Once again, I am please to share with my readers the publication of the Canadian Antique Phonograph Society, in which one will find various articles pertaining to phonographs, etc. The current issue has an excellent article about the history of the Phonola, a Canadian manufactured gramophone, along with other items of interest.
On August 1, 1919 The Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Limited announced a newly conceived line of records which would promote Canadian talent, such as pianist Willie Eckstein, violinist Luigi Romanelli, whose orchestra appeared at The King Edward Hotel in Toronto during the early 1920’s, The Melody Kings Dance Orchestra from Montreal, and, around 1929, Fred Culley and his Royal York Hotel Orchestra.
In November 1912, the Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Limited, which manufactured and sold His Master’s Voice and Victor records, and its Victrola phonographs, decided to take out a full-page advertisement in the Montreal Standard to show the public where their manufacturing plant and retail locations were located, in the heart of Montreal itself. There were already two existing retail operations at 415 St. Catherine Street West, and the other was at 488 St. Catherine Street East. Berliner was now announcing its latest retail operation would be located at 355 St. Catherine Street West.
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