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
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Mrs. Tom Sullivan - I Love Little Willie Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Winston Hewitt I Love You More Than I Can Say Full of Love
Winston Hewitt Someone Loves You Honey Full of Love
Northern Haze Puigo ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Chevy Dirt Shake Me Up Western Civilization
Winston Hewitt I Love You I Love You
Winston Hewitt Let Us Work Together Just You and Me
Borealis Business Sons of the Sea
Winston Hewitt Say it's Allright Snapshot
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Time is Now The First Cut Is The Deepest
Keatniks That's My Girl ST
Ivan Burgess Outsider (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Two Tones The Fox Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt Dreaming of You Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Ivan Burgess Mon Pays (Gilles Vigneault) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Chevy Dirt No Foolin' Around Western Civilization
Winston Hewitt You Don't Have to Say I Love You
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Lady Luck (The Darkside) The First Cut Is The Deepest
Borealis Lucky Day Sons of the Sea
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Incest Song Motherlove
Chevy Dirt This Ain't Love Western Civilization
A Tribe Called Red Moombahwow ST
Winston Hewitt Keep Moving I Love You
Winston Hewitt Keep Moving I Love You
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) These Foolish Things Sings
Yank Barry I'll Still Be Remembering You The Diary of Mr. Gray
Al Oster Yukon Gold Yukon Gold
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Untouchable Symphony in Effect
Ivan Burgess Miss Marianne (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) The Other Woman Sings
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: The Album The First Cut Is The Deepest
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Mic Mechanism Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Tear it Up Symphony in Effect
Da Slyme squeeze my blackhead ST
Keatniks Long Tall Sally ST
Al Oster 918 Miles Yukon Gold
Winston Hewitt You're My Boopsy Pretty Brown Eyes
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do I Love You
Winston Hewitt High School Dance Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Winston Hewitt You're the One I Love Pretty Brown Eyes
Winston Hewitt Keep Movin' (Formerly-Dynagroove) Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Nothin' At All (with George Banton) The Black Tie Affair
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) The Maestro Symphony in Effect
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Fakin' Jamaican The First Cut Is The Deepest
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) The Party's Over Sings
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) It's a Great Day Sings
Larena Clark The Dapple Grey A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Chevy Dirt Convertible Car Western Civilization
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Let Your Backbone Slide (Power mix) Symphony in Effect
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) I'll Call You The First Cut Is The Deepest
Chevy Dirt G.T.O. Western Civilization
Irene McNeil Ce rythme le Rock n' roll (Ivory Joe Hunter) Adaptation de "You can’t stop this rocking and rolling" Mademoiselle Rythme
Ivan Burgess If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Northern Haze Trust ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Come Rain or Come Shine Sings
Chevy Dirt Nothing to Me Western Civilization
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Watchin' Zeros Grow The Black Tie Affair
Winston Hewitt Stop Knocking on My Door Pretty Brown Eyes
Winston Hewitt Just You and Me (version) Just You and Me
Borealis The Politician Sons of the Sea
Larena Clark Lord Gregory A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) On the Jazz Tip The Black Tie Affair
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Child in Me Motherlove
Winston Hewitt Shoo-ba-do-ba-do-ba Pretty Brown Eyes
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Spice This! The First Cut Is The Deepest
Al Oster One of These Days Yukon Gold
Winston Hewitt Our Love is Fallin' I Love You
Winston Hewitt I'm Gonna Love You Tonight (version) Just You and Me
Al Oster Yukon Cheechako Yukon Gold
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) L.T.D. Makes a Toast The Black Tie Affair
Two Tones Kilgarry Mountain Live at the Village Corner
Keatniks As Long As I Have You ST
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
Northern Haze Sinnaktuq ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Ivan Burgess Pendant que (Gilles Vigneault) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Winston Hewitt I Don't Need Your Love Snapshot
Winston Hewitt Do You Remember Snapshot
Two Tones Summer Love Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt I Need a Lot of Loving Just You and Me
Chevy Dirt Little Loser Western Civilization
Willie Dunn Poundmaker Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8
Get Loose Crew Wannabe ST
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight it (Part Two) Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Irene McNeil Bon Voyage Mademoiselle Rythme
Keatniks Here She Comes ST
Winston Hewitt There's No Love in the World Today Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Winston Hewitt Do You Ever Feel Like Crying Snapshot
Al Oster Trail of '98 Yukon Gold
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) John Leahy - The Banks of Inverness Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Larena Clark The Rifle Boys A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Winston Hewitt Jane (I'm Not the Same) Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Keatniks Can`t You See That She`s Mine ST
Winston Hewitt The Same One Full of Love
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) M.L.’s Dream Motherlove
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Conductin' Thangs The Black Tie Affair
Larena Clark The Banks of the Nile A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Stanley Baby - A Long Awa' Ship Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Just Swingin Symphony in Effect
Irene McNeil Rock n' roll cha cha cha Mademoiselle Rythme
Winston Hewitt Burning Inside Snapshot

FEATURED

bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) - Motherlove

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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

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

Les Trois Clefs

Motherlove

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

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