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)	Free	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:34
A Tribe Called Red	Good to Go	ST	04:20
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Hors d'ouevres	The Black Tie Affair	00:50
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Yukon Gold	02:22
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight it (Part Two)	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:27
Da Slyme	squeeze my blackhead	ST	02:35
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	The Other Woman	Sings	02:33
Winston Hewitt	I Love You	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	03:53
Al Oster	Waltz of the Yukon	Yukon Gold	03:18
Get Loose Crew	Wannabe (dub)	ST	04:36
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	STHNLA	Motherlove	04:44
Irene McNeil	Reviens Vers Moi (Return to Me)	Mademoiselle Rythme	01:59
Ivan Burgess	Miss Marianne (Ivan Burgess)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:51
Keatniks	Memphis	ST	02:22
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Pray To Da East	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:38
Al Oster	Words Will Never Tell	Yukon Gold	02:09
Chevy Dirt	Western Civilization	Western Civilization	02:35
Winston Hewitt	Let it Be	Pretty Brown Eyes	04:14
Winston Hewitt	Let Us Work Together	Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late	08:46
Winston Hewitt	Since I Met You Baby	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	04:04
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	Let Us Work Together (version)	Just You and Me	03:54
Keatniks	Laudie, Laudie Miss Claudie	ST	02:33
Keatniks	Come a Little Bit Closer	ST	02:59
Larena Clark	Rattle on the Stovepipe	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	01:34
Willie Dunn	Collection Blues	Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8	04:34
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	Gone with the Wind	Sings	03:37
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Check My Vernacular	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	03:15
Winston Hewitt	Lonely Street	Reggae Medley	02:18
Winston Hewitt	Just You and Me (version)	Just You and Me	02:37
Al Oster	Trail of '98	Yukon Gold	02:37
Yank Barry	Act 1: (Stereophonic) Mr. Gray	The Diary of Mr. Gray	05:19
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Your Daughter	The First Cut Is The Deepest	04:02
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Mic Mechanism	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:15
Two Tones	Lord I'm So Weary	Live at the Village Corner	03:00
Winston Hewitt	The Same One	Full of Love	04:18
Winston Hewitt	Jane (I'm Not the Same)	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	03:27
Winston Hewitt	Just You and Me	Just You and Me	02:37
Get Loose Crew	Protocol of Rap	ST	04:24
A Tribe Called Red	Intertribal n1	ST	03:28
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Still Here	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:59
Da Slyme	Defacation On The Nation	ST	01:10
Winston Hewitt	What More Can I Do	I Love You	03:01
Winston Hewitt	Can't You Hear Me	Snapshot	02:46
Northern Haze	Qailaurit	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	01:57
Winston Hewitt	It's Too Late	Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late	03:48
Irene McNeil	Rock a Beatin' Boogie (Bill Haley)	Mademoiselle Rythme	01:33
Keatniks	Here She Comes	ST	01:52
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Certs Wid Out Da Retsyn	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:09
Al Oster	Fair Weather Friend	Yukon Gold	02:28
Winston Hewitt	You Don't Have to Say	I Love You	02:17
Al Oster	Next Boat	Yukon Gold	02:41
Chevy Dirt	Nothing to Me	Western Civilization	03:04
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Keatniks	King of the Road	ST	02:47
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
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	LTD's on the Wheels of Fortune	Symphony in Effect	04:37
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Bill Bissett’s Lullaby	Motherlove	00:59
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	The Party's Over	Sings	02:43
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Tear it Up	Symphony in Effect	02:22
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	Marcelle McMahon - Sir Charles Lapier	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	03:13
Winston Hewitt	I Want to Forget	Snapshot	02:37
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Poetry is Black	The Black Tie Affair	04:16
Yank Barry	I'll Still Be Remembering You	The Diary of Mr. Gray	02:43
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Chevy Dirt	Gas Operator	Western Civilization	03:17
Ivan Burgess	If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:32
Winston Hewitt	Let Us Work Together	Just You and Me	04:33
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Lady Luck (The Darkside)	The First Cut Is The Deepest	04:03
Winston Hewitt	I'm Not the One to Cry Over You	Snapshot	03:09
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Fun Surround Dem	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:57
Winston Hewitt	Keep Movin' (Formerly-Dynagroove)	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	03:48
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	L.T.D. Makes a Toast	The Black Tie Affair	01:48
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Fortissimo	Symphony in Effect	02:32
Larena Clark	There Was a Lord in Edinburgh	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	03:27
Yank Barry	I Can't Help Feeling	The Diary of Mr. Gray	02:44
Al Oster	Yukon Gold	Yukon Gold	03:27
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Pleasure Sweets	Motherlove	04:29
Ivan Burgess	When My Love Comes (Ivan Burgess)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:23
Al Oster	One of These Days	Yukon Gold	02:24
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Just Swingin	Symphony in Effect	05:30
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
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: The Album	The First Cut Is The Deepest	00:46
Borealis	The Politician	Sons of the Sea	03:31
Northern Haze	Puigo	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	02:35
Larena Clark	The Gallant Hussar	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	03:04
Yank Barry	Introduction to the Diary of Mr. Gray (78rpm monophonic)	The Diary of Mr. Gray	03:29
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	Thanks for the Memory	Sings	02:50
Chevy Dirt	No Foolin' Around	Western Civilization	02:53
Keatniks	Long Tall Sally	ST	01:55
Borealis	Lucky Day	Sons of the Sea	03:09
Winston Hewitt	Roses Are Red	Full of Love	07:52
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	On the Jazz Tip	The Black Tie Affair	03:30
Winston Hewitt	I'm So Glad I Found You (version)	Just You and Me	02:22
Two Tones	Dark as a Dungeon	Live at the Village Corner	02:18
Get Loose Crew	Rap Vigilante (dub)	ST	04:28
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Let Your Backbone Slide (Power mix)	Symphony in Effect	04:59
Borealis	Higher	Sons of the Sea	03:27
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	I'm Drinkin' Milk Now	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	03:47

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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