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
A Tribe Called Red Electric pow wow drum ST
Winston Hewitt Our Love Is Fallin' Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) I'll Take Romance Sings
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Al Oster Midnight Sun Rock Yukon Gold
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Chevy Dirt G.T.O. Western Civilization
Winston Hewitt They Got to Come Pretty Brown Eyes
Northern Haze Sinnaktuq ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Da Slyme Trudeau Sucks ST
Winston Hewitt I Want to Forget Snapshot
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Pray To Da East Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
A Tribe Called Red Moombahwow ST
Borealis Another Boy Sons of the Sea
Winston Hewitt Get on the Scene Snapshot
Winston Hewitt Since I Met You Baby Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Keatniks Long Tall Sally ST
Chevy Dirt Underground Western Civilization
Ivan Burgess Pendant que (Gilles Vigneault) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Larena Clark The Banks of the Nile A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Get Loose Crew Protocol of Rap (dub) ST
Al Oster Yukon Gold Yukon Gold
Winston Hewitt You Don't Have to Say I Love You
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do I Love You
Winston Hewitt It Feel So Good Full of Love
Two Tones Sinnerman Live at the Village Corner
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) On the Jazz Tip The Black Tie Affair
Winston Hewitt Our Love is Fallin' I Love You
Winston Hewitt No Other Girl I Love You
Ivan Burgess I Want to Live (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
John Oswald Pocket (Basie - Oswald) Plunderphonics
Two Tones This is My Song Live at the Village Corner
Willie Dunn The Little Big Horn Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8
Winston Hewitt Jane (I'm Not the Same) Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Get Loose Crew Wannabe ST
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Come Rain or Come Shine Sings
Two Tones Fast Freight Live at the Village Corner
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Conductin' Thangs The Black Tie Affair
Winston Hewitt Got the Fever Snapshot
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Dada Lama Motherlove
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) LTD's on the Wheels of Fortune Symphony in Effect
Keatniks Come a Little Bit Closer ST
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Historical Implications of Turnips Motherlove
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) John Leahy - The Banks of Inverness Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Keatniks As Long As I Have You ST
Larena Clark There Was a Lord in Edinburgh A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Bring It On (Remix) Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Winston Hewitt Do You Remember Snapshot
Irene McNeil Reviens Vers Moi (Return to Me) Mademoiselle Rythme
Al Oster Waltz of the Yukon Yukon Gold
Winston Hewitt High School Dance Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Get Loose Crew Rap Vigilante (dub) ST
Al Oster 918 Miles Yukon Gold
Winston Hewitt There's No Love in the World Today Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) The Other Woman Sings
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Poetry is Black The Black Tie Affair
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) I'll Call You The First Cut Is The Deepest
Al Oster I Wonder What Your Eyes Will Say Yukon Gold
Winston Hewitt Sugar Sugar Pretty Brown Eyes
Keatniks Laudie, Laudie Miss Claudie ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Fine Tune Da Mic Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It I Love You
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Child in Me Motherlove
Intersystems track 06 (entire side 2) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) I'm Drinkin' Milk Now Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Borealis The Politician Sons of the Sea
Winston Hewitt Keep Moving I Love You
Irene McNeil Sois gentil (Adaptation de "Treat me nice" interprétée par Elvis dans le film Jailhouse rock) Mademoiselle Rythme
Winston Hewitt I'm Gonna Love You Tonight (version) Just You and Me
Winston Hewitt Our Love is Fallin' I Love You
Two Tones Dark as a Dungeon Live at the Village Corner
Chevy Dirt Nothing to Me Western Civilization
Winston Hewitt Do You Ever Feel Like Crying Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Willie Dunn Collection Blues Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Outro & Cut Off (Clean) The First Cut Is The Deepest
Irene McNeil Rock’n roll du Père Noël (Boogie woogie Santa Claus) Mademoiselle Rythme
Winston Hewitt Just You and Me Just You and Me
Winston Hewitt You Don't Have to Say Your Sorry Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: The Album The First Cut Is The Deepest
Winston Hewitt Stealin' Love Pretty Brown Eyes
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
Winston Hewitt Jane I'm Not the Same I Love You
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Watchin' Zeros Grow The Black Tie Affair
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Winston Hewitt Dreaming of You Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Get Loose Crew Protocol of Rap ST
Winston Hewitt Just You and Me (version) Just You and Me
Winston Hewitt You Don't Have to Say I Love You
Ivan Burgess When My Love Comes (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Nothin' At All (with George Banton) The Black Tie Affair
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Thanks for the Memory Sings
Winston Hewitt I'm Gonna Love You Tonight Just You and Me
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) The Maestro Symphony in Effect
Winston Hewitt Reggae Medley Reggae Medley
Winston Hewitt You're the One I Love Pretty Brown Eyes
Winston Hewitt Shoo-ba-do-ba-do-ba Pretty Brown Eyes
Yank Barry Act 1: (Stereophonic) Mr. Gray The Diary of Mr. Gray
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Just One of Those Things Sings
Winston Hewitt Let Us Work Together (version) Just You and Me

FEATURED

bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) - Motherlove

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

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A Tribe Called Red - ST

Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Al Oster - Yukon Gold

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

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Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) - Sings

Mill Village, Nova Scotia, 🇨🇦

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Northern Haze - ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ

Igloolik, Nunavut, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Lake Simcoe, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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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

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

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - Reggae Medley

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - Pretty Brown Eyes

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - Snapshot

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - I Love You

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - Just You and Me

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - Full of Love

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Borealis - Sons of the Sea

St. John's, Newfoundland, 🇨🇦

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Two Tones - Live at the Village Corner

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

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Chevy Dirt - Western Civilization

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

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

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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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