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 Puigo ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Winston Hewitt Let Us Work Together Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Care for a Night Cap? The Black Tie Affair
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Spice This! The First Cut Is The Deepest
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Just Swingin Symphony in Effect
Winston Hewitt I Love You I Love You
Two Tones Fast Freight Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It (Part 2) I Love You
Bobby Kris and the Imperials A Year From Today She Belongs to Me b/w A Year From Today
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Child in Me Motherlove
Winston Hewitt Revalution Rock Reggae Medley
A Tribe Called Red General Generations ST
Al Oster Yukon Gold Yukon Gold
Two Tones Kilgarry Mountain Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt Burning Inside Snapshot
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do I Love You
Larena Clark Thyme ‘tis a Pretty Flower A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Keatniks I Could Easily Fall In Love With You ST
Ivan Burgess Shadowy Street (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Larena Clark Rattle on the Stovepipe A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Check My Vernacular Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Tom Brandon - Erin's Green Shore Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Orlo Brandon - The Green Briar Shore Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Al Oster Next Boat Yukon Gold
Winston Hewitt Sugar Sugar Pretty Brown Eyes
Ivan Burgess Outsider (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Irene McNeil Rock n' roll cha cha cha Mademoiselle Rythme
Keatniks Laudie, Laudie Miss Claudie ST
Chevy Dirt This Ain't Love Western Civilization
Get Loose Crew Get Loose Crew ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) The Maestro Symphony in Effect
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Mrs. Tom Sullivan - I Love Little Willie Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Winston Hewitt You Don't Have to Say I Love You
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Higher Level Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Brown Sugar Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Keatniks Here She Comes ST
Intersystems track 01 (entire side 1) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Al Oster I Wonder What Your Eyes Will Say Yukon Gold
Get Loose Crew Wannabe ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) The Maestro Zone The Black Tie Affair
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) The Party's Over Sings
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) O.J. Abbott - The Weaver Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Yank Barry Introduction to the Diary of Mr. Gray (78rpm monophonic) The Diary of Mr. Gray
Keatniks Come a Little Bit Closer ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Bring It On (Remix) Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Personal Assistant The First Cut Is The Deepest
Northern Haze Trust ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Winston Hewitt I'm Gonna Love You Tonight Just You and Me
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Lady Luck (The Darkside) The First Cut Is The Deepest
Keatniks Can`t You See That She`s Mine ST
Keatniks Memphis ST
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Fakin' Jamaican The First Cut Is The Deepest
John Oswald Pocket (Basie - Oswald) Plunderphonics
Al Oster One of These Days Yukon Gold
A Tribe Called Red Good to Go ST
A Tribe Called Red Moombahwow ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) On the Jazz Tip The Black Tie Affair
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) STHNLA Motherlove
Winston Hewitt Our Love is Fallin' I Love You
Two Tones Calypso Baby Live at the Village Corner
Larena Clark The Dapple Grey A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Winston Hewitt You're the One I Love Pretty Brown Eyes
Keatniks Three Long Days and Nights ST
Willie Dunn Poundmaker Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8
Borealis Old Age Sons of the Sea
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Fortissimo Symphony in Effect
Winston Hewitt Our Love is Fallin' I Love You
Northern Haze Qailaurit ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Larena Clark The Old Country Fair A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Winston Hewitt Got the Fever Snapshot
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It (Part 2) I Love You
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Untouchable Symphony in Effect
Al Oster Midnight Sun Rock Yukon Gold
Yank Barry Act 1: (Stereophonic) Mr. Gray The Diary of Mr. Gray
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) The Black Tie Affair The Black Tie Affair
Larena Clark I Once Loved a Lass A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) John Leahy - The Banks of Inverness Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Winston Hewitt Let Us Work Together (version) Just You and Me
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Fun Surround Dem The First Cut Is The Deepest
Chevy Dirt Shake Me Up Western Civilization
Winston Hewitt I'll Get to You Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
A Tribe Called Red Intertribal n1 ST
Ivan Burgess I Want to Live (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Irene McNeil Rock a Beatin' Boogie (Bill Haley) Mademoiselle Rythme
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Our Love is Here to Stay Sings
Borealis Higher Sons of the Sea
Winston Hewitt You Don't Have to Say Your Sorry Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Time is Now The First Cut Is The Deepest
Willie Dunn The Little Big Horn Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8
Irene McNeil Noël en Italie Mademoiselle Rythme
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It I Love You
Chevy Dirt Nothing to Me Western Civilization
Winston Hewitt It's Too Late Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) M.L.’s Dream Motherlove
Borealis In the End Sons of the Sea
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) "Dat's My Nigga!!" Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It I Love You

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

bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) - Motherlove

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

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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