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	Someone Loves You Honey	Full of Love	04:49
John Oswald	Pretender (Oparton - Oswald)	Plunderphonics	02:44
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Cut Off (Unclean)	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:30
Winston Hewitt	Just You and Me	Just You and Me	02:37
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	These Foolish Things	Sings	03:02
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Brown Sugar	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:31
Winston Hewitt	It's Too Late	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:49
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	Just One of Those Things	Sings	02:27
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	The Party's Over	Sings	02:43
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
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Nothin' At All (with George Banton)	The Black Tie Affair	05:03
Borealis	Higher	Sons of the Sea	03:27
Keatniks	Three Long Days and Nights	ST	02:53
Borealis	Business	Sons of the Sea	04:44
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	Jerry Carey - Old Erin Far Away	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	02:41
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Poetry is Black	The Black Tie Affair	04:16
Singing Fools	The Bum Rap	The Bum Rap b/w Fire My Love (picture sleeve)	04:21
Get Loose Crew	Get Loose Crew	ST	05:01
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	O.J. Abbott - An Old Man He Courted Me	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	02:16
Winston Hewitt	Since I Met You Baby	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	04:04
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	I'll Call You	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:03
Winston Hewitt	Let Us Work Together (version)	Just You and Me	03:54
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Watchin' Zeros Grow	The Black Tie Affair	05:31
Winston Hewitt	Say it's Allright	Snapshot	02:33
Get Loose Crew	Rap Vigilante	ST	04:30
Winston Hewitt	There's No Love in the World Today	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	04:10
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	John Leahy - The Banks of Inverness	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	02:06
Winston Hewitt	What Am I Living For	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:42
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	Our Love is Here to Stay	Sings	02:10
Winston Hewitt	I Love You	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	03:53
Keatniks	Laudie, Laudie Miss Claudie	ST	02:33
Al Oster	918 Miles	Yukon Gold	02:15
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	The Maestro Zone	The Black Tie Affair	05:15
Winston Hewitt	The Same One	Full of Love	04:18
Yank Barry	I Can't Help Feeling	The Diary of Mr. Gray	02:44
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Cover Girl	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:23
A Tribe Called Red	Native puppy love	ST	03:41
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Care for a Night Cap?	The Black Tie Affair	01:07
Two Tones	Sinnerman	Live at the Village Corner	02:52
Al Oster	Trail of '98	Yukon Gold	02:37
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	O.J. Abbott - The Weaver	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	01:37
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	The Mic's My Piece	Symphony in Effect	06:00
Winston Hewitt	Just Let Me Be	Just You and Me	03:04
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: Spice This!	The First Cut Is The Deepest	00:26
Winston Hewitt	Reggae Medley	Reggae Medley	08:35
Winston Hewitt	Jane I'm Not the Same	I Love You	03:27
Irene McNeil	Dis-moi que tu m’aimes (Tell me that you love me)	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:11
Ivan Burgess	Mon Pays (Gilles Vigneault)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:36
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Fun Surround Dem	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:57
Larena Clark	Thyme ‘tis a Pretty Flower	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	01:13
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	V.I.P.'s Only (with K-4CE)	The Black Tie Affair	03:47
Get Loose Crew	Wannabe (dub)	ST	04:36
Borealis	Tomorrow Morning	Sons of the Sea	05:22
Borealis	Lucky Day	Sons of the Sea	03:09
Winston Hewitt	I'm Gonna Love You Tonight (version)	Just You and Me	03:02
Winston Hewitt	I'll Get to You	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:12
Ivan Burgess	The Call (Gene MacLellan)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:31
Chevy Dirt	Shake Me Up	Western Civilization	02:18
Two Tones	Fast Freight	Live at the Village Corner	03:48
Al Oster	Fair Weather Friend	Yukon Gold	02:28
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	The Other Woman	Sings	02:33
Irene McNeil	Sois gentil (Adaptation de "Treat me nice" interprétée par Elvis dans le film Jailhouse rock)	Mademoiselle Rythme	01:59
Larena Clark	Lord Gregory	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	04:07
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Private Symphony (Remix)	The Black Tie Affair	05:11
Northern Haze	Anivunga	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	02:02
Chevy Dirt	Underground	Western Civilization	03:47
Winston Hewitt	In My Flying Machine	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:46
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Check My Vernacular	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	03:15
Northern Haze	Puigo	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	02:35
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	Orlo Brandon - The Green Briar Shore	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	02:26
Chevy Dirt	Western Civilization	Western Civilization	02:35
Chevy Dirt	No Foolin' Around	Western Civilization	02:53
Winston Hewitt	Burning Inside	Snapshot	02:43
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Bill Bissett’s Lullaby	Motherlove	00:59
A Tribe Called Red	Look at This	ST	06:15
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	Come Rain or Come Shine	Sings	02:02
Winston Hewitt	Our Love Is Fallin'	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:46
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight It	I Love You	02:28
Borealis	Another Boy	Sons of the Sea	05:10
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight It (Part 2)	I Love You	02:50
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Free	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:34
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Let Your Backbone Slide (Power mix)	Symphony in Effect	04:59
Winston Hewitt	I Love You	I Love You	03:50
Winston Hewitt	I Need a Lot of Loving	Just You and Me	02:18
Winston Hewitt	Let it Be	Pretty Brown Eyes	04:14
Two Tones	Calypso Baby	Live at the Village Corner	02:06
Winston Hewitt	What More Can I Do	I Love You	03:01
Irene McNeil	Noël en Italie	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:40
Winston Hewitt	Get on the Scene	Snapshot	03:21
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	Gone with the Wind	Sings	03:37
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Higher Level	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	03:20
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	Tom Brandon - The Spree	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	01:04
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Tear it Up	Symphony in Effect	02:22
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	"Dat's My Nigga!!"	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:05
Bobby Kris and the Imperials	A Year From Today	She Belongs to Me b/w A Year From Today	02:29
Get Loose Crew	Wannabe	ST	04:34
Al Oster	I Wonder What Your Eyes Will Say	Yukon Gold	01:59
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	A Hum for Stevie Winwood	Motherlove	00:39
Larena Clark	The Faggot Cutter	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	02:28

Canadian Pioneers

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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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