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
Keatniks Can`t You See That She`s Mine ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Brown Sugar Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Poetry is Black The Black Tie Affair
Winston Hewitt Love is the Answer Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Winston Hewitt Roses Are Red Full of Love
Two Tones Copper Kettle Live at the Village Corner
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Untouchable Symphony in Effect
Two Tones The Fox Live at the Village Corner
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) It's a Great Day Sings
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Said Chuck The First Cut Is The Deepest
Northern Haze Uvaguk ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Higher Level Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Lady Luck (The Darkside) The First Cut Is The Deepest
Ivan Burgess If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Winston Hewitt You Don't Have to Say I Love You
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Bill Bissett’s Lullaby Motherlove
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Drop the Needle Symphony in Effect
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Care for a Night Cap? The Black Tie Affair
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Mrs. Tom Sullivan - I Love Little Willie Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Winston Hewitt Let Us Work Together (version) Just You and Me
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
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do I Love You
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Bring It On (Remix) Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Winston Hewitt You're the One I Love Pretty Brown Eyes
Chevy Dirt No Foolin' Around Western Civilization
Winston Hewitt You're My Boopsy Pretty Brown Eyes
Chevy Dirt Little Loser Western Civilization
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
A Tribe Called Red Look at This ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Fine Tune Da Mic Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Winston Hewitt Just You and Me (version) Just You and Me
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Check My Vernacular Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Get Loose Crew Get Loose Crew ST
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do I Love You
Winston Hewitt You Don't Have to Say Your Sorry Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Borealis Broke Sons of the Sea
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) LTD's on the Wheels of Fortune Symphony in Effect
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) I'll Take Romance Sings
Da Slyme squeeze my blackhead ST
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Time is Now The First Cut Is The Deepest
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) How Many Styles Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
A Tribe Called Red Intertribal n1 ST
Winston Hewitt The Same One Full of Love
Ivan Burgess Pendant que (Gilles Vigneault) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Keatniks Here She Comes ST
Winston Hewitt Since I Met You Baby Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) O.J. Abbott - The Weaver Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Al Oster Next Boat Yukon Gold
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Fakin' Jamaican The First Cut Is The Deepest
Al Oster Words Will Never Tell Yukon Gold
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) The Other Woman Sings
Winston Hewitt Jane I'm Not the Same I Love You
Two Tones Lord I'm So Weary Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt Can't You Hear Me Snapshot
Two Tones Kilgarry Mountain Live at the Village Corner
Get Loose Crew Wannabe ST
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) The Happiest Girl in the World Sings
Winston Hewitt Our Love is Fallin' I Love You
Northern Haze Anivunga ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Larena Clark There Was a Lord in Edinburgh A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Borealis Another Boy Sons of the Sea
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Makin' Records Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Still Here The First Cut Is The Deepest
Winston Hewitt In My Flying Machine Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Just One of Those Things Sings
Winston Hewitt Keep Moving I Love You
Winston Hewitt Burning Inside Snapshot
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Free The First Cut Is The Deepest
A Tribe Called Red General Generations ST
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Mrs. Gordon Clark - I'll Go See My Love Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Ivan Burgess Outsider (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Winston Hewitt I Love You I Love You
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Don't Wanna be Your Slave The First Cut Is The Deepest
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Our Love is Here to Stay Sings
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Pleasure Sweets Motherlove
Winston Hewitt Pretty Brown Eyes Pretty Brown Eyes
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: The Album The First Cut Is The Deepest
A Tribe Called Red Good to Go ST
A Tribe Called Red Munchi -Shottas (A Tribe Called Red SocaCore remix) ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Private Symphony Symphony in Effect
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Come Rain or Come Shine Sings
Winston Hewitt It Feel So Good Full of Love
Get Loose Crew Wannabe (dub) ST
Al Oster One of These Days Yukon Gold
Larena Clark Thyme ‘tis a Pretty Flower A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Al Oster Yukon Cheechako Yukon Gold
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Your Daughter The First Cut Is The Deepest
Northern Haze Quviasuk ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Borealis Sons for the Sea Sons of the Sea
Northern Haze Trust ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It I Love You
Winston Hewitt Reggae Medley Reggae Medley
Winston Hewitt It's Too Late Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late
Winston Hewitt I'm Gonna Love You Tonight (version) Just You and Me
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Private Symphony (Remix) The Black Tie Affair
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) I'm the One The First Cut Is The Deepest
Get Loose Crew Protocol of Rap ST
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'

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bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) - Motherlove

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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

Lumsden, Saskatchewan → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

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A Tribe Called Red - ST

Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Al Oster - Yukon Gold

Vanguard, Saskatchewan - Langley, British Columbia - Whitehorse, Yukon, 🇨🇦

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Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) - Sings

Mill Village, Nova Scotia, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

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

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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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

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

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - Reggae Medley

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - Pretty Brown Eyes

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - Snapshot

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - I Love You

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - Just You and Me

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - Full of Love

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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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

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

Ethelbert, Manitoba - Hamilton, Ontario - Abbotsford, British Columbia

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

Les Trois Clefs

Motherlove

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

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