Your Quintessential Canadian Summer Playlist

Summer is made for road trips and road trips are made for epic playlists. And when you’re in Canada, that playlist has to be all Can-con, all the time!

Whether your road trip is going coast-to-coast, up to the cottage, out to the lake, or down to the city, these Canadian hits are the quintessential soundtrack for your summer adventures.

“Echo Beach“– Martha and the Muffins

“Oowatanite”– April Wine

“Life Is a Highway”–Tom Cochrane

“Summer of ’69”–Bryan Adams

“1234” –Feist

“Underwhelmed”–Sloan

“Brian Wilson” – Barenaked Ladies

“Tom Sawyer”–Rush

“Harvest Moon” –Neil Young

“Bobcaygeon” –Tragically Hip

“Carey”–Joni Mitchell

“Ahead By a Century”–Tragically Hip

“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” –Gordon Lightfoot 

“Closing Time” –Leonard Cohen

“Carefree Highway” –Gordon Lightfoot

“Heart of Gold” –Neil Young

“Brother Down” –Sam Roberts Band

“Roll On Down the Highway”–Bachman-Turner Overdrive

“Run to You”–Bryan Adams

“No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature” –The Guess Who

“Blackbird”–The Guess Who

“Patio Lanterns”–Kim Mitchell

“Mushaboom” –Feist

“I Don’t Know”–The Sheepdogs

“Go for a Soda”–Kim Mitchell

“Tonight is a Wonderful Time to Fall in Love”–April Wine

“Lonesome Mary”–Chilliwack

“Takin’ Care of Business” –Bachman-Turner Overdrive

“Fly at Night (In The Morning We Land)”–Chilliwack

“Highway of Heroes”–The Trews

“5 Days in May”–Blue Rodeo

“Blackbird”–Sarah McLaughlin

“Clumsy” – Our Lady Peace

“Way Way Down” – The Tea Party

“Building a Mystery”–Sarah McLaughlin

“Lost Together”–Blue Rodeo

“Feels Like Home”–Chantal Kreviazuk

“Good Mother”–Jann Arden

“Big Yellow Taxi”–Joni Mitchell

“Feeling Good”–The Sheepdogs

“Poor Ol’ Broken Hearted Me”–The Trews

“If I Had a Million Dollars” –Barenaked Ladies

“We’re Here for a Good Time”–Trooper

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