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
Al Oster Fair Weather Friend Yukon Gold
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do I Love You
Northern Haze Puigo ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Ivan Burgess Shadowy Street (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Two Tones Sinnerman Live at the Village Corner
Borealis Broke Sons of the Sea
Irene McNeil Rock’n roll du Père Noël (Boogie woogie Santa Claus) Mademoiselle Rythme
Les Trois Clefs Le Rock 'N roll du samedi soir Le Rock 'N roll du samedi soir // Innamorata
Yank Barry I Can't Help Feeling The Diary of Mr. Gray
John Oswald Spring (Stravinsky - Oswald Plunderphonics
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It I Love You
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) V.I.P.'s Only (with K-4CE) The Black Tie Affair
Da Slyme Defacation On The Nation ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) LTD's on the Wheels of Fortune Symphony in Effect
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Tom Brandon - Erin's Green Shore Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) M.L.’s Dream Motherlove
Winston Hewitt Revalution Rock Reggae Medley
Willie Dunn Collection Blues Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Fakin' Jamaican The First Cut Is The Deepest
Winston Hewitt I'm So Glad I Found You Just You and Me
Winston Hewitt It's Too Late Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Chevy Dirt Western Civilization Western Civilization
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Spice This! The First Cut Is The Deepest
Two Tones We Come Here to Sing Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt You Don't Have to Say Your Sorry Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Care for a Night Cap? The Black Tie Affair
Winston Hewitt Just You and Me (version) Just You and Me
Winston Hewitt I Love You More Than I Can Say Full of Love
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Marcelle McMahon - Sir Charles Lapier Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Chevy Dirt No Foolin' Around Western Civilization
Get Loose Crew Protocol of Rap ST
Two Tones Kilgarry Mountain Live at the Village Corner
Al Oster Words Will Never Tell Yukon Gold
Irene McNeil Noël en Italie Mademoiselle Rythme
Winston Hewitt Since I Met You Baby Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
A Tribe Called Red Munchi -Shottas (A Tribe Called Red SocaCore remix) ST
A Tribe Called Red Woodcarver ST
Winston Hewitt Do You Ever Feel Like Crying Snapshot
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Cover Girl The First Cut Is The Deepest
Da Slyme squeeze my blackhead ST
A Tribe Called Red Good to Go ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) The Maestro Symphony in Effect
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Our Love is Here to Stay Sings
Keatniks As Long As I Have You ST
Al Oster I Wonder What Your Eyes Will Say Yukon Gold
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Love it Or Leave it Alone The First Cut Is The Deepest
Keatniks Bumble Boogie ST
Al Oster Yukon Cheechako Yukon Gold
Two Tones Calypso Baby Live at the Village Corner
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) I'll Call You The First Cut Is The Deepest
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Pass the Champagne The Black Tie Affair
Winston Hewitt Can't You Hear Me Snapshot
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Lady Luck (The Darkside) The First Cut Is The Deepest
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Just One of Those Things Sings
A Tribe Called Red Intertribal n1 ST
Winston Hewitt Stop Knocking on My Door Pretty Brown Eyes
Winston Hewitt There's No Love in the World Today Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Al Oster Trail of '98 Yukon Gold
Winston Hewitt Get on the Scene Snapshot
Intersystems track 01 (entire side 1) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Winston Hewitt Our Love is Fallin' I Love You
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) John Leahy - The Banks of Inverness Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Winston Hewitt Let it Be Pretty Brown Eyes
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Mic Mechanism Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Don't Wanna be Your Slave The First Cut Is The Deepest
Larena Clark Rattle on the Stovepipe A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Winston Hewitt Keep Moving I Love You
Winston Hewitt I Don't Need Your Love Snapshot
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Tom Brandon - The Spree Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Winston Hewitt Do You Ever Feel Like Crying Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) L.T.D. Makes a Toast The Black Tie Affair
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Time is Now The First Cut Is The Deepest
Winston Hewitt Love is the Answer Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Hey There Sings
Winston Hewitt Just Let Me Be Just You and Me
Larena Clark The Old Country Fair A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It I Love You
Winston Hewitt You're the One I Love Pretty Brown Eyes
Yank Barry Introduction to the Diary of Mr. Gray (78rpm monophonic) The Diary of Mr. Gray
Winston Hewitt Let Us Work Together (version) Just You and Me
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Personal Assistant The First Cut Is The Deepest
Winston Hewitt Jane I'm Not the Same I Love You
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) The Mic's My Piece Symphony in Effect
Northern Haze Qailaurit ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Winston Hewitt You're My Boopsy Pretty Brown Eyes
Two Tones Lord I'm So Weary Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt I Want to Forget Snapshot
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Fine Tune Da Mic Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Borealis Lucky Day Sons of the Sea
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Nothin' At All (with George Banton) The Black Tie Affair
Winston Hewitt I Need a Lot of Loving Just You and Me
Al Oster One of These Days Yukon Gold
Al Oster Midnight Sun Rock Yukon Gold
Two Tones The Fox Live at the Village Corner
Two Tones Dark as a Dungeon Live at the Village Corner
Northern Haze Nutaraq ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Larena Clark The House Carpenter A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Winston Hewitt It's Too Late Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late

FEATURED

bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) - Motherlove

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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

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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