.
That venture only lasted two years before he
closed it.

==Career highlights== 
In 1953 Carter started touring with his own show
called, The Family Show With The Folks You Know.
His daughters, Carol and Sheila, worked with him
as dancers and back-up singers. At the Canadian
National Exhibition bandstand in Toronto, they set
an attendance record when they performed for
50,000 people in one week. 

1964 saw the first time he entertained at the
Calgary Stampede. He also became one of the most
requested guests on the TV show hosted by Canadian
country music|country singer Tommy Hunter. 

In 1971, Carter was inducted into the Nashville
Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1985 he was also
inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. 

Carter recorded his last album, Whatever Happened
to All Those Years, in 1988. He retired soon
thereafter, mainly because he was losing his
hearing.