Canadian Pioneers

Canadian Pioneers

This collection honours the trailblazers—the artists who dared to do something different and, in many cases, were the first to do it in Canadian music. From genre-defining innovators to cultural groundbreakers, Canadian Pioneers celebrates those who opened doors, broke rules, and carved out new paths with originality, courage, and vision. Their contributions helped shape the sound of Canada—and inspired generations to come.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Still Here The First Cut Is The Deepest
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) O.J. Abbott - An Old Man He Courted Me Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Winston Hewitt You're the One I Love Pretty Brown Eyes
Yank Barry I'll Still Be Remembering You The Diary of Mr. Gray
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Outro & Cut Off (Clean) The First Cut Is The Deepest
Ivan Burgess The Call (Gene MacLellan) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Chevy Dirt Gas Operator Western Civilization
Northern Haze Nutaraq ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
John Oswald Pretender (Oparton - Oswald) Plunderphonics
Keatniks Bumble Boogie ST
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Cut Off (Unclean) The First Cut Is The Deepest
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Spice This! The First Cut Is The Deepest
A Tribe Called Red Native puppy love ST
Chevy Dirt G.T.O. Western Civilization
Winston Hewitt Burning Inside Snapshot
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Free The First Cut Is The Deepest
A Tribe Called Red Munchi -Shottas (A Tribe Called Red SocaCore remix) ST
Al Oster Next Boat Yukon Gold
Yank Barry Act 1: (Stereophonic) Mr. Gray The Diary of Mr. Gray
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Time is Now The First Cut Is The Deepest
Borealis Tomorrow Morning Sons of the Sea
Get Loose Crew Wannabe (dub) ST
Willie Dunn The Little Big Horn Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8
Winston Hewitt It's Too Late Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Get Loose Crew Protocol of Rap ST
Chevy Dirt Shake Me Up Western Civilization
Winston Hewitt Do You Ever Feel Like Crying Snapshot
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Ripped Mee Off The First Cut Is The Deepest
Winston Hewitt For You Love: Every Beat of My Heart; What's Your Name; Sweets For My Sweet; If it Don't Work Out Full of Love
Winston Hewitt Someone Loves You Honey Full of Love
Ivan Burgess Mon Pays (Gilles Vigneault) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Borealis Higher Sons of the Sea
Keatniks King of the Road ST
Winston Hewitt You Don't Have to Say I Love You
Willie Dunn Poundmaker Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Uncle Nigel The First Cut Is The Deepest
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Come Rain or Come Shine Sings
Winston Hewitt Get on the Scene Snapshot
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Gone with the Wind Sings
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Nothin' At All (with George Banton) The Black Tie Affair
Winston Hewitt Our Love Is Fallin' Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) STHNLA Motherlove
Winston Hewitt Do You Remember Snapshot
Chevy Dirt No Foolin' Around Western Civilization
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) These Foolish Things Sings
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Keatniks I Could Easily Fall In Love With You ST
Larena Clark Rattle on the Stovepipe A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Yank Barry Introduction to the Diary of Mr. Gray (78rpm monophonic) The Diary of Mr. Gray
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight it (Part Two) Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Angels Hair Mother Love Suite: Intro; Allementry; Plunket Pastoral; Two Buried Texts Part I - Silver Lake Six; Two Buried Texts Part II - Silver Lake Six; A Little Love Poem for Your Lobes to Nibble On; Visitation; Cada Motherlove
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Poetry is Black The Black Tie Affair
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Mic Mechanism Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Winston Hewitt Can't You Hear Me Snapshot
Winston Hewitt Let Us Work Together Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Child in Me Motherlove
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Winston Hewitt Say it's Allright Snapshot
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) The Happiest Girl in the World Sings
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Lady Luck (The Darkside) The First Cut Is The Deepest
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) M.L.’s Dream Motherlove
Irene McNeil Reviens Vers Moi (Return to Me) Mademoiselle Rythme
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) I'll Take Romance Sings
Winston Hewitt Lonely Street Reggae Medley
Ivan Burgess I Want to Live (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Winston Hewitt Just Let Me Be Just You and Me
Winston Hewitt Jane I'm Not the Same I Love You
Northern Haze Sinnaktuq ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Keatniks Memphis ST
Keatniks As Long As I Have You ST
Winston Hewitt No Other Girl I Love You
Borealis Old Age Sons of the Sea
Winston Hewitt Keep Moving I Love You
Ivan Burgess When My Love Comes (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) LTD's on the Wheels of Fortune Symphony in Effect
Borealis In the End Sons of the Sea
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Northern Haze Puigo ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It (Part 2) I Love You
A Tribe Called Red General Generations ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Just Swingin Symphony in Effect
Northern Haze Uvaguk ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It (Part 2) I Love You
Al Oster I Wonder What Your Eyes Will Say Yukon Gold
Keatniks That's My Girl ST
Al Oster Yukon Gold Yukon Gold
Winston Hewitt Dreaming of You Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Borealis The Politician Sons of the Sea
Winston Hewitt There's No Love in the World Today Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Two Tones Children Go Where I Send Thee Live at the Village Corner
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Cover Girl The First Cut Is The Deepest
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Watchin' Zeros Grow The Black Tie Affair
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) John Leahy - The Banks of Inverness Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Winston Hewitt The Same One Full of Love
Keatniks Laudie, Laudie Miss Claudie ST
Winston Hewitt I'm Not the One to Cry Over You Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Just One of Those Things Sings
Larena Clark I Once Loved a Lass A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Ivan Burgess Minstrel of the Dawn (Gordon Lightfoot) Minstrel Of The Dawn

