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
Irene McNeil	Rock’n roll du Père Noël (Boogie woogie Santa Claus)	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:02
Winston Hewitt	Do You Ever Feel Like Crying	Snapshot	02:21
Borealis	Lucky Day	Sons of the Sea	03:09
Winston Hewitt	High School Dance	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:04
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	The Party's Over	Sings	02:43
Winston Hewitt	No Other Girl	I Love You	02:45
Ivan Burgess	When My Love Comes (Ivan Burgess)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:23
Keatniks	Long Tall Sally	ST	01:55
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: The Album	The First Cut Is The Deepest	00:46
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	Mrs. Gordon Clark - I'll Go See My Love	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	02:58
Irene McNeil	Reviens Vers Moi (Return to Me)	Mademoiselle Rythme	01:59
Keatniks	Memphis	ST	02:22
Winston Hewitt	Revalution Rock	Reggae Medley	03:40
Al Oster	Fair Weather Friend	Yukon Gold	02:28
Larena Clark	I Once Loved a Lass	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	03:32
A Tribe Called Red	Good to Go	ST	04:20
Winston Hewitt	Shoo-ba-do-ba-do-ba	Pretty Brown Eyes	04:27
Winston Hewitt	Just Let Me Be	Just You and Me	03:04
Northern Haze	Inusivut	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	03:14
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Free	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:34
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight It	I Love You	02:28
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: Fakin' Jamaican	The First Cut Is The Deepest	01:00
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Care for a Night Cap?	The Black Tie Affair	01:07
Winston Hewitt	No Other Girl	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:46
Chevy Dirt	Little Loser	Western Civilization	03:28
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Bill Bissett’s Lullaby	Motherlove	00:59
Da Slyme	Trudeau Sucks	ST	00:58
Winston Hewitt	Lonely Street	Reggae Medley	02:18
Winston Hewitt	Dreaming of You	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:36
John Oswald	Pretender (Oparton - Oswald)	Plunderphonics	02:44
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	The Other Woman	Sings	02:33
Northern Haze	Puigo	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	02:35
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: Spice This!	The First Cut Is The Deepest	00:26
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	The Maestro	Symphony in Effect	03:48
Northern Haze	Quviasuk	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	02:28
Winston Hewitt	I Love You More Than I Can Say	Full of Love	04:04
Ivan Burgess	Miss Marianne (Ivan Burgess)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:51
Keatniks	Laudie, Laudie Miss Claudie	ST	02:33
Larena Clark	The Banks of the Nile	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	01:56
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	I'll Call You	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:03
Al Oster	Yukon Cheechako	Yukon Gold	02:52
Northern Haze	Trust	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	03:12
Willie Dunn	Poundmaker	Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8	08:23
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	I'm the One	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:01
Ivan Burgess	Outsider (Ivan Burgess)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	03:32
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Winston Hewitt	I Love You	I Love You	03:50
Chevy Dirt	Shake Me Up	Western Civilization	02:18
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight It (Part 2)	I Love You	02:50
Ivan Burgess	I Want to Live (Ivan Burgess)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:15
Yank Barry	Introduction to the Diary of Mr. Gray (78rpm monophonic)	The Diary of Mr. Gray	03:29
Al Oster	918 Miles	Yukon Gold	02:15
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Dada Lama	Motherlove	03:06
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	The Maestro Zone	The Black Tie Affair	05:15
Chevy Dirt	G.T.O.	Western Civilization	02:13
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Pleasure Sweets	Motherlove	04:29
Chevy Dirt	Western Civilization	Western Civilization	02:35
Al Oster	Words Will Never Tell	Yukon Gold	02:09
A Tribe Called Red	Native puppy love	ST	03:41
Winston Hewitt	In My Flying Machine	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:46
Get Loose Crew	Wannabe	ST	04:34
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	The Black Tie Affair	The Black Tie Affair	04:26
Two Tones	We Come Here to Sing	Live at the Village Corner	02:34
Two Tones	Children Go Where I Send Thee	Live at the Village Corner	02:37
Larena Clark	The Rifle Boys	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	03:46
Yank Barry	I'll Still Be Remembering You	The Diary of Mr. Gray	02:43
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	It's a Great Day	Sings	02:08
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Mic Mechanism	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:15
Winston Hewitt	You're the One I Love	Pretty Brown Eyes	06:49
Winston Hewitt	What More Can I Do	I Love You	03:01
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
Winston Hewitt	Do You Ever Feel Like Crying	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	02:23
Borealis	Sons for the Sea	Sons of the Sea	03:53
Larena Clark	Lord Gregory	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	04:07
Two Tones	The Fox	Live at the Village Corner	02:32
Borealis	Tomorrow Morning	Sons of the Sea	05:22
Winston Hewitt	What More Can I Do	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:59
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight it (Part One)	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:52
Al Oster	Trail of '98	Yukon Gold	02:37
Winston Hewitt	The Same One	Full of Love	04:18
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Drop the Needle	Symphony in Effect	05:46
Winston Hewitt	I'm Gonna Love You Tonight (version)	Just You and Me	03:02
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight It	I Love You	02:28
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Watchin' Zeros Grow	The Black Tie Affair	05:31
Winston Hewitt	Pretty Brown Eyes	Pretty Brown Eyes	03:37
Two Tones	This is My Song	Live at the Village Corner	02:19
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	Gone with the Wind	Sings	03:37
A Tribe Called Red	Look at This	ST	06:15
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: Personal Assistant	The First Cut Is The Deepest	01:35
Borealis	Old Age	Sons of the Sea	03:01
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	Tom Brandon - The Spree	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	01:04
Get Loose Crew	Get Loose Crew	ST	05:01
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
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Fortissimo	Symphony in Effect	02:32
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	I'm Showin You	Symphony in Effect	04:51
Winston Hewitt	I'm Not the One to Cry Over You	Snapshot	03:09
Al Oster	Yukon Gold	Yukon Gold	03:27
Irene McNeil	Dis-moi que tu m’aimes (Tell me that you love me)	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:11
Winston Hewitt	Our Love Is Fallin'	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:46
Keatniks	Here She Comes	ST	01:52

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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