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 Someone Loves You Honey Full of Love
Winston Hewitt Our Love is Fallin' I Love You
Two Tones The Fox Live at the Village Corner
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Time is Now The First Cut Is The Deepest
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Dada Lama Motherlove
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Certs Wid Out Da Retsyn Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Keatniks Here She Comes ST
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do I Love You
Willie Dunn The Little Big Horn Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8
Larena Clark Thyme ‘tis a Pretty Flower A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Get Loose Crew Wannabe (dub) ST
Winston Hewitt You Don't Have to Say I Love You
Winston Hewitt Just Let Me Be Just You and Me
Chevy Dirt Gas Operator Western Civilization
Winston Hewitt Burning Inside Snapshot
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) LTD's on the Wheels of Fortune Symphony in Effect
A Tribe Called Red General Generations ST
Winston Hewitt Do You Ever Feel Like Crying Snapshot
Winston Hewitt They Got to Come Pretty Brown Eyes
Winston Hewitt Let Us Work Together Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) I'm Drinkin' Milk Now Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Winston Hewitt I Love You Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Outro & Cut Off (Clean) The First Cut Is The Deepest
Al Oster One of These Days Yukon Gold
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Bobby Kris and the Imperials A Year From Today She Belongs to Me b/w A Year From Today
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Fakin' Jamaican The First Cut Is The Deepest
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) I'm Showin You Symphony in Effect
Singing Fools The Bum Rap The Bum Rap b/w Fire My Love (picture sleeve)
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) These Foolish Things Sings
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) The Maestro Zone The Black Tie Affair
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Gone with the Wind Sings
Borealis Business Sons of the Sea
Winston Hewitt You're My Boopsy Pretty Brown Eyes
Winston Hewitt Keep Moving I Love You
Da Slyme Defacation On The Nation ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Higher Level Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Northern Haze Sinnaktuq ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Get Loose Crew Get Loos Crew Instrumental ST
Winston Hewitt Just You and Me (version) Just You and Me
Keatniks Come a Little Bit Closer ST
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Jerry Carey - Old Erin Far Away Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Love it Or Leave it Alone The First Cut Is The Deepest
Winston Hewitt I Need a Lot of Loving Just You and Me
Winston Hewitt Stop Knocking on My Door Pretty Brown Eyes
Winston Hewitt Let Us Work Together (version) Just You and Me
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Mic Mechanism Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Northern Haze Quviasuk ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Brown Sugar Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Winston Hewitt Keep Movin' (Formerly-Dynagroove) Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Makin' Records Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
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
Northern Haze Qailaurit ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Willie Dunn Collection Blues Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8
Winston Hewitt You Don't Have to Say Your Sorry Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Get Loose Crew Wannabe ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Watchin' Zeros Grow The Black Tie Affair
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Nothin' At All (with George Banton) The Black Tie Affair
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Uncle Nigel The First Cut Is The Deepest
Winston Hewitt Say it's Allright Snapshot
Intersystems track 06 (entire side 2) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) On the Jazz Tip The Black Tie Affair
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) The Mic's My Piece Symphony in Effect
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) I'll Call You The First Cut Is The Deepest
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Ripped Mee Off The First Cut Is The Deepest
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Cut Off (Unclean) The First Cut Is The Deepest
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Pass the Champagne The Black Tie Affair
Keatniks I Could Easily Fall In Love With You ST
A Tribe Called Red Good to Go ST
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) O.J. Abbott - An Old Man He Courted Me Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Chevy Dirt No Foolin' Around Western Civilization
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Tom Brandon - Erin's Green Shore Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Our Love is Here to Stay Sings
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It (Part 2) I Love You
Keatniks King of the Road ST
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Ivan Burgess Shadowy Street (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Borealis The Politician Sons of the Sea
Winston Hewitt It's Too Late Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Keatniks Memphis ST
Chevy Dirt Shake Me Up Western Civilization
Winston Hewitt Our Love is Fallin' I Love You
Winston Hewitt I Love You I Love You
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Bill Bissett’s Lullaby Motherlove
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) I'll Take Romance Sings
Winston Hewitt Roses Are Red Full of Love
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Fine Tune Da Mic Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Care for a Night Cap? The Black Tie Affair
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) The Party's Over Sings
Yank Barry I'll Still Be Remembering You The Diary of Mr. Gray
Two Tones Fast Freight Live at the Village Corner
Chevy Dirt Western Civilization Western Civilization
Winston Hewitt I'm Not the One to Cry Over You Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Winston Hewitt I'll Get to You Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Chevy Dirt Convertible Car Western Civilization
Keatniks Bumble Boogie ST
Winston Hewitt Get on the Scene Snapshot
Al Oster Waltz of the Yukon Yukon Gold
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) The Other Woman Sings

FEATURED

bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) - Motherlove

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

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Al Oster - Yukon Gold

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

FEATURED

Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) - Sings

Mill Village, Nova Scotia, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - I Love You

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - Just You and Me

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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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

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

Les Trois Clefs

Motherlove

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

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