"Canadian"




I'm not sure it is the same company but Roll Back The Years, Edward Moogk, National Library of Canada, 1975, on page 61 mentions:

"One machine that never quite got off the ground was the Best-Phone sold by two former Edison employees, J.J. Brophy and E.G. Bryson, from premises at 406-408 Yonge Street in Toronto.  The Best-Phone was a concealed-horn machine with a duplex sound box and a diamond point and adjustable to play either lateral or horizontal-cut records.  Even at $25, it apparently had little attraction for buyers.  The Canadian Phonograph Company, situated at 103 Yonge Street, took over the Best-Phone but discontinued use of the corporate name."

There are no 'Best-Phone' machines on this page...yet.


Machine pictures taken at an outdoor antique sale in southern Ontario, 2005 (photos by KW).
 










The following pictures are of a machine for sale in St. Jacobs in Jan. 2010 (photos by KW):











Machine for sale in Toronto, Feb. 2008 (photos by KW):









Arthur Zimