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
A Tribe Called Red Red Skin Girl (ATCR Remix) ST
Borealis Tomorrow Morning Sons of the Sea
Al Oster One of These Days Yukon Gold
Chevy Dirt Gas Operator Western Civilization
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Just One of Those Things Sings
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Said Chuck The First Cut Is The Deepest
Winston Hewitt Just You and Me (version) Just You and Me
Yank Barry I Can't Help Feeling The Diary of Mr. Gray
Willie Dunn Collection Blues Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Incest Song Motherlove
Yank Barry Introduction to the Diary of Mr. Gray (78rpm monophonic) The Diary of Mr. Gray
Chevy Dirt Shake Me Up Western Civilization
Keatniks Here She Comes ST
Irene McNeil Rock a Beatin' Boogie (Bill Haley) Mademoiselle Rythme
Borealis The Politician Sons of the Sea
Winston Hewitt What Am I Living For Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: The Album The First Cut Is The Deepest
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Watchin' Zeros Grow The Black Tie Affair
Willie Dunn Poundmaker Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Mrs. Tom Sullivan - I Love Little Willie Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Northern Haze Inusivut ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Higher Level Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Winston Hewitt Stealin' Love Pretty Brown Eyes
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Tom Brandon - Erin's Green Shore Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Drop the Needle Symphony in Effect
Winston Hewitt Love is the Answer Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Pass the Champagne The Black Tie Affair
Ivan Burgess I Want to Live (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Ivan Burgess If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Winston Hewitt They Got to Come Pretty Brown Eyes
Winston Hewitt Our Love Is Fallin' Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Larena Clark There Was a Lord in Edinburgh A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Mic Mechanism Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Mrs. Gordon Clark - I'll Go See My Love Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Fun Surround Dem The First Cut Is The Deepest
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) It's a Great Day Sings
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Time is Now The First Cut Is The Deepest
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Spice This! The First Cut Is The Deepest
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do I Love You
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) The Maestro Symphony in Effect
Chevy Dirt Western Civilization Western Civilization
Keatniks I Could Easily Fall In Love With You ST
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Free The First Cut Is The Deepest
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) L.T.D. Makes a Toast The Black Tie Affair
Larena Clark The House Carpenter A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Al Oster Words Will Never Tell Yukon Gold
Ivan Burgess Pendant que (Gilles Vigneault) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Thanks for the Memory Sings
Winston Hewitt You Don't Have to Say Your Sorry Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Bring It On (Remix) Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Two Tones Kilgarry Mountain Live at the Village Corner
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Bill Bissett’s Lullaby Motherlove
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Cover Girl The First Cut Is The Deepest
Borealis Old Age Sons of the Sea
Keatniks Three Long Days and Nights ST
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Winston Hewitt High School Dance Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Irene McNeil Dis-moi que tu m’aimes (Tell me that you love me) Mademoiselle Rythme
Keatniks Bumble Boogie ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Just Swingin Symphony in Effect
Winston Hewitt It Feel So Good Full of Love
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It (Part 2) I Love You
Ivan Burgess The Call (Gene MacLellan) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Chevy Dirt G.T.O. Western Civilization
Larena Clark The Banks of the Nile A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) O.J. Abbott - The Weaver Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Tear it Up Symphony in Effect
Winston Hewitt You Don't Have to Say I Love You
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) These Foolish Things Sings
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Love it Or Leave it Alone The First Cut Is The Deepest
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) John Leahy - The Banks of Inverness Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Singing Fools The Bum Rap The Bum Rap b/w Fire My Love (picture sleeve)
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Winston Hewitt I Need a Lot of Loving Just You and Me
Ivan Burgess Outsider (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Bob Regan & the Peace River Rangers Teenage Boogie Teenage Boogie b/w I Will Never Hold Another
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Untouchable Symphony in Effect
Get Loose Crew Get Loos Crew Instrumental ST
Chevy Dirt Underground Western Civilization
Northern Haze Sinnaktuq ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Borealis Higher Sons of the Sea
Two Tones Summer Love Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt You're the One I Love Pretty Brown Eyes
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) LTD's on the Wheels of Fortune Symphony in Effect
Borealis In the End Sons of the Sea
Keatniks King of the Road ST
Keatniks That's My Girl ST
Borealis Broke Sons of the Sea
Al Oster Waltz of the Yukon Yukon Gold
Winston Hewitt I Don't Need Your Love Snapshot
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) The Happiest Girl in the World Sings
Get Loose Crew Protocol of Rap (dub) ST
Winston Hewitt Revalution Rock Reggae Medley
John Oswald Pretender (Oparton - Oswald) Plunderphonics
Get Loose Crew Wannabe ST
Winston Hewitt Burning Inside Snapshot
Winston Hewitt Sugar Sugar Pretty Brown Eyes
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Conductin' Thangs The Black Tie Affair

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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