The Ultimate Jamaica to Ontario Collection

This room celebrates the vibrant legacy of Jamaican immigrants who settled across Ontario—not just in Toronto, but also in cities like Hamilton, London, Windsor, Ottawa, and beyond. The Ultimate Jamaica to Ontario Collection features reggae, ska, rocksteady, dancehall, dub, and hip-hop from the artists and communities that carried island rhythms into Canadian hearts and dancehalls. From early sound systems to national airplay, this music reflects resilience, identity, and joy—an irie tribute to the Jamaican-Canadian experience across the province.

Tracks

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Johnny Osbourne	Love Comes & Goes	Meets Roots Radics 1980-1981 "Vintage"	02:27
Crack of Dawn	Keep the Faith	Spotlight	03:35
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Nana McLean (Claudette)	Take My Loving	Collector Series	03:53
Tony Kingston	One Night With You	Tongue Tied	02:38
Truths & Rights	Get Up	Time For Us To Unite	03:51
Johnny Osbourne	A Kiss Dub	Meets Roots Radics 1980-1981 "Vintage"	03:28
Claudja Barry	Deck The Halls - Come All Ye Faithful - Silent Night	Disco 'Round the Christmas Tree	05:32
Leroy Brown	Genuine Love	Genuine Love	03:58
Ishan People	Trenchtown	ST	05:35
Bob Williams	I Love You (In A Very Special Way)	I Love You (In A Very Special Way) b/w Life Must Go On	03:45
Stranger Cole	Cornell Andrews & The Collinder Sisters - Uno Dos Tres	Bread in the Oven (& The Collinder Sisters)	06:07
Leroy Sibbles	Warden	Strictly Roots	06:42
King Herbert And the Knights	Amen	With Jack Harden	03:22
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
Messenjah	It's You	Cool... But Deadly	04:14
Michie Mee And LA Luv (Michelle McCullock & Phillip Gayle)	A Portion From Up North	Jamaican Funk - Canadian Style	04:42
Jackie Mittoo	Love Life	Love of life b/w Love Life	03:10
Jackie Mittoo	Ebb Tide	Let's Put It all Together	03:30
Winston Hewitt	Do You Ever Feel Like Crying	Snapshot	02:21
Messenjah	Cool Operator	Cool Operator	05:20
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Lillian Allen	Why Do We Have to Fight	Conditions Critical	03:21
Winston Hewitt	I Love You	I Love You	03:50
Leroy Brown	She’s Not Just Another Woman	Nice & Slow	03:46
Trevor Dandy	Don’t Cry Little Tree	Don't Cry Little Tree	03:10
R. Jackson Zee	Stole My Heart	Trodding	03:30
Jackie Mittoo	Ska Revival	Wild Jockey	03:18
R. Jackson Zee	Parkdale	Unda De Struggle	03:00
Lillian Allen	Conditions Critical	Conditions Critical	05:03
Carl Harvey	Third Stone from the Sun	The Times	05:24
Crack of Dawn	Give Me Your Love	Horizons	05:07
Ishan People	Come to the Music	ST	04:13
Soul Explosion Band	Unity	Out of Many One People	03:19
Bennett Jo	What's My Colour	Groovy Joe (with Mudies All Stars)	04:07
Lillian Allen	Rub a Dub Style Inna Regent Park	Revolutionary Tea Party	05:59
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Interlude, Pt. 3	Bahdgyal's Revenge	00:41
Winston Hewitt	Lonely Street	Reggae Medley	02:18
Lindsay Estiban	Fancy Ladies	L.A. Walk	03:31
Johnny Osbourne	First Trumpet (version)	First Trumpet	05:57
Carl Harvey	Only the Moment	The Times	05:00
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Intro (Michie Mee, Chuck Dee)	Bahdgyal's Revenge	01:15
Trevor Dandy	I Want My Light to Shine	Sing Hallelujah	03:42
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	I'll Call You	The First Cut Is The Deepest	03:03
Stranger Cole	Tell Me Darling	More Life EP (with The Steadytones)	04:22
Stranger Cole	Children	"Forward" in the Land of Sunshine	02:51
Stranger Cole	No More Fussing And Fighting	The Patriot	03:51
George Banton	Uptight Good Woman (vocal)	The Soul of Toronto	03:03
Jackie Mittoo	The Avenger	The Keyboard King	03:04
Winston Hewitt	Since I Met You Baby	Greatest Hits Vol. 1: Love is the Answer	04:04
Lindsay Estiban	Reach Out	L.A. Walk	05:42
Ishan People	Your Money Or Your Life	Roots	05:29
Winston Hewitt	Feel it Don't Fight It	I Love You	02:28
Claudja Barry	This Taste of Love	Sweet Dynamite	04:29
Mojah (Lloyd Timmothy Benn)	Camboulay Dub Version	Rosana	09:10
King Herbert And the Knights	Ooga Boogaloo	With Jack Harden	03:17
Super 8 Corporation	What Rasta Say	What Rasta Say (Pluggy Satchmo)	03:25
Wayne McGhie & the Sounds of Joy	Cool It	ST	02:41
Nite - Lite	Tears On My Pillow	Tears On My Pillow	06:01
Stan Martin	Beautiful Girl	Big Mouth Woman b/w Beautiful Girl	03:59
Mighty Pope	Heaven On The Seventh Floor	ST	02:44
Jackie Mittoo	Lazy Bones	Macka Fat	04:27
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Love	Bahdgyal's Revenge	02:58
Truths & Rights	Sweet Reggae Music	Time For Us To Unite	04:07
Roots Radics	Jacket Dub	Roots Dub Style	03:45
Jackie Mittoo	Dry Wine	Wishbone	02:45
Cynthia Webber	The Wedding	Sweet Soul And Inspiration	04:05
Chalawa	Capture Land	Capture Land	05:32
Stranger Cole	We Are Rolling	Storybook Revisited	02:28
Stranger Cole	When You Call My Name	Storybook Revisited	03:11
Tony Kingston	Faith, Hope & Charity	Faith, Hope & Charity b/w Faith, Hope & Charity	03:17
Claudja Barry	Nobody But You	I Wanna Be Loved By You	03:30
Nana McLean (Claudette)	I Started a Joke	Collector Series	03:57
Winston Hewitt	They Got to Come	Pretty Brown Eyes	04:54
Jay Douglas (Clive Pinnock)	Soul Trek	You Are My Lady	04:35
Jackie Mittoo	Frangipani (Jackie Mittoo)	Let's Put It all Together	02:21
Leroy Brown	Rent a Tile	Genuine Love	03:57
Leroy Sibbles	Want You to Know	On Top	02:56
Stranger Cole	Yesterday’s Dream	Storybook Revisited	02:37
Otis Gayle	When You're Lonely	Love is a Thing	03:42
Lindsay Estiban	Going Away	L.A. Walk	05:08
Jah B	Live Up	Live Up	05:25
Pluggy Satchmo	Porridge	Porridge	04:10
Nana McLean (Claudette)	Love Me Forever	Dream Of Life	03:11
Claudja Barry	The Twelwe Days Of Christmas	Disco 'Round the Christmas Tree	04:44
Sattalites	Peace Talk	Miracles	05:12
Jackie Mittoo	Steady Rock	Reggae Magic	02:19
Claudja Barry	Rudolph the Red-nosed Rendeer	Disco 'Round the Christmas Tree	03:41
Jackie Mittoo	World of Love	The Keyboard King	04:14
Mighty Pope	In-a-gadda-da-vida	Sway	07:29
Winston Hewitt	We'll Be Lovers	We'll Be Lovers b/w I'm Gonna Love You Tonight (with Julie Spence)	03:28
Leroy Gibbon	Stepping Razor	Just Like That	03:59
Mojah (Lloyd Timmothy Benn)	When Tribes Meet	Broken Arrow	01:26
Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock)	Forgot About Mich - Fam	Bahdgyal's Revenge	03:10
Ernie* Smith	Show Me a Sign	To Behold Jah	05:11
Ernie* Smith	Don't Down Me Now	To Behold Jah	03:52
Cynthia Webber	The Greatest Love	Sweet Soul And Inspiration	03:49
Roots Earth And Water	Right, Right Time Version	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	03:34
Truths & Rights	Nuclear	Time For Us To Unite	04:35
Pluggy Satchmo	Anthony Hibbert & Black Gold - Satan Dub	Dance Hall Style (with Norma King)	03:37

