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
Irene McNeil Noël en Italie Mademoiselle Rythme
John Oswald Pretender (Oparton - Oswald) Plunderphonics
Irene McNeil Rock n' roll cha cha cha Mademoiselle Rythme
A Tribe Called Red Munchi -Shottas (A Tribe Called Red SocaCore remix) ST
Two Tones Calypso Baby Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt I'm So Glad I Found You Just You and Me
Winston Hewitt Do You Remember Snapshot
Irene McNeil Reviens Vers Moi (Return to Me) Mademoiselle Rythme
Winston Hewitt I Love You Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Fortissimo Symphony in Effect
Winston Hewitt Tell the Devil Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
A Tribe Called Red Electric pow wow drum ST
Winston Hewitt Burning Inside Snapshot
Ivan Burgess Shadowy Street (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Larena Clark Thyme ‘tis a Pretty Flower A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Irene McNeil Petit à Petit (Little by little) Chanson de Rosemarie McCoy et Kelly Owens, auxquels ont doit aussi "I beg of you" pour Elvis Presley Mademoiselle Rythme
Two Tones Copper Kettle Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt It Feel So Good Full of Love
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Said Chuck The First Cut Is The Deepest
Keatniks Bumble Boogie ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) On the Jazz Tip The Black Tie Affair
Winston Hewitt Stealin' Love Pretty Brown Eyes
Get Loose Crew Get Loos Crew Instrumental ST
Irene McNeil Dis-moi que tu m’aimes (Tell me that you love me) Mademoiselle Rythme
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It I Love You
Winston Hewitt No Other Girl I Love You
Winston Hewitt Keep Movin' (Formerly-Dynagroove) Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Northern Haze Qailaurit ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Winston Hewitt Just You and Me (version) Just You and Me
Winston Hewitt Let Us Work Together Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late
Chevy Dirt Gas Operator Western Civilization
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Free The First Cut Is The Deepest
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Al Oster Yukon Gold Yukon Gold
Northern Haze Sinnaktuq ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Da Slyme squeeze my blackhead ST
Winston Hewitt Sugar Sugar Pretty Brown Eyes
Winston Hewitt I'm Gonna Love You Tonight (version) Just You and Me
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Pray To Da East Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) The Party's Over Sings
Da Slyme Defacation On The Nation ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Let Your Backbone Slide (Power mix) Symphony in Effect
Northern Haze Quviasuk ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Northern Haze Trust ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Winston Hewitt I Need a Lot of Loving Just You and Me
Ivan Burgess Minstrel of the Dawn (Gordon Lightfoot) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Winston Hewitt Let Us Work Together Just You and Me
Al Oster Next Boat Yukon Gold
Two Tones Dark as a Dungeon Live at the Village Corner
Two Tones Fast Freight Live at the Village Corner
Two Tones Kilgarry Mountain Live at the Village Corner
Larena Clark The Old Country Fair A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Winston Hewitt Just You and Me Just You and Me
Chevy Dirt No Foolin' Around Western Civilization
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Our Love is Here to Stay Sings
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Your Daughter The First Cut Is The Deepest
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) LTD's on the Wheels of Fortune Symphony in Effect
Keatniks Here She Comes ST
Winston Hewitt I Love You I Love You
Winston Hewitt High School Dance Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Chevy Dirt G.T.O. Western Civilization
Keatniks Long Tall Sally ST
Winston Hewitt Roses Are Red Full of Love
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) The Maestro Zone The Black Tie Affair
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) O.J. Abbott - The Weaver Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Keatniks Memphis ST
Ivan Burgess Miss Marianne (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Winston Hewitt Pretty Brown Eyes Pretty Brown Eyes
Ivan Burgess Mon Pays (Gilles Vigneault) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Da Slyme Trudeau Sucks ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Just Swingin Symphony in Effect
Larena Clark The Faggot Cutter A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Larena Clark I Once Loved a Lass A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Al Oster One of These Days Yukon Gold
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Care for a Night Cap? The Black Tie Affair
Borealis The Politician Sons of the Sea
Get Loose Crew Protocol of Rap ST
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Stanley Baby - A Long Awa' Ship Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Al Oster Midnight Sun Rock Yukon Gold
Al Oster Yukon Cheechako Yukon Gold
Winston Hewitt Jane I'm Not the Same I Love You
Al Oster Waltz of the Yukon Yukon Gold
Borealis Higher Sons of the Sea
John Oswald Pocket (Basie - Oswald) Plunderphonics
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Poetry is Black The Black Tie Affair
Intersystems track 06 (entire side 2) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Keatniks As Long As I Have You ST
Ivan Burgess I Want to Live (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
A Tribe Called Red Look at This ST
Winston Hewitt Got the Fever Snapshot
Winston Hewitt There's No Love in the World Today Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) M.L.’s Dream Motherlove
Borealis Old Age Sons of the Sea
Yank Barry Introduction to the Diary of Mr. Gray (78rpm monophonic) The Diary of Mr. Gray
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Brown Sugar Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Chevy Dirt Little Loser Western Civilization
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Time is Now The First Cut Is The Deepest
Keatniks King of the Road ST
Winston Hewitt Keep Moving I Love You

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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