Novelty Stamping Works
Canadian Music Trades Journal, March 1, 1909, p. 1. This advertisement for Novelty Stamping Works, 136 Pearl Street, Toronto, appeared in several issues of Canadian Music Trades Journal beginning on September 15, 1907 and ending on March 1, 1909.
Hamilton Spectator, October 13, 1909, p. 5. Novelty Stamping Works went out of business in October 1909.
Queen City Manufacturers, Ltd.
Talking Machine World, April 1906, p. 38. Announcement of the Queen City Talking Machine Company (later, Queen City Manufacturers, Ltd.), 474 Queen Street West, Toronto, in April, 1906, a new dealer in talking machines, specializing in Columbia phonographs and records.
Globe and Mail, December 24, 1906, p. 9. In December, 1906, Queen City Talking Machine Company changed their name and incorporated as Queen City Manufacturers, 474 Queen Street West, Toronto. The company was listed as a new Toronto enterprise in the Toronto Telegram on December 22, 1906, and in the Globe and Mail on December 24. Capital $40,000.
Talking Machine World, February 1907, p. 3. Announcement in February, 1907, that Queen City Manufacturers, Ltd., were "carrying on the manufacture of talking machine horns".
Toronto Star, April 13, 1907, p. 15. Advertisement in April, 1907, for the "Marconic" device to reduce the scratching sound when playing records.
Toronto Star, June 7, 1907, p. 4. Advertisement in June, 1907, for a sound modifier.
Canadian Music Trades Journal, September 15, 1907, p. 1. Advertisement in September, 1907, for Made in Canada record cabinets by Queen City Manufacturers, Ltd.
Canadian Music Trades Journal, November 15, 1907, p. 1. Advertisement in November, 1907, for needles for disc records supplied by Queen City Manufacturers, Ltd.
Toronto Telegram, January 14, 1908, p. 3. In January, 1908, the company advertised for an "expert solicitor ... good proposition for a hustler".
Toronto Star, February 15, 1908, p. 3. Finally, in February, 1908, Queen City Manufacturers, Ltd. officially changed their name to Toronto Phonograph Company, Ltd.
Canadian Music Trades Journal, August 1, 1908, p. 18.
"Music Master" and Columbia Wood Horns
Canadian Music Trades Journal, April 15, 1909, p. 20. The Berliner Gramophone Company secured the Canadian agency for the American-made "Music Master" wood horn. This means that the Montreal firm obtained the exclusive or authorized right to represent, distribute, or sell the "Music Master" horn in Canada. It does not suggest that Berliner manufactured the horn in Canada.
Canadian Music Trades Journal. Columbia wood horns, March 15, 1909, p. 26. Music Master wood horns, April 15, 1909, p. 24.
Newbigging Cabinet Co., Ltd.
Newbigging Cabinet Company, Ltd., 164 King Street West, Hamilton, Ontario began business in 1906 selling "something new": patent lawn and verandah gliding settees. By 1907, they offered desks and office store fittings: "The company is making a specialty of office and store fittings" (Hamilton Spectator, March 17, 1908, p. 7).
In mid 1908, they added Show Cases. "We have stopped Toronto from sending SHOWCASES to Hamilton" (Hamilton Spectator, June 20, 1908, p. 12). By late 1908, they advertised: "Contracts made for quantities of special articles in hardwoods. Show Cases and Store Fittings, Desk, Special Furniture, Grills, etc." (Hamilton Spectator, November 2, 1908, p. 10), Their ads in the Hamilton Spectator continued almost daily through 1911.
In 1912, for the first time, they advertised phonograph cabinets: "Specialists in the Manufacture of Phonograph Record and Player Roll Cabinets" (Canadian Music Trades Journal, August 1912, p. 22).
Hamilton Spectator, March 8, 1909, p. 5.
Hamilton Spectator, January 4, 1910, p. 2.
Canadian Music Trades Journal, August 1912, p. 22.
Canadian Music Trades Journal, February 1915, p. 17.
Canadian Music Trades Journal, April 1915, p. 1.
Canadian Music Trades Journal, July 1915, p. 30.
Goderich Organ Co., Ltd.
The Goderich Organ Company operated in Goderich, Ontario, from 1892 to 1930. They were primarily a manufacturer of organs, piano stools and benches, and record cabinets. The company briefly entered the talking machine business in 1919 and produced or assembled one phonograph model, the Royal, for a couple of years.
Canadian Music Trades Journal, June 1900, p. 11.
Canadian Music Trades Journal, August 1912, p. 24.
Canadian Music Trades Journal, August 1914, p. 17 and detail.
Canadian Music Trades Journal, October 1920, p. 14.
A phonograph record cabinet manufactured by The Goderich Organ Co., Limited, Goderich, Canada. Courtesy of Mike Bryan.
Brantford Piano Case Co., Ltd.
Patent books with an Index of Inventors, Patentees, and Assignees at the Toronto Reference Library reference:
June 10, 1916, p. 1990: The Brantford Piano Case Co., Ltd, Brantford, Ontario, Phonograph cabinet
December 28, 1916, p. 4111, No. 22233: Brantford Piano Case Co. Ltd, the Word, Brant-Ola.
Canadian Music Trades Journal, September 1916, p. 75: "The Brant-Ola Phonograph is the newest product of the Brantford Piano Case Co.'s factory. Since commencing the manufacture of cabinets this firm have been impressed with the possibilities of the phonographic field, hence the new one. Mr. Brerton, secretary of the firm, when seen at the Toronto Exhibition stated that the new line was being well received where shown."
Canadian Music Trades Journal, March 1915, p. 14.
Canadian Music Trades Journal, August 1915, p. 98.
