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	Length
A Tribe Called Red	Woodcarver	ST	05:12
Winston Hewitt	What More Can I Do	I Love You	03:01
Irene McNeil	Sois gentil (Adaptation de "Treat me nice" interprétée par Elvis dans le film Jailhouse rock)	Mademoiselle Rythme	01:59
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Certs Wid Out Da Retsyn	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:09
Winston Hewitt	Stop Knocking on My Door	Pretty Brown Eyes	05:00
Two Tones	Kilgarry Mountain	Live at the Village Corner	02:12
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	An After Dinner Mint	The Black Tie Affair	01:33
Winston Hewitt	You Don't Have to Say Your Sorry	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:27
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Don't Wanna be Your Slave	The First Cut Is The Deepest	04:33
Two Tones	Calypso Baby	Live at the Village Corner	02:06
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	Come Rain or Come Shine	Sings	02:02
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Drop the Needle	Symphony in Effect	05:46
Keatniks	Can`t You See That She`s Mine	ST	02:03
Winston Hewitt	Reggae Medley	Reggae Medley	08:35
Bobby Kris and the Imperials	A Year From Today	She Belongs to Me b/w A Year From Today	02:29
A Tribe Called Red	Good to Go	ST	04:20
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Chevy Dirt	Gas Operator	Western Civilization	03:17
Borealis	Broke	Sons of the Sea	03:18
Irene McNeil	Rock’n roll du Père Noël (Boogie woogie Santa Claus)	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:02
Chevy Dirt	Western Civilization	Western Civilization	02:35
Willie Dunn	The Little Big Horn	Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8	12:14
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	The Incest Song	Motherlove	02:21
Ivan Burgess	Shadowy Street (Ivan Burgess)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:16
Al Oster	918 Miles	Yukon Gold	02:15
Winston Hewitt	I Want to Forget	Snapshot	02:37
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Cut Off (Unclean)	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:30
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight It	I Love You	02:28
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Pass the Champagne	The Black Tie Affair	04:54
Get Loose Crew	Wannabe	ST	04:34
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsy	Pretty Brown Eyes	04:53
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Makin' Records	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:52
Borealis	In the End	Sons of the Sea	02:31
Al Oster	Fair Weather Friend	Yukon Gold	02:28
Irene McNeil	Dis-moi que tu m’aimes (Tell me that you love me)	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:11
Chevy Dirt	G.T.O.	Western Civilization	02:13
Winston Hewitt	In My Flying Machine	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:46
Borealis	The Politician	Sons of the Sea	03:31
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Free	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:34
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	The Happiest Girl in the World	Sings	02:47
Winston Hewitt	Burning Inside	Snapshot	02:43
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Historical Implications of Turnips	Motherlove	00:24
Northern Haze	Puigo	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	02:35
Larena Clark	The Faggot Cutter	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	02:28
Get Loose Crew	Protocol of Rap (dub)	ST	04:54
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	Marcelle McMahon - Sir Charles Lapier	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	03:13
Northern Haze	Anivunga	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	02:02
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Untouchable	Symphony in Effect	03:47
Winston Hewitt	I Love You	I Love You	03:50
Chevy Dirt	This Ain't Love	Western Civilization	03:43
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	08:30
Yank Barry	I Can't Help Feeling	The Diary of Mr. Gray	02:44
A Tribe Called Red	Native puppy love	ST	03:41
Da Slyme	squeeze my blackhead	ST	02:35
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	02:42
Winston Hewitt	Let Us Work Together	Just You and Me	04:33
Winston Hewitt	Let it Be	Pretty Brown Eyes	04:14
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Mic Mechanism	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:15
Borealis	Higher	Sons of the Sea	03:27
Winston Hewitt	They Got to Come	Pretty Brown Eyes	04:54
Al Oster	Words Will Never Tell	Yukon Gold	02:09
Winston Hewitt	I'm Not the One to Cry Over You	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:07
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	John Leahy - The Banks of Inverness	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	02:06
Keatniks	Three Long Days and Nights	ST	02:53
A Tribe Called Red	Intertribal n1	ST	03:28
Chevy Dirt	Little Loser	Western Civilization	03:28
Winston Hewitt	Stealin' Love	Pretty Brown Eyes	05:24
Intersystems	track 01 (entire side 1)	Free Psychadelic Poster Inside	27:30
Keatniks	Laudie, Laudie Miss Claudie	ST	02:33
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: Said Chuck	The First Cut Is The Deepest	01:00
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Pray To Da East	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:38
Irene McNeil	Bon Voyage	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:34
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Lady Luck (The Darkside)	The First Cut Is The Deepest	04:03
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight It (Part 2)	I Love You	02:50
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Ripped Mee Off	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:59
Winston Hewitt	Shoo-ba-do-ba-do-ba	Pretty Brown Eyes	04:27
A Tribe Called Red	General Generations	ST	03:20
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Nothin' At All (with George Banton)	The Black Tie Affair	05:03
A Tribe Called Red	Electric pow wow drum	ST	03:37
Two Tones	We Come Here to Sing	Live at the Village Corner	02:34
Winston Hewitt	The Same One	Full of Love	04:18
Irene McNeil	Ce rythme le Rock n' roll (Ivory Joe Hunter) Adaptation de "You can’t stop this rocking and rolling"	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:20
Winston Hewitt	No Other Girl	I Love You	02:45
A Tribe Called Red	Red Skin Girl (ATCR Remix)	ST	05:17
A Tribe Called Red	Moombahwow	ST	04:20
Winston Hewitt	No Other Girl	I Love You	02:45
Two Tones	Copper Kettle	Live at the Village Corner	03:34
Chevy Dirt	No Foolin' Around	Western Civilization	02:53
Winston Hewitt	I'm Gonna Love You Tonight (version)	Just You and Me	03:02
John Oswald	Pocket (Basie - Oswald)	Plunderphonics	04:26
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: Outro & Cut Off (Clean)	The First Cut Is The Deepest	06:01
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Pleasure Sweets	Motherlove	04:29
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	Mrs. Tom Sullivan - I Love Little Willie	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	00:52
Winston Hewitt	Our Love Is Fallin'	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:46
Winston Hewitt	Got the Fever	Snapshot	02:24
Larena Clark	The Dapple Grey	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	05:22
Two Tones	The Fox	Live at the Village Corner	02:32
Northern Haze	Sinnaktuq	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	02:20

Canadian Pioneers

Tracks

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bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) - Motherlove

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

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

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Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) - Symphony in Effect

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A Tribe Called Red - ST

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Al Oster - Yukon Gold

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Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) - Sings

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Northern Haze - ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ

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

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

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

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

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Ivan Burgess - Minstrel Of The Dawn

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John Oswald - Plunderphonics

Da Slyme - ST

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

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

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Winston Hewitt - Reggae Medley

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Winston Hewitt - Pretty Brown Eyes

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

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Winston Hewitt - Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'

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Winston Hewitt - Snapshot

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Winston Hewitt - I Love You

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Winston Hewitt - Just You and Me

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Winston Hewitt - Full of Love

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Borealis - Sons of the Sea

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Two Tones - Live at the Village Corner

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Chevy Dirt - Western Civilization

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

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

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