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
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It (Part 2) I Love You
Winston Hewitt No Other Girl I Love You
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) I'm Drinkin' Milk Now Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Two Tones Summer Love Live at the Village Corner
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Mic Mechanism Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Winston Hewitt I'm So Glad I Found You (version) Just You and Me
A Tribe Called Red Intertribal n1 ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) V.I.P.'s Only (with K-4CE) The Black Tie Affair
Al Oster 918 Miles Yukon Gold
Winston Hewitt What Am I Living For Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Northern Haze Inusivut ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Keatniks Come a Little Bit Closer ST
Irene McNeil Reviens Vers Moi (Return to Me) Mademoiselle Rythme
Keatniks Bumble Boogie ST
Chevy Dirt Nothing to Me Western Civilization
Winston Hewitt Dreaming of You Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Larena Clark The Old Country Fair A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) The Mic's My Piece Symphony in Effect
Winston Hewitt I Love You Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Brown Sugar Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Winston Hewitt I'm So Glad I Found You Just You and Me
Borealis Old Age Sons of the Sea
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) The Happiest Girl in the World Sings
Two Tones Fast Freight Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt Shoo-ba-do-ba-do-ba Pretty Brown Eyes
Winston Hewitt Just You and Me Just You and Me
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Tom Brandon - Erin's Green Shore Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) M.L.’s Dream Motherlove
Ivan Burgess The Call (Gene MacLellan) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Larena Clark The House Carpenter A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
A Tribe Called Red Good to Go ST
Ivan Burgess I Want to Live (Ivan Burgess) Minstrel Of The Dawn
Chevy Dirt Western Civilization Western Civilization
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Winston Hewitt Our Love Is Fallin' Winston and the Dynamics - Keep Movin'
Winston Hewitt Sugar Sugar Pretty Brown Eyes
Keatniks As Long As I Have You ST
Northern Haze Nutaraq ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Keatniks Memphis ST
Northern Haze Sinnaktuq ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Larena Clark I Once Loved a Lass A Canadian Garland: Folksongs from the Province of Ontario
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Let Your Backbone Slide (Power mix) Symphony in Effect
Bob Regan & the Peace River Rangers Teenage Boogie Teenage Boogie b/w I Will Never Hold Another
Winston Hewitt Feel it Don't Fight It I Love You
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Untouchable Symphony in Effect
Al Oster Next Boat Yukon Gold
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Pleasure Sweets Motherlove
Irene McNeil Rock’n roll du Père Noël (Boogie woogie Santa Claus) Mademoiselle Rythme
Keatniks Can`t You See That She`s Mine ST
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) STHNLA Motherlove
Da Slyme Defacation On The Nation ST
Winston Hewitt There's No Love in the World Today Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer
Keatniks King of the Road ST
Winston Hewitt I Need a Lot of Loving Just You and Me
A Tribe Called Red Moombahwow ST
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) I'm Showin You Symphony in Effect
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Private Symphony (Remix) The Black Tie Affair
Borealis Another Boy Sons of the Sea
Borealis Business Sons of the Sea
Keatniks Three Long Days and Nights ST
Winston Hewitt Let Us Work Together Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late
Get Loose Crew Rap Vigilante (dub) ST
Al Oster Words Will Never Tell Yukon Gold
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) The Maestro Symphony in Effect
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) Just One of Those Things Sings
Willie Dunn Collection Blues Who Were The Ones? Parts 7-8
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Dada Lama Motherlove
A Tribe Called Red Native puppy love ST
Get Loose Crew Protocol of Rap ST
Two Tones Sinnerman Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt It's Too Late Let Us Work Together // It's Too Late
Two Tones This is My Song Live at the Village Corner
Winston Hewitt Do You Remember Snapshot
Chevy Dirt No Foolin' Around Western Civilization
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Fine Tune Da Mic Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
Irene McNeil Dis-moi que tu m’aimes (Tell me that you love me) Mademoiselle Rythme
Edith Fowke (Edith Margaret Fulton) Tom Brandon - The Spree Ontario Ballads & Folksongs
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) The Party's Over Sings
Winston Hewitt I Love You I Love You
Chevy Dirt Gas Operator Western Civilization
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Time is Now The First Cut Is The Deepest
Al Oster Yukon Gold Yukon Gold
Winston Hewitt Let Us Work Together Just You and Me
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Angels Hair Mother Love Suite: Intro; Allementry; Plunket Pastoral; Two Buried Texts Part I - Silver Lake Six; Two Buried Texts Part II - Silver Lake Six; A Little Love Poem for Your Lobes to Nibble On; Visitation; Cada Motherlove
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Fortissimo Symphony in Effect
Winston Hewitt What More Can I Do I Love You
Chevy Dirt G.T.O. Western Civilization
Al Oster Midnight Sun Rock Yukon Gold
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Just Swingin Symphony in Effect
Northern Haze Uvaguk ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) Interlude: Personal Assistant The First Cut Is The Deepest
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Marge Anthony (Marjorie Anthony Linden) The Other Woman Sings
Winston Hewitt Burning Inside Snapshot
Get Loose Crew Get Loos Crew Instrumental ST
Two Tones Copper Kettle Live at the Village Corner
Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams) Bring It On (Remix) Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be From Canada?!!
John Oswald Pocket (Basie - Oswald) Plunderphonics
Al Oster Yukon Cheechako Yukon Gold
Chevy Dirt Underground Western Civilization

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, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

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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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