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
Get Loose Crew	Get Loose Crew	ST	05:01
Keatniks	That's My Girl	ST	01:29
Winston Hewitt	Our Love is Fallin'	I Love You	02:46
Ivan Burgess	Minstrel of the Dawn (Gordon Lightfoot)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	03:11
Winston Hewitt	The Same One	Full of Love	04:18
Winston Hewitt	No Other Girl	I Love You	02:45
Winston Hewitt	Can't You Hear Me	Snapshot	02:46
Irene McNeil	Bon Voyage	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:34
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Private Symphony	Symphony in Effect	05:43
Winston Hewitt	Reggae Medley	Reggae Medley	08:35
Winston Hewitt	Someone Loves You Honey	Full of Love	04:49
Larena Clark	There Was a Lord in Edinburgh	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	03:27
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Check My Vernacular	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	03:15
Winston Hewitt	Just You and Me	Just You and Me	02:37
Chevy Dirt	Convertible Car	Western Civilization	03:26
Borealis	In the End	Sons of the Sea	02:31
Winston Hewitt	I Love You	I Love You	03:50
Borealis	Another Boy	Sons of the Sea	05:10
Borealis	Tomorrow Morning	Sons of the Sea	05:22
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	On the Jazz Tip	The Black Tie Affair	03:30
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: Spice This!	The First Cut Is The Deepest	00:26
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	V.I.P.'s Only (with K-4CE)	The Black Tie Affair	03:47
Da Slyme	squeeze my blackhead	ST	02:35
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
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Don't Wanna be Your Slave	The First Cut Is The Deepest	04:33
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Poetry is Black	The Black Tie Affair	04:16
Larena Clark	The Rifle Boys	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	03:46
Yank Barry	Introduction to the Diary of Mr. Gray (78rpm monophonic)	The Diary of Mr. Gray	03:29
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: Uncle Nigel	The First Cut Is The Deepest	01:15
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Brown Sugar	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:31
Winston Hewitt	Just You and Me (version)	Just You and Me	02:37
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
Ivan Burgess	If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:32
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Historical Implications of Turnips	Motherlove	00:24
Winston Hewitt	I'm So Glad I Found You (version)	Just You and Me	02:22
Larena Clark	Thyme ‘tis a Pretty Flower	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	01:13
Yank Barry	I'll Still Be Remembering You	The Diary of Mr. Gray	02:43
Ivan Burgess	Mon Pays (Gilles Vigneault)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:36
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsy	Pretty Brown Eyes	04:53
Chevy Dirt	Nothing to Me	Western Civilization	03:04
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Let Your Backbone Slide (Power mix)	Symphony in Effect	04:59
Irene McNeil	Reviens Vers Moi (Return to Me)	Mademoiselle Rythme	01:59
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight it (Part Two)	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:27
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Private Symphony (Remix)	The Black Tie Affair	05:11
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Ripped Mee Off	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:59
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Winston Hewitt	It's Too Late	Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late	03:48
Winston Hewitt	I'm Gonna Love You Tonight	Just You and Me	03:03
Orphic Egg	Crack It	Crack It b/w Crack It	03:40
Winston Hewitt	Jane I'm Not the Same	I Love You	03:27
Ivan Burgess	Outsider (Ivan Burgess)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	03:32
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Fine Tune Da Mic	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	03:47
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	The Mic's My Piece	Symphony in Effect	06:00
Borealis	Sons for the Sea	Sons of the Sea	03:53
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Time is Now	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:13
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
Winston Hewitt	I'm So Glad I Found You	Just You and Me	02:19
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight It	I Love You	02:28
Winston Hewitt	You Don't Have to Say	I Love You	02:17
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Makin' Records	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:52
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Chevy Dirt	Underground	Western Civilization	03:47
Ivan Burgess	I Want to Live (Ivan Burgess)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:15
A Tribe Called Red	Good to Go	ST	04:20
Two Tones	Dark as a Dungeon	Live at the Village Corner	02:18
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Care for a Night Cap?	The Black Tie Affair	01:07
Irene McNeil	Rock’n roll du Père Noël (Boogie woogie Santa Claus)	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:02
Winston Hewitt	Our Love is Fallin'	I Love You	02:46
Winston Hewitt	Stealin' Love	Pretty Brown Eyes	05:24
Winston Hewitt	I Love You More Than I Can Say	Full of Love	04:04
A Tribe Called Red	Woodcarver	ST	05:12
Get Loose Crew	Wannabe (dub)	ST	04:36
Singing Fools	The Bum Rap	The Bum Rap b/w Fire My Love (picture sleeve)	04:21
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	Our Love is Here to Stay	Sings	02:10
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	Gone with the Wind	Sings	03:37
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	"Dat's My Nigga!!"	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:05
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Watchin' Zeros Grow	The Black Tie Affair	05:31
Borealis	Broke	Sons of the Sea	03:18
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	Tom Brandon - Erin's Green Shore	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	03:15
Chevy Dirt	G.T.O.	Western Civilization	02:13
Winston Hewitt	Dreaming of You	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:36
Winston Hewitt	Let it Be	Pretty Brown Eyes	04:14
Winston Hewitt	I'll Get to You	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:12
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: Said Chuck	The First Cut Is The Deepest	01:00
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Pleasure Sweets	Motherlove	04:29
A Tribe Called Red	Red Skin Girl (ATCR Remix)	ST	05:17
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: The Album	The First Cut Is The Deepest	00:46
Winston Hewitt	Let Us Work Together (version)	Just You and Me	03:54
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Dada Lama	Motherlove	03:06
Winston Hewitt	Keep Moving	I Love You	03:31
John Oswald	Pocket (Basie - Oswald)	Plunderphonics	04:26
A Tribe Called Red	Electric pow wow drum	ST	03:37
Bob Regan & the Peace River Rangers	Teenage Boogie	Teenage Boogie b/w I Will Never Hold Another	02:26
Winston Hewitt	You Don't Have to Say Your Sorry	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:27
Da Slyme	Trudeau Sucks	ST	00:58
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Fun Surround Dem	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:57
A Tribe Called Red	General Generations	ST	03:20
Intersystems	track 01 (entire side 1)	Free Psychadelic Poster Inside	27:30
Northern Haze	Uvaguk	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	03:45
Al Oster	I Wonder What Your Eyes Will Say	Yukon Gold	01:59

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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