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
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: The Album	The First Cut Is The Deepest	00:46
A Tribe Called Red	Electric pow wow drum	ST	03:37
Ivan Burgess	The Call (Gene MacLellan)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:31
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: Personal Assistant	The First Cut Is The Deepest	01:35
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	LTD's on the Wheels of Fortune	Symphony in Effect	04:37
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	Tom Brandon - Erin's Green Shore	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	03:15
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight It	I Love You	02:28
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Winston Hewitt	I Need a Lot of Loving	Just You and Me	02:18
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	John Leahy - The Banks of Inverness	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	02:06
Winston Hewitt	You Don't Have to Say	I Love You	02:17
Irene McNeil	Rock a Beatin' Boogie (Bill Haley)	Mademoiselle Rythme	01:33
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	The Maestro	Symphony in Effect	03:48
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight it (Part Two)	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:27
Al Oster	Words Will Never Tell	Yukon Gold	02:09
Winston Hewitt	What More Can I Do	I Love You	03:01
Winston Hewitt	Someone Loves You Honey	Full of Love	04:49
Winston Hewitt	I'm Gonna Love You Tonight (version)	Just You and Me	03:02
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	Hey There	Sings	02:17
Winston Hewitt	Let it Be	Pretty Brown Eyes	04:14
Chevy Dirt	Western Civilization	Western Civilization	02:35
Winston Hewitt	Our Love is Fallin'	I Love You	02:46
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Makin' Records	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:52
Keatniks	Come a Little Bit Closer	ST	02:59
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	Our Love is Here to Stay	Sings	02:10
Yank Barry	I Can't Help Feeling	The Diary of Mr. Gray	02:44
Two Tones	Fast Freight	Live at the Village Corner	03:48
A Tribe Called Red	Native puppy love	ST	03:41
Northern Haze	Anivunga	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	02:02
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	I'm Showin You	Symphony in Effect	04:51
Keatniks	Long Tall Sally	ST	01:55
Keatniks	I Could Easily Fall In Love With You	ST	02:52
John Oswald	Spring (Stravinsky - Oswald	Plunderphonics	02:45
Da Slyme	Trudeau Sucks	ST	00:58
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	05:34
Winston Hewitt	Jane I'm Not the Same	I Love You	03:27
Orphic Egg	Crack It	Crack It b/w Crack It	03:40
Winston Hewitt	Burning Inside	Snapshot	02:43
Ivan Burgess	Pendant que (Gilles Vigneault)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	03:48
Borealis	Business	Sons of the Sea	04:44
Ivan Burgess	I Want to Live (Ivan Burgess)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:15
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Let Your Backbone Slide (Power mix)	Symphony in Effect	04:59
Winston Hewitt	Just Let Me Be	Just You and Me	03:04
Irene McNeil	Reviens Vers Moi (Return to Me)	Mademoiselle Rythme	01:59
Winston Hewitt	What Am I Living For	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:42
Two Tones	We Come Here to Sing	Live at the Village Corner	02:34
Borealis	Another Boy	Sons of the Sea	05:10
Al Oster	Next Boat	Yukon Gold	02:41
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
Larena Clark	The Old Country Fair	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	01:35
Winston Hewitt	I'm So Glad I Found You	Just You and Me	02:19
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Still Here	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:59
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	Jerry Carey - Old Erin Far Away	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	02:41
A Tribe Called Red	Munchi -Shottas (A Tribe Called Red SocaCore remix)	ST	05:48
Winston Hewitt	I Love You	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	03:53
Winston Hewitt	I'm So Glad I Found You (version)	Just You and Me	02:22
Borealis	Old Age	Sons of the Sea	03:01
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Fine Tune Da Mic	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	03:47
Winston Hewitt	Do You Remember	Snapshot	02:17
Chevy Dirt	Little Loser	Western Civilization	03:28
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: Spice This!	The First Cut Is The Deepest	00:26
Two Tones	Children Go Where I Send Thee	Live at the Village Corner	02:37
Chevy Dirt	Convertible Car	Western Civilization	03:26
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Hors d'ouevres	The Black Tie Affair	00:50
Borealis	Lucky Day	Sons of the Sea	03:09
Winston Hewitt	Stealin' Love	Pretty Brown Eyes	05:24
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: Said Chuck	The First Cut Is The Deepest	01:00
Chevy Dirt	Nothing to Me	Western Civilization	03:04
Winston Hewitt	Just You and Me (version)	Just You and Me	02:37
Al Oster	Trail of '98	Yukon Gold	02:37
Irene McNeil	Noël en Italie	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:40
John Oswald	Pocket (Basie - Oswald)	Plunderphonics	04:26
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Higher Level	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	03:20
Winston Hewitt	No Other Girl	I Love You	02:45
Borealis	The Politician	Sons of the Sea	03:31
Winston Hewitt	Do You Ever Feel Like Crying	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	02:23
Two Tones	Sinnerman	Live at the Village Corner	02:52
A Tribe Called Red	Red Skin Girl (ATCR Remix)	ST	05:17
Al Oster	918 Miles	Yukon Gold	02:15
Winston Hewitt	Keep Movin' (Formerly-Dynagroove)	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	03:48
Ivan Burgess	Shadowy Street (Ivan Burgess)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:16
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Dada Lama	Motherlove	03:06
A Tribe Called Red	Intertribal n1	ST	03:28
Irene McNeil	Rock’n roll du Père Noël (Boogie woogie Santa Claus)	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:02
Winston Hewitt	Dreaming of You	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:36
Northern Haze	Uvaguk	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	03:45
Winston Hewitt	What More Can I Do	I Love You	03:01
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Winston Hewitt	I Want to Forget	Snapshot	02:37
Yank Barry	Act 1: (Stereophonic) Mr. Gray	The Diary of Mr. Gray	05:19
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Cut Off (Unclean)	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:30
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Conductin' Thangs	The Black Tie Affair	04:52
Al Oster	Fair Weather Friend	Yukon Gold	02:28
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Don't Wanna be Your Slave	The First Cut Is The Deepest	04:33
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight It (Part 2)	I Love You	02:50
Winston Hewitt	No Other Girl	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:46
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	Gone with the Wind	Sings	03:37
Two Tones	Copper Kettle	Live at the Village Corner	03:34
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

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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