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
Chevy Dirt Little Loser Western Civilization
Two Tones We Come Here to Sing Live at the Village Corner
Willie Dunn Poundmaker Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Drop the Needle Symphony in Effect
Larena Clark I Once Loved a Lass A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Singing Fools The Bum Rap The Bum Rap b/w Fire My Love (picture sleeve)
A Tribe Called Red General Generations ST
Ivan Burgess Miss Marianne (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Edith Fowke Marcelle McMahon - Sir Charles Lapier Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Fortissimo Symphony in Effect
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Mic Mechanism Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Historical Implications of Turnips Motherlove
Ivan Burgess Pendant que (Gilles Vigneault) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Winston Hewitt Someone Loves You Honey Full of Love
Chevy Dirt G.T.O. Western Civilization
Winston Hewitt I Love You I Love You
Borealis Lucky Day Sons of the Sea
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Pray To Da East Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Edith Fowke Mrs. Tom Sullivan - I Love Little Willie Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Cover Girl The First Cut Is The Deepest
Winston Hewitt Just Let Me Be Just You and Me
Winston Hewitt Got the Fever Snapshot
Winston Hewitt No Other Girl I Love You
Edith Fowke Tom Brandon - Erin's Green Shore Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Bring It On (Remix) Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Northern Haze Inusivut ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Winston Hewitt I Love You More Than I Can Say Full of Love
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Untouchable Symphony in Effect
Chevy Dirt This Ain't Love Western Civilization
Larena Clark Thyme ‘tis a Pretty Flower A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Tear it Up Symphony in Effect
Al Oster Yukon Gold Yukon Gold
Keatniks Here She Comes ST
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Time is Now The First Cut Is The Deepest
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Free The First Cut Is The Deepest
Two Tones Dark as a Dungeon Live at the Village Corner
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Brown Sugar Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Keatniks Long Tall Sally ST
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) STHNLA Motherlove
Winston Hewitt Let it Be Pretty Brown Eyes
Bobby Kris and the Imperials A Year From Today She Belongs to Me b/w A Year From Today
Winston Hewitt Our Love is Fallin' I Love You
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) The Happiest Girl in the World Sings
Irene McNeil Dis-moi que tu m’aimes (Tell me that you love me) Mademoiselle Rythme
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight it (Part Two) Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Ivan Burgess I Want to Live (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Still Here The First Cut Is The Deepest
Ivan Burgess Minstrel of the Dawn (Gordon Lightfoot) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Intersystems track 01 (entire side 1) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Winston Hewitt I'm Not the One to Cry Over You Snapshot
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It (Part 2) I Love You
John Oswald Spring (Stravinsky - Oswald Plunderphonics
Winston Hewitt Keep Moving I Love You
Winston Hewitt They Got to Come Pretty Brown Eyes
Winston Hewitt I'm Not the One to Cry Over You Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Ripped Mee Off The First Cut Is The Deepest
Two Tones Kilgarry Mountain Live at the Village Corner
Al Oster One of These Days Yukon Gold
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Uncle Nigel The First Cut Is The Deepest
Two Tones Sinnerman Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It I Love You
Winston Hewitt Lonely Street Reggae Medley
Winston Hewitt Jane I'm Not the Same I Love You
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Fun Surround Dem The First Cut Is The Deepest
Two Tones Copper Kettle Live at the Village Corner
Two Tones Lord I'm So Weary Live at the Village Corner
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Just Swingin Symphony in Effect
Winston Hewitt Let Us Work Together Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Poetry is Black The Black Tie Affair
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) L.T.D. Makes a Toast The Black Tie Affair
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Bill Bissett’s Lullaby Motherlove
Chevy Dirt Convertible Car Western Civilization
A Tribe Called Red Red Skin Girl (ATCR Remix) ST
Al Oster I Wonder What Your Eyes Will Say Yukon Gold
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Makin' Records Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Yank Barry I'll Still Be Remembering You The Diary of Mr. Gray
John Oswald Pocket (Basie - Oswald) Plunderphonics
Borealis Old Age Sons of the Sea
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Chevy Dirt No Foolin' Around Western Civilization
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Fakin' Jamaican The First Cut Is The Deepest
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Just One of Those Things Sings
Winston Hewitt No Other Girl Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Come Rain or Come Shine Sings
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do I Love You
Da Slyme squeeze my blackhead ST
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Outro & Cut Off (Clean) The First Cut Is The Deepest
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) I'm Drinkin' Milk Now Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
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
Two Tones Children Go Where I Send Thee Live at the Village Corner
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Conductin' Thangs The Black Tie Affair
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Keatniks I Could Easily Fall In Love With You ST
Irene McNeil Rock a Beatin' Boogie (Bill Haley) Mademoiselle Rythme
Edith Fowke Jerry Carey - Old Erin Far Away Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Winston Hewitt Can't You Hear Me Snapshot
Winston Hewitt I'm Gonna Love You Tonight Just You and Me
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Don't Wanna be Your Slave The First Cut Is The Deepest

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

bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) - Motherlove

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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

Sugluk, Québec

Orphic Egg - Crack It b/w Crack It

Unknown

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

Northern Haze-LABEL 01

Northern Haze-BACK

A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario

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