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
Ivan Burgess	Shadowy Street (Ivan Burgess)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:16
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	I'm Drinkin' Milk Now	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	03:47
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Fortissimo	Symphony in Effect	02:32
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Let Your Backbone Slide (Power mix)	Symphony in Effect	04:59
Borealis	Broke	Sons of the Sea	03:18
Winston Hewitt	In My Flying Machine	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:46
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Pass the Champagne	The Black Tie Affair	04:54
Irene McNeil	Sois gentil (Adaptation de "Treat me nice" interprétée par Elvis dans le film Jailhouse rock)	Mademoiselle Rythme	01:59
Winston Hewitt	Keep Moving	I Love You	03:31
Winston Hewitt	I Love You	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	03:53
Northern Haze	Uvaguk	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	03:45
Intersystems	track 01 (entire side 1)	Free Psychadelic Poster Inside	27:30
Irene McNeil	Noël en Italie	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:40
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Watchin' Zeros Grow	The Black Tie Affair	05:31
Two Tones	Summer Love	Live at the Village Corner	02:35
Irene McNeil	Reviens Vers Moi (Return to Me)	Mademoiselle Rythme	01:59
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: Outro & Cut Off (Clean)	The First Cut Is The Deepest	06:01
Al Oster	I Wonder What Your Eyes Will Say	Yukon Gold	01:59
Two Tones	Copper Kettle	Live at the Village Corner	03:34
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	02:42
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Time is Now	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:13
Chevy Dirt	No Foolin' Around	Western Civilization	02:53
Two Tones	Dark as a Dungeon	Live at the Village Corner	02:18
Winston Hewitt	I Want to Forget	Snapshot	02:37
Get Loose Crew	Wannabe (dub)	ST	04:36
A Tribe Called Red	Good to Go	ST	04:20
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Yukon Gold	02:22
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Higher Level	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	03:20
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Fun Surround Dem	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:57
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	Jerry Carey - Old Erin Far Away	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	02:41
Keatniks	Laudie, Laudie Miss Claudie	ST	02:33
Winston Hewitt	Just You and Me	Just You and Me	02:37
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	I'll Take Romance	Sings	02:21
Winston Hewitt	Since I Met You Baby	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	04:04
Winston Hewitt	Dreaming of You	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:36
Winston Hewitt	They Got to Come	Pretty Brown Eyes	04:54
Winston Hewitt	I'm Gonna Love You Tonight	Just You and Me	03:03
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	An After Dinner Mint	The Black Tie Affair	01:33
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Pleasure Sweets	Motherlove	04:29
Winston Hewitt	You Don't Have to Say Your Sorry	Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'	02:27
Chevy Dirt	This Ain't Love	Western Civilization	03:43
Two Tones	Calypso Baby	Live at the Village Corner	02:06
Two Tones	The Fox	Live at the Village Corner	02:32
Willie Dunn	The Little Big Horn	Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8	12:14
Winston Hewitt	Reggae Medley	Reggae Medley	08:35
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Willie Dunn	Poundmaker	Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8	08:23
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	The Party's Over	Sings	02:43
Larena Clark	I Once Loved a Lass	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	03:32
Get Loose Crew	Protocol of Rap	ST	04:24
Winston Hewitt	I Don't Need Your Love	Snapshot	03:47
Winston Hewitt	I'm Gonna Love You Tonight (version)	Just You and Me	03:02
Larena Clark	Rattle on the Stovepipe	A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario	01:34
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight It (Part 2)	I Love You	02:50
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Pray To Da East	Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!	04:38
Winston Hewitt	The Same One	Full of Love	04:18
Borealis	Another Boy	Sons of the Sea	05:10
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Still Here	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:59
Al Oster	Yukon Cheechako	Yukon Gold	02:52
Keatniks	I Could Easily Fall In Love With You	ST	02:52
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	The Child in Me	Motherlove	00:47
Singing Fools	The Bum Rap	The Bum Rap b/w Fire My Love (picture sleeve)	04:21
Borealis	Higher	Sons of the Sea	03:27
Get Loose Crew	Get Loose Crew	ST	05:01
Winston Hewitt	What Am I Living For	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:42
Two Tones	Kilgarry Mountain	Live at the Village Corner	02:12
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	M.L.’s Dream	Motherlove	01:06
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	Hey There	Sings	02:17
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	Nothin' At All (with George Banton)	The Black Tie Affair	05:03
Northern Haze	Qailaurit	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	01:57
A Tribe Called Red	Moombahwow	ST	04:20
Winston Hewitt	No Other Girl	I Love You	02:45
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton)	John Leahy - The Banks of Inverness	Ontario Ballads & Folksongs	02:06
Winston Hewitt	You Don't Have to Say	I Love You	02:17
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden)	The Other Woman	Sings	02:33
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	I'm the One	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:01
Winston Hewitt	It Feel So Good	Full of Love	04:01
Irene McNeil	Rock n' roll cha cha cha	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:39
Ivan Burgess	Mon Pays (Gilles Vigneault)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:36
Yank Barry	I'll Still Be Remembering You	The Diary of Mr. Gray	02:43
Da Slyme	squeeze my blackhead	ST	02:35
Ivan Burgess	When My Love Comes (Ivan Burgess)	Minstrel Of The Dawn	02:23
Winston Hewitt	Got the Fever	Snapshot	02:24
Les Trois Clefs	Le Rock 'N roll du samedi soir	Le Rock 'N roll du samedi soir // Innamorata	02:42
Winston Hewitt	I Love You	I Love You	03:50
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude: Fakin' Jamaican	The First Cut Is The Deepest	01:00
Bobby Kris and the Imperials	A Year From Today	She Belongs to Me b/w A Year From Today	02:29
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	STHNLA	Motherlove	04:44
Irene McNeil	Dis-moi que tu m’aimes (Tell me that you love me)	Mademoiselle Rythme	02:11
Winston Hewitt	What More Can I Do	I Love You	03:01
Winston Hewitt	Jane I'm Not the Same	I Love You	03:27
Borealis	Lucky Day	Sons of the Sea	03:09
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
Winston Hewitt	High School Dance	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	03:04
Winston Hewitt	Just You and Me (version)	Just You and Me	02:37
Winston Hewitt	Someone Loves You Honey	Full of Love	04:49
Winston Hewitt	Our Love is Fallin'	I Love You	02:46
Chevy Dirt	Western Civilization	Western Civilization	02:35
Northern Haze	Sinnaktuq	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ	02:20
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams)	The Black Tie Affair	The Black Tie Affair	04:26

Canadian Pioneers

Tracks

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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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