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
Northern Haze Uvaguk ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Private Symphony Symphony in Effect
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight it (Part One) Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Tom Brandon - Erin's Green Shore Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) The Mic's My Piece Symphony in Effect
Winston Hewitt What Am I Living For Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Winston Hewitt You're My Boopsy Pretty Brown Eyes
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Yank Barry Act 1: (Stereophonic) Mr. Gray The Diary of Mr. Gray
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Care for a Night Cap? The Black Tie Affair
Winston Hewitt I'm So Glad I Found You (version) Just You and Me
A Tribe Called Red Munchi -Shottas (A Tribe Called Red SocaCore remix) ST
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do I Love You
Winston Hewitt Keep Moving I Love You
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Bill Bissett’s Lullaby Motherlove
Al Oster 918 Miles Yukon Gold
Da Slyme Defacation On The Nation ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) The Maestro Symphony in Effect
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It I Love You
Keatniks Can`t You See That She`s Mine ST
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
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Mic Mechanism Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Check My Vernacular Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Higher Level Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Al Oster I Wonder What Your Eyes Will Say Yukon Gold
Winston Hewitt Let Us Work Together (version) Just You and Me
Keatniks Bumble Boogie ST
A Tribe Called Red Moombahwow ST
Intersystems track 01 (entire side 1) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Chevy Dirt Western Civilization Western Civilization
Keatniks That's My Girl ST
Yank Barry I Can't Help Feeling The Diary of Mr. Gray
Al Oster Fair Weather Friend Yukon Gold
Winston Hewitt There's No Love in the World Today Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Winston Hewitt Burning Inside Snapshot
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Fakin' Jamaican The First Cut Is The Deepest
Keatniks Memphis ST
Two Tones The Fox Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt Tell the Devil Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Winston Hewitt I Love You Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Winston Hewitt I Need a Lot of Loving Just You and Me
Singing Fools The Bum Rap The Bum Rap b/w Fire My Love (picture sleeve)
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Just One of Those Things Sings
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Keatniks As Long As I Have You ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Pass the Champagne The Black Tie Affair
A Tribe Called Red General Generations ST
Winston Hewitt I'm Not the One to Cry Over You Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
John Oswald Spring (Stravinsky - Oswald Plunderphonics
Keatniks Laudie, Laudie Miss Claudie ST
Borealis Business Sons of the Sea
Winston Hewitt I'll Get to You Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
A Tribe Called Red Red Skin Girl (ATCR Remix) ST
Winston Hewitt They Got to Come Pretty Brown Eyes
Winston Hewitt It's Too Late Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late
Borealis Tomorrow Morning Sons of the Sea
Chevy Dirt Convertible Car Western Civilization
Winston Hewitt Jane (I'm Not the Same) Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Yank Barry Introduction to the Diary of Mr. Gray (78rpm monophonic) The Diary of Mr. Gray
Northern Haze Anivunga ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Personal Assistant The First Cut Is The Deepest
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Pray To Da East Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Two Tones Fast Freight Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt You're the One I Love Pretty Brown Eyes
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: The Album The First Cut Is The Deepest
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Fun Surround Dem The First Cut Is The Deepest
Two Tones Dark as a Dungeon Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt Stealin' Love Pretty Brown Eyes
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Winston Hewitt I Love You I Love You
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Love it Or Leave it Alone The First Cut Is The Deepest
Keatniks I Could Easily Fall In Love With You ST
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Child in Me Motherlove
Winston Hewitt Do You Remember Snapshot
Winston Hewitt Get on the Scene Snapshot
Winston Hewitt I'm Gonna Love You Tonight Just You and Me
Irene McNeil Noël en Italie Mademoiselle Rythme
Chevy Dirt Gas Operator Western Civilization
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It (Part 2) I Love You
Winston Hewitt No Other Girl Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Northern Haze Qailaurit ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Winston Hewitt I Don't Need Your Love Snapshot
Winston Hewitt You Don't Have to Say I Love You
Get Loose Crew Get Loose Crew ST
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Historical Implications of Turnips Motherlove
Two Tones Summer Love Live at the Village Corner
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) I'm Drinkin' Milk Now Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Tear it Up Symphony in Effect
Al Oster Next Boat Yukon Gold
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Two Tones We Come Here to Sing Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt Just You and Me Just You and Me
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
Borealis Higher Sons of the Sea
Winston Hewitt Keep Movin' (Formerly-Dynagroove) Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Ivan Burgess Shadowy Street (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Al Oster Waltz of the Yukon Yukon Gold
Winston Hewitt Stop Knocking on My Door Pretty Brown Eyes
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Gone with the Wind Sings

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Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) - Ontario Ballads & Folksongs

Lumsden, Saskatchewan → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) - The First Cut Is The Deepest

Kingston, Jamaica→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) - Symphony in Effect

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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A Tribe Called Red - ST

Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Al Oster - Yukon Gold

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

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Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) - Sings

Mill Village, Nova Scotia, 🇨🇦

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Northern Haze - ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ

Igloolik, Nunavut, 🇨🇦

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Larena Clark - A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario

Lake Simcoe, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Bobby Kris and the Imperials - She Belongs to Me b/w A Year From Today

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) - Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) - The Black Tie Affair

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Ivan Burgess - Minstrel Of The Dawn

Bermuda - Ottawa, Ontario - Antigonish, Nova Scotia - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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John Oswald - Plunderphonics

Kitchener, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Da Slyme - ST

St. John's, Newfoundland

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Willie Dunn - Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - Reggae Medley

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - Pretty Brown Eyes

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Winston Hewitt - Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

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Borealis - Sons of the Sea

St. John's, Newfoundland, 🇨🇦

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Two Tones - Live at the Village Corner

Orillia, Ontario (Gordon Lightfoot); Wasago, Ontario (Terry Whelan)

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Chevy Dirt - Western Civilization

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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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

Ethelbert, Manitoba - Hamilton, Ontario - Abbotsford, British Columbia

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Sugluk - Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy

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

Northern Haze

Northern Haze-LABEL 02

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