Recipients
of the Manitoba Entertainer of the Year
Award 1980
Bill and Sue-On Hillman are
western Manitoba music royalty.
Either under their own names or as THE WESTERN
UNION, the Brandon-based duo, who
taught high school by day (both went on to
lecture at Brandon University) and rocked
on weekends and summers, have released
more than a dozen albums and toured the
world in a career spanning some 50 years,
beginning with Strathclair-born Bill
Hillman’s mid-’60s band THE DOVERMEN. -- John
Einarson, Winnipeg Free Press May 8, 2016
Bill and Sue-On Hillman have
an extraordinary website chronicling their
lives over 6 decades. One of the
very first music sites on the internet
under the Angelfire banner in 1996, it has
since moved to its own domain.
Created and continuously maintained by
Bill Hillman personally, the site now has
quite literally thousands of pages and
photos. The couple has recorded
hundreds of songs - in both England and on
their own Maple Grove label - and most are
available for listening online.
In addition to covering the musical
careers of Bill and Sue-On Hillman, there
are separate sections on family, travel,
heritage, military, interviews,
documentaries, political matters, other
artists, both local and international,
plus more. Near the bottom of the
main page on the site is the Google search
feature specific to this website to assist
with locating anything on their pages.
