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
Winston Hewitt I'll Get to You Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Al Oster 918 Miles Yukon Gold
Keatniks Memphis ST
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Still Here The First Cut Is The Deepest
Ivan Burgess Outsider (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Keatniks Long Tall Sally ST
Chevy Dirt Underground Western Civilization
Chevy Dirt Little Loser Western Civilization
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Get Loose Crew Rap Vigilante ST
Two Tones Fast Freight Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It (Part 2) I Love You
Winston Hewitt Dreaming of You Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Borealis Business Sons of the Sea
Larena Clark I Once Loved a Lass A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Chevy Dirt G.T.O. Western Civilization
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It (Part 2) I Love You
Da Slyme Trudeau Sucks ST
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Outro & Cut Off (Clean) The First Cut Is The Deepest
Yank Barry Act 1: (Stereophonic) Mr. Gray The Diary of Mr. Gray
Al Oster Next Boat Yukon Gold
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Gone with the Wind Sings
Get Loose Crew Protocol of Rap ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Pray To Da East Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Two Tones Children Go Where I Send Thee Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt Our Love is Fallin' I Love You
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Let Your Backbone Slide (Power mix) Symphony in Effect
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Check My Vernacular Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Two Tones Sinnerman Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Winston Hewitt In My Flying Machine Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Chevy Dirt Nothing to Me Western Civilization
Winston Hewitt Let it Be Pretty Brown Eyes
Two Tones Summer Love Live at the Village Corner
Keatniks King of the Road ST
Al Oster Trail of '98 Yukon Gold
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Stanley Baby - A Long Awa' Ship Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Irene McNeil Noël en Italie Mademoiselle Rythme
Two Tones Copper Kettle Live at the Village Corner
Get Loose Crew Rap Vigilante (dub) ST
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
A Tribe Called Red Good to Go ST
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Cover Girl The First Cut Is The Deepest
Two Tones Kilgarry Mountain Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt Just You and Me Just You and Me
Larena Clark The Old Country Fair A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: The Album The First Cut Is The Deepest
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) I'm Drinkin' Milk Now Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Larena Clark The Gallant Hussar A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Winston Hewitt Reggae Medley Reggae Medley
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Private Symphony Symphony in Effect
Ivan Burgess When My Love Comes (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Northern Haze Inusivut ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Northern Haze Puigo ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
A Tribe Called Red Electric pow wow drum ST
Borealis In the End Sons of the Sea
Winston Hewitt I Love You Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) M.L.’s Dream Motherlove
Borealis Sons for the Sea Sons of the Sea
Keatniks Laudie, Laudie Miss Claudie ST
Ivan Burgess Pendant que (Gilles Vigneault) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Irene McNeil Rock’n roll du Père Noël (Boogie woogie Santa Claus) Mademoiselle Rythme
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Don't Wanna be Your Slave The First Cut Is The Deepest
Two Tones Lord I'm So Weary Live at the Village Corner
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Jerry Carey - Old Erin Far Away Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Two Tones The Fox Live at the Village Corner
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Fakin' Jamaican The First Cut Is The Deepest
Winston Hewitt No Other Girl I Love You
Winston Hewitt Get on the Scene Snapshot
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do I Love You
Two Tones Dark as a Dungeon Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt Do You Ever Feel Like Crying Snapshot
Winston Hewitt I'm Not the One to Cry Over You Snapshot
Singing Fools The Bum Rap The Bum Rap b/w Fire My Love (picture sleeve)
Winston Hewitt Stop Knocking on My Door Pretty Brown Eyes
Northern Haze Qailaurit ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
Ivan Burgess I Want to Live (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Marcelle McMahon - Sir Charles Lapier Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Al Oster Yukon Cheechako Yukon Gold
Intersystems track 01 (entire side 1) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Certs Wid Out Da Retsyn Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Cut Off (Unclean) The First Cut Is The Deepest
Winston Hewitt Can't You Hear Me Snapshot
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Just Swingin Symphony in Effect
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Spice This! The First Cut Is The Deepest
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) STHNLA Motherlove
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do I Love You
Winston Hewitt I Love You I Love You
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) I'm Showin You Symphony in Effect
Al Oster Fair Weather Friend Yukon Gold
Irene McNeil Rock a Beatin' Boogie (Bill Haley) Mademoiselle Rythme
Winston Hewitt Jane I'm Not the Same I Love You
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Historical Implications of Turnips Motherlove
Al Oster Midnight Sun Rock Yukon Gold
Winston Hewitt Jane I'm Not the Same I Love You
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Child in Me Motherlove
Irene McNeil Ce rythme le Rock n' roll (Ivory Joe Hunter) Adaptation de "You can’t stop this rocking and rolling" Mademoiselle Rythme
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It I Love You
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Fortissimo Symphony in Effect

FEATURED

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

Lumsden, Saskatchewan → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

A Tribe Called Red - ST

Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Al Oster - Yukon Gold

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

FEATURED

Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) - Sings

Mill Village, Nova Scotia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

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

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Winston Hewitt - Reggae Medley

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Winston Hewitt - Pretty Brown Eyes

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Winston Hewitt - Snapshot

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Winston Hewitt - I Love You

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Winston Hewitt - Just You and Me

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Winston Hewitt - Full of Love

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) - Motherlove

FEATURED

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

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

FEATURED

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

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

Northern Haze

Northern Haze-LABEL 02

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