The Ultimate Jamaica to Ontario Collection

Tracks

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Stranger Cole - Storybook Revisited

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Stranger Cole - More Life EP (with The Steadytones)

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Stranger Cole - Bread in the Oven (& The Collinder Sisters)

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Stranger Cole - The First Ten Years (with The Callander Sisters and Chalawa)

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Stranger Cole - "Forward" in the Land of Sunshine

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Stranger Cole - The Patriot

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Stranger Cole - Capture Land

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Carl Harvey - Just Having Fun

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Carl Harvey - The Times

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Carl Harvey - Ecstacy of Mankind

Carl Harvey - Ebony Lady

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Cougars - Caribana '67 Volume 1

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Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers - Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

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Ishan People - Roots

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Ishan People - ST

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

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Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) - Woah Vicky (featuring Michie Mee, Nanna Goodie, LolaBunz, Layla Hendryx, Charmaine & TherealKeesh) (Remix)

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Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) - Bahdgyal's Revenge

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Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) - Willing and Able

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Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) - Made It

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Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) - Say About Us?

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Michie Mee (Michelle McCullock) - Jamaican Funk

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Bob Williams - I Love You (In A Very Special Way) b/w Life Must Go On

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Bob Williams - I'm Alright

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Bob Williams - Mighty Creator b/w I Believe in Music

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Soul Explosion Band - Out of Many One People

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Mighty Mystics - Ride Your Donkey b/w Arms

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Jay Douglas (Clive Pinnock) - You Are My Lady

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Trevor Dandy - Don't Cry Little Tree

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Mighty Pope - Sway

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