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
Two Tones	Dark as a Dungeon	Live at the Village Corner	02:18
Winston Hewitt	Just You and Me (version)	Just You and Me	02:37
Irene McNeil	Rock a Beatin' Boogie (Bill Haley)	Mademoiselle Rythme	01:33
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Your Daughter	The First Cut Is The Deepest	04:02
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	Our Love is Here to Stay	Sings	02:10
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	O.J. Abbott - The Weaver	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	01:37
Ivan Burgess	Miss Marianne (Ivan Burgess)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:51
Winston Hewitt	I'll Get to You	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:12
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: The Album	The First Cut Is The Deepest	00:46
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
Irene McNeil	Sois gentil (Adaptation de "Treat me nice" interprétée par Elvis dans le film Jailhouse rock)	Mademoiselle Rythme	01:59
Two Tones	The Fox	Live at the Village Corner	02:32
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)	Just One of Those Things	Sings	02:27
Larena Clark	Lord Gregory	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	04:07
Winston Hewitt	Just You and Me	Just You and Me	02:37
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight It	I Love You	02:28
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Let Your Backbone Slide (Power mix)	Symphony in Effect	04:59
Ivan Burgess	Outsider (Ivan Burgess)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	03:32
Al Oster	I Wonder What Your Eyes Will Say	Yukon Gold	01:59
Northern Haze	Qailaurit	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	01:57
Keatniks	King of the Road	ST	02:47
Ivan Burgess	Mon Pays (Gilles Vigneault)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:36
Ivan Burgess	If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:32
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	On the Jazz Tip	The Black Tie Affair	03:30
Chevy Dirt	Convertible Car	Western Civilization	03:26
Irene McNeil	Noël en Italie	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:40
Winston Hewitt	Do You Ever Feel Like Crying	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	02:23
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Care for a Night Cap?	The Black Tie Affair	01:07
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	I'm Showin You	Symphony in Effect	04:51
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight It	I Love You	02:28
Orphic Egg	Crack It	Crack It b/w Crack It	03:26
Larena Clark	Thyme ‘tis a Pretty Flower	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	01:13
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Ripped Mee Off	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:59
Winston Hewitt	Do You Ever Feel Like Crying	Snapshot	02:21
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	Gone with the Wind	Sings	03:37
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	LTD's on the Wheels of Fortune	Symphony in Effect	04:37
Winston Hewitt	What Am I Living For	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:42
Winston Hewitt	I'm So Glad I Found You (version)	Just You and Me	02:22
Borealis	In the End	Sons of the Sea	02:31
Winston Hewitt	I Want to Forget	Snapshot	02:37
Irene McNeil	Rock n' roll cha cha cha	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:39
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	I'll Call You	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:03
Keatniks	That's My Girl	ST	01:29
A Tribe Called Red	Good to Go	ST	04:20
Winston Hewitt	You Don't Have to Say Your Sorry	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:27
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	Orlo Brandon - The Green Briar Shore	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	02:26
Yank Barry	Introduction to the Diary of Mr. Gray (78rpm monophonic)	The Diary of Mr. Gray	03:29
Orphic Egg	Crack It	Crack It b/w Crack It	03:40
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	The Other Woman	Sings	02:33
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Just Swingin	Symphony in Effect	05:30
Keatniks	Three Long Days and Nights	ST	02:53
Borealis	Higher	Sons of the Sea	03:27
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Poetry is Black	The Black Tie Affair	04:16
Winston Hewitt	Let it Be	Pretty Brown Eyes	04:14
Winston Hewitt	Let Us Work Together	Just You and Me	04:33
Winston Hewitt	No Other Girl	I Love You	02:45
Two Tones	Kilgarry Mountain	Live at the Village Corner	02:12
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Lady Luck (The Darkside)	The First Cut Is The Deepest	04:03
Winston Hewitt	Do You Remember	Snapshot	02:17
Borealis	Lucky Day	Sons of the Sea	03:09
Keatniks	Long Tall Sally	ST	01:55
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	M.L.’s Dream	Motherlove	01:06
Intersystems	track 06 (entire side 2)	Free Psychadelic Poster Inside	22:24
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	I'm Drinkin' Milk Now	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	03:47
Two Tones	This is My Song	Live at the Village Corner	02:19
Yank Barry	I Can't Help Feeling	The Diary of Mr. Gray	02:44
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight it (Part One)	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:52
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
Keatniks	Come a Little Bit Closer	ST	02:59
Northern Haze	Uvaguk	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	03:45
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Pleasure Sweets	Motherlove	04:29
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Historical Implications of Turnips	Motherlove	00:24
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Still Here	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:59
Winston Hewitt	Can't You Hear Me	Snapshot	02:46
Larena Clark	The Gallant Hussar	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	03:04
Irene McNeil	Dis-moi que tu m’aimes (Tell me that you love me)	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:11
Borealis	Sons for the Sea	Sons of the Sea	03:53
Al Oster	Waltz of the Yukon	Yukon Gold	03:18
Ivan Burgess	Pendant que (Gilles Vigneault)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	03:48
Larena Clark	The Old Country Fair	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	01:35
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Brown Sugar	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:31
Larena Clark	The Rifle Boys	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	03:46
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	The Maestro	Symphony in Effect	03:48
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	John Leahy - The Banks of Inverness	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	02:06
Winston Hewitt	Pretty Brown Eyes	Pretty Brown Eyes	03:37
Winston Hewitt	I'm So Glad I Found You	Just You and Me	02:19
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Fortissimo	Symphony in Effect	02:32
Winston Hewitt	You Don't Have to Say	I Love You	02:17
Northern Haze	Inusivut	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	03:14
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	"Dat's My Nigga!!"	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:05
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Fine Tune Da Mic	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	03:47
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Dada Lama	Motherlove	03:06
Winston Hewitt	Jane I'm Not the Same	I Love You	03:27
Winston Hewitt	Tell the Devil	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:38
Winston Hewitt	I Love You	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	03:53
Winston Hewitt	Roses Are Red	Full of Love	07:52
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Hors d'ouevres	The Black Tie Affair	00:50

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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