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
Chevy Dirt	Little Loser	Western Civilization	03:28
Chevy Dirt	Gas Operator	Western Civilization	03:17
Winston Hewitt	I Love You	I Love You	03:50
Chevy Dirt	This Ain't Love	Western Civilization	03:43
Winston Hewitt	Stealin' Love	Pretty Brown Eyes	05:24
Borealis	Broke	Sons of the Sea	03:18
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Just Swingin	Symphony in Effect	05:30
Northern Haze	Inusivut	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	03:14
Northern Haze	Trust	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	03:12
Keatniks	King of the Road	ST	02:47
Winston Hewitt	Do You Ever Feel Like Crying	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	02:23
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsy	Pretty Brown Eyes	04:53
Two Tones	Calypso Baby	Live at the Village Corner	02:06
Winston Hewitt	Our Love Is Fallin'	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:46
Irene McNeil	Noël en Italie	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:40
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight it (Part Two)	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:27
Winston Hewitt	Our Love is Fallin'	I Love You	02:46
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	STHNLA	Motherlove	04:44
Winston Hewitt	It's Too Late	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:49
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	Tom Brandon - Erin's Green Shore	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	03:15
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	I'll Take Romance	Sings	02:21
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	Thanks for the Memory	Sings	02:50
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Cut Off (Unclean)	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:30
Winston Hewitt	Let it Be	Pretty Brown Eyes	04:14
Winston Hewitt	Someone Loves You Honey	Full of Love	04:49
Winston Hewitt	It's Too Late	Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late	03:48
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Higher Level	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	03:20
Two Tones	Fast Freight	Live at the Village Corner	03:48
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: Outro & Cut Off (Clean)	The First Cut Is The Deepest	06:01
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
Intersystems	track 01 (entire side 1)	Free Psychadelic Poster Inside	27:30
Ivan Burgess	If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:32
Borealis	Sons for the Sea	Sons of the Sea	03:53
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Makin' Records	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:52
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: The Album	The First Cut Is The Deepest	00:46
Borealis	Higher	Sons of the Sea	03:27
Singing Fools	The Bum Rap	The Bum Rap b/w Fire My Love (picture sleeve)	04:21
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Care for a Night Cap?	The Black Tie Affair	01:07
Ivan Burgess	I Want to Live (Ivan Burgess)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:15
Borealis	In the End	Sons of the Sea	02:31
Winston Hewitt	I'm Not the One to Cry Over You	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:07
Northern Haze	Quviasuk	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	02:28
Irene McNeil	Reviens Vers Moi (Return to Me)	Mademoiselle Rythme	01:59
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	It's a Great Day	Sings	02:08
Al Oster	I Wonder What Your Eyes Will Say	Yukon Gold	01:59
Chevy Dirt	Shake Me Up	Western Civilization	02:18
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	The Other Woman	Sings	02:33
Two Tones	This is My Song	Live at the Village Corner	02:19
Get Loose Crew	Get Loose Crew	ST	05:01
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	L.T.D. Makes a Toast	The Black Tie Affair	01:48
A Tribe Called Red	Munchi -Shottas (A Tribe Called Red SocaCore remix)	ST	05:48
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Winston Hewitt	Pretty Brown Eyes	Pretty Brown Eyes	03:37
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Drop the Needle	Symphony in Effect	05:46
Winston Hewitt	I Want to Forget	Snapshot	02:37
Two Tones	Summer Love	Live at the Village Corner	02:35
Bob Regan & the Peace River Rangers	Teenage Boogie	Teenage Boogie b/w I Will Never Hold Another	02:26
Chevy Dirt	Western Civilization	Western Civilization	02:35
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Dada Lama	Motherlove	03:06
Larena Clark	The Faggot Cutter	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	02:28
A Tribe Called Red	Native puppy love	ST	03:41
Winston Hewitt	They Got to Come	Pretty Brown Eyes	04:54
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
Al Oster	Next Boat	Yukon Gold	02:41
Larena Clark	Thyme ‘tis a Pretty Flower	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	01:13
Winston Hewitt	You Don't Have to Say Your Sorry	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:27
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	I'm Showin You	Symphony in Effect	04:51
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Time is Now	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:13
Ivan Burgess	Outsider (Ivan Burgess)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	03:32
Borealis	Tomorrow Morning	Sons of the Sea	05:22
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Untouchable	Symphony in Effect	03:47
Winston Hewitt	I Love You	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	03:53
Winston Hewitt	I'm Gonna Love You Tonight	Just You and Me	03:03
Orphic Egg	Crack It	Crack It b/w Crack It	03:40
Larena Clark	The House Carpenter	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	04:29
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Nothin' At All (with George Banton)	The Black Tie Affair	05:03
Northern Haze	Sinnaktuq	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	02:20
A Tribe Called Red	Electric pow wow drum	ST	03:37
Get Loose Crew	Rap Vigilante	ST	04:30
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	The Child in Me	Motherlove	00:47
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Private Symphony (Remix)	The Black Tie Affair	05:11
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight It (Part 2)	I Love You	02:50
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight It	I Love You	02:28
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Certs Wid Out Da Retsyn	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:09
Winston Hewitt	It Feel So Good	Full of Love	04:01
Ivan Burgess	Mon Pays (Gilles Vigneault)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:36
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
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	These Foolish Things	Sings	03:02
Yank Barry	I'll Still Be Remembering You	The Diary of Mr. Gray	02:43
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: Said Chuck	The First Cut Is The Deepest	01:00
Winston Hewitt	What More Can I Do	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:59
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	The Party's Over	Sings	02:43
Keatniks	Three Long Days and Nights	ST	02:53
Get Loose Crew	Wannabe	ST	04:34
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Still Here	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:59
Get Loose Crew	Protocol of Rap (dub)	ST	04:54
Winston Hewitt	Keep Movin' (Formerly-Dynagroove)	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	03:48
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	I'm the One	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:01
Borealis	Business	Sons of the Sea	04:44

Canadian Pioneers

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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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