FEATURED

Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) - Ontario Ballads & Folksongs

Lumsden, Saskatchewan → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) - The First Cut Is The Deepest

Kingston, Jamaica→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) - Symphony in Effect

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

A Tribe Called Red - ST

Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Al Oster - Yukon Gold

Vanguard, Saskatchewan - Langley, British Columbia - Whitehorse, Yukon, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) - Sings

Mill Village, Nova Scotia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Northern Haze - ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ

Igloolik, Nunavut, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Larena Clark - A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario

Lake Simcoe, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Bobby Kris and the Imperials - She Belongs to Me b/w A Year From Today

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) - Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) - The Black Tie Affair

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ivan Burgess - Minstrel Of The Dawn

Bermuda - Ottawa, Ontario - Antigonish, Nova Scotia - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

John Oswald - Plunderphonics

Kitchener, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Da Slyme - ST

St. John's, Newfoundland

FEATURED

Willie Dunn - Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Winston Hewitt - Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Winston Hewitt - Reggae Medley

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Winston Hewitt - Pretty Brown Eyes

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Winston Hewitt - Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Winston Hewitt - Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Winston Hewitt - Snapshot

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Winston Hewitt - I Love You

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Winston Hewitt - Just You and Me

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Winston Hewitt - Full of Love

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Borealis - Sons of the Sea

St. John's, Newfoundland, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Two Tones - Live at the Village Corner

Orillia, Ontario (Gordon Lightfoot); Wasago, Ontario (Terry Whelan)

FEATURED

Chevy Dirt - Western Civilization

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) - Motherlove

FEATURED

Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys - Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel

Ethelbert, Manitoba - Hamilton, Ontario - Abbotsford, British Columbia

FEATURED

Sugluk - Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy

Ontario Ballads & Folksongs

Edith Fowke - Ontario Ballads & Folksongs

Edith Fowke

The First Cut Is The Deepest

Symphony in Effect

Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)

Commemorative Stamp Canada Post 2026

Commemorative Stamp Canada Post 2026

ST

A Tribe Called Red

Maestro Fresh Wes - Symphony in Effect LABEL 02

Maestro Fresh Wes - Symphony in Effect LABEL 01

Maestro Fresh Wes - Symphony in Effect BACK

Maestro Fresh Wes - Symphony in Effect SIGNED COVER INSERT

Yukon Gold

Al Oster - Yukon Gold LABEL 01

Al Oster - Yukon Gold LABEL 02

Al Oster - Yukon Gold

Oster, Al

Dunn, Willie

Dunn, Willie

Dunn, Willie

Dunn, Willie

Anthony, Marge (Marjorie Anthony Linden)

Sings

ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ

Northern Haze

Canadian Recording Studio

Northern Haze

Northern Haze-LABEL 02

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