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
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Historical Implications of Turnips Motherlove
Northern Haze Trust ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Higher Level Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Ivan Burgess Pendant que (Gilles Vigneault) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Willie Dunn Collection Blues Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Personal Assistant The First Cut Is The Deepest
Larena Clark The Dapple Grey A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Winston Hewitt Just You and Me Just You and Me
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) L.T.D. Makes a Toast The Black Tie Affair
Get Loose Crew Rap Vigilante ST
Irene McNeil Reviens Vers Moi (Return to Me) Mademoiselle Rythme
Two Tones We Come Here to Sing Live at the Village Corner
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) I'll Take Romance Sings
Winston Hewitt Jane I'm Not the Same I Love You
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It I Love You
A Tribe Called Red Electric pow wow drum ST
Winston Hewitt Shoo-ba-do-ba-do-ba Pretty Brown Eyes
Irene McNeil Rock a Beatin' Boogie (Bill Haley) Mademoiselle Rythme
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) V.I.P.'s Only (with K-4CE) The Black Tie Affair
Al Oster Yukon Gold Yukon Gold
Borealis In the End Sons of the Sea
Northern Haze Quviasuk ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Keatniks Come a Little Bit Closer ST
Yank Barry Introduction to the Diary of Mr. Gray (78rpm monophonic) The Diary of Mr. Gray
Keatniks Long Tall Sally ST
Two Tones Summer Love Live at the Village Corner
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Tom Brandon - Erin's Green Shore Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
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 Sugar Sugar Pretty Brown Eyes
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Mic Mechanism Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Chevy Dirt No Foolin' Around Western Civilization
Al Oster Yukon Cheechako Yukon Gold
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) "Dat's My Nigga!!" Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Winston Hewitt Since I Met You Baby Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Keatniks Memphis ST
Ivan Burgess Shadowy Street (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Pleasure Sweets Motherlove
Da Slyme squeeze my blackhead ST
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) The Other Woman Sings
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Pass the Champagne The Black Tie Affair
Willie Dunn Poundmaker Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8
Winston Hewitt I Love You I Love You
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Makin' Records Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Winston Hewitt Do You Ever Feel Like Crying Snapshot
Winston Hewitt Our Love is Fallin' I Love You
Borealis Old Age Sons of the Sea
Two Tones Copper Kettle Live at the Village Corner
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Bill Bissett’s Lullaby Motherlove
Larena Clark There Was a Lord in Edinburgh A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Winston Hewitt Burning Inside Snapshot
Winston Hewitt Roses Are Red Full of Love
Da Slyme Defacation On The Nation ST
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Winston Hewitt Let Us Work Together (version) Just You and Me
Winston Hewitt No Other Girl Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Winston Hewitt Keep Moving I Love You
Da Slyme Trudeau Sucks ST
Winston Hewitt They Got to Come Pretty Brown Eyes
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) It's a Great Day Sings
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Come Rain or Come Shine Sings
Winston Hewitt Our Love is Fallin' I Love You
Irene McNeil Ce rythme le Rock n' roll (Ivory Joe Hunter) Adaptation de "You can’t stop this rocking and rolling" Mademoiselle Rythme
Two Tones Calypso Baby Live at the Village Corner
Get Loose Crew Rap Vigilante (dub) ST
Winston Hewitt Got the Fever Snapshot
Al Oster Trail of '98 Yukon Gold
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Cut Off (Unclean) The First Cut Is The Deepest
Larena Clark I Once Loved a Lass A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) The Maestro Symphony in Effect
Get Loose Crew Protocol of Rap ST
Winston Hewitt Lonely Street Reggae Medley
Keatniks Bumble Boogie ST
Larena Clark The Faggot Cutter A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) M.L.’s Dream Motherlove
Borealis Another Boy Sons of the Sea
Winston Hewitt Dreaming of You Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
A Tribe Called Red Native puppy love ST
Two Tones Lord I'm So Weary Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt Our Love Is Fallin' Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) The Happiest Girl in the World Sings
Singing Fools The Bum Rap The Bum Rap b/w Fire My Love (picture sleeve)
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Pray To Da East Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Ivan Burgess The Call (Gene MacLellan) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Al Oster Midnight Sun Rock Yukon Gold
Yank Barry I'll Still Be Remembering You The Diary of Mr. Gray
Al Oster One of These Days Yukon Gold
Two Tones Dark as a Dungeon Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt Love is the Answer Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Winston Hewitt I'm Not the One to Cry Over You Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Child in Me Motherlove
Winston Hewitt It's Too Late Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Ripped Mee Off The First Cut Is The Deepest
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) The Mic's My Piece Symphony in Effect
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Hors d'ouevres The Black Tie Affair
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Our Love is Here to Stay Sings
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Orlo Brandon - The Green Briar Shore Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Borealis Lucky Day Sons of the Sea
Keatniks Three Long Days and Nights ST
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel

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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