1

The Dubois String Quartet with violinist Albert Chamberland
18 February 1911
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2

The following Quebec independent record labels have classical music catalogues:

Amberola / Analekta / Apex / Atma Classical / Baroque / Dorian / Fonovox / JMC - Club musical national (Jeunesses musicales du Canada) / Jupiter / McGill Records / Musiart / Port-Royal / Radio-Canada International / Richelieu / Sélect / SNE (Société Nouvelle d'Enregistrement) / UMMUS / Vox / XXI-21

3

Recording studio before the electric age
1914
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Archives nationales du Québec collection

4

Electrical recording techniques were only introduced in 1924, thus noticeably improving the frequency spectrum and the quality of recordings, and revitalizing the record label catalogues. Before this, recording conditions required that musicians huddle up against a big bell that caught the sound. Particular registers, notably the tenor, were favoured. The quality of the recordings that resulted was lower than would be obtained by sending ambient music over the telephone lines.

5

Score sung by tenor Charles Dalberty
14 November 1908
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec collection

6

Joseph Saucier, singer
13 November 1909
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec collection

7

Singers in the first half of the 20th century often had to vary their repertoires in order to obtain contracts. A singer could alternate between classical, light opera and traditional music with more sophisticated arrangements. Joseph Saucier was one of these versatile singers; he recorded for Columbia as well as for Berliner (La Marseillaise, first entirely made-in-Canada recording, in 1904) and His Master's Voice.

8

Tenor André Descart
6 June 1914
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec collection

9

Article offering advice to music-lovers keen to buy records and equipment to listen to them on .
27 December 1919
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

10

Henri Miro, pianist, conductor and composer
13 December 1919
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec collection

11

Article on the classical music recordings available in Montreal and photograph of Henri Miro.
November, 1922
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

12

Louis Chartier, baritone
November, 1926
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec collection

13

Sleeve for a record by baritone Louis Chartier, on the Melotone label
1932
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

14

The Chamberland string trio
June, 1929
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec collection