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
Winston Hewitt	I Love You	I Love You	03:50
Two Tones	We Come Here to Sing	Live at the Village Corner	02:34
Winston Hewitt	Just You and Me	Just You and Me	02:37
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: Said Chuck	The First Cut Is The Deepest	01:00
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Private Symphony (Remix)	The Black Tie Affair	05:11
Winston Hewitt	Do You Remember	Snapshot	02:17
Winston Hewitt	Burning Inside	Snapshot	02:43
Winston Hewitt	In My Flying Machine	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:46
Keatniks	Long Tall Sally	ST	01:55
Keatniks	Here She Comes	ST	01:52
Winston Hewitt	Love is the Answer	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	04:43
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	I'm Drinkin' Milk Now	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	03:47
Irene McNeil	Noël en Italie	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:40
Get Loose Crew	Wannabe	ST	04:34
Keatniks	Laudie, Laudie Miss Claudie	ST	02:33
Winston Hewitt	Our Love Is Fallin'	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:46
Winston Hewitt	High School Dance	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:04
Winston Hewitt	Keep Movin' (Formerly-Dynagroove)	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	03:48
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Ripped Mee Off	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:59
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Historical Implications of Turnips	Motherlove	00:24
Winston Hewitt	It Feel So Good	Full of Love	04:01
Borealis	Broke	Sons of the Sea	03:18
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Winston Hewitt	You Don't Have to Say	I Love You	02:17
Winston Hewitt	Say it's Allright	Snapshot	02:33
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	These Foolish Things	Sings	03:02
Willie Dunn	Collection Blues	Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8	04:34
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight It	I Love You	02:28
Larena Clark	Thyme ‘tis a Pretty Flower	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	01:13
Two Tones	Copper Kettle	Live at the Village Corner	03:34
Keatniks	As Long As I Have You	ST	02:08
Ivan Burgess	Outsider (Ivan Burgess)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	03:32
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	A Hum for Stevie Winwood	Motherlove	00:39
Ivan Burgess	Mon Pays (Gilles Vigneault)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:36
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Pray To Da East	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:38
Two Tones	The Fox	Live at the Village Corner	02:32
Keatniks	Come a Little Bit Closer	ST	02:59
Al Oster	Words Will Never Tell	Yukon Gold	02:09
Get Loose Crew	Rap Vigilante	ST	04:30
Winston Hewitt	Jane (I'm Not the Same)	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	03:27
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Nothin' At All (with George Banton)	The Black Tie Affair	05:03
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	I'll Take Romance	Sings	02:21
Get Loose Crew	Wannabe (dub)	ST	04:36
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	I'm the One	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:01
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	The Maestro	Symphony in Effect	03:48
Larena Clark	The Gallant Hussar	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	03:04
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Fortissimo	Symphony in Effect	02:32
Irene McNeil	Reviens Vers Moi (Return to Me)	Mademoiselle Rythme	01:59
Al Oster	918 Miles	Yukon Gold	02:15
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	The Child in Me	Motherlove	00:47
Winston Hewitt	I Love You More Than I Can Say	Full of Love	04:04
Winston Hewitt	I'll Get to You	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:12
Winston Hewitt	Let Us Work Together (version)	Just You and Me	03:54
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
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	How Many Styles	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:37
Winston Hewitt	Roses Are Red	Full of Love	07:52
Keatniks	Bumble Boogie	ST	02:08
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	The Happiest Girl in the World	Sings	02:47
A Tribe Called Red	Look at This	ST	06:15
John Oswald	Spring (Stravinsky - Oswald	Plunderphonics	02:45
Winston Hewitt	It's Too Late	Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late	03:48
Two Tones	Sinnerman	Live at the Village Corner	02:52
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Love it Or Leave it Alone	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:29
Keatniks	Three Long Days and Nights	ST	02:53
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	Just One of Those Things	Sings	02:27
Chevy Dirt	Underground	Western Civilization	03:47
Ivan Burgess	Minstrel of the Dawn (Gordon Lightfoot)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	03:11
Winston Hewitt	I'm Not the One to Cry Over You	Snapshot	03:09
Get Loose Crew	Rap Vigilante (dub)	ST	04:28
Da Slyme	Trudeau Sucks	ST	00:58
John Oswald	Pretender (Oparton - Oswald)	Plunderphonics	02:44
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	Mrs. Tom Sullivan - I Love Little Willie	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	00:52
A Tribe Called Red	Red Skin Girl (ATCR Remix)	ST	05:17
Winston Hewitt	Jane I'm Not the Same	I Love You	03:27
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight It (Part 2)	I Love You	02:50
Orphic Egg	Crack It	Crack It b/w Crack It	03:26
Winston Hewitt	Let Us Work Together	Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late	08:46
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Pass the Champagne	The Black Tie Affair	04:54
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Check My Vernacular	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	03:15
Larena Clark	The Rifle Boys	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	03:46
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Larena Clark	Lord Gregory	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	04:07
Get Loose Crew	Get Loos Crew Instrumental	ST	05:00
Winston Hewitt	You're the One I Love	Pretty Brown Eyes	06:49
Borealis	In the End	Sons of the Sea	02:31
A Tribe Called Red	Intertribal n1	ST	03:28
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Your Daughter	The First Cut Is The Deepest	04:02
Get Loose Crew	Protocol of Rap (dub)	ST	04:54
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
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	The Black Tie Affair	The Black Tie Affair	04:26
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	The Maestro Zone	The Black Tie Affair	05:15
Irene McNeil	Bon Voyage	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:34
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Don't Wanna be Your Slave	The First Cut Is The Deepest	04:33
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight It	I Love You	02:28
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Makin' Records	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:52
Northern Haze	Quviasuk	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	02:28
A Tribe Called Red	Munchi -Shottas (A Tribe Called Red SocaCore remix)	ST	05:48
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Time is Now	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:13
Irene McNeil	Dis-moi que tu m’aimes (Tell me that you love me)	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:11
Winston Hewitt	You Don't Have to Say	I Love You	02:17

Canadian Pioneers

Tracks

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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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bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) - Motherlove

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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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