While Lynn's life was well-chronicled in the book and movie "A Coal Miner's Daughter," Howatson says the story of the chicken coop is not very well known.
It was 1959 when Lynn performed in a chicken coop that had been converted to a dance hall by a homeowner and musician who "didn’t want to raise chickens," Hawston explains.
Lynn was living across the border in Washington state at the time and the chicken coop had evolved into a music venue.
And in the audience that day was a Canadian music producer.".
She was able to use that little record as a calling card in Nashville," Howatson tells CTV News.
The chicken coop was demolished in the 70s, but Howatson and others got a plaque installed by the city in 2012 that highlights the role the venue played in launching Lynn's country music career.
She would become the first woman ever named entertainer of the year at the genre's two major awards shows, first by the Country Music Association in 1972 and then by the Academy of Country Music three years later.
A plaque in Vancouver commemorates the country singer's 1959 trip to Vancouver, which led to her recording her first successful single.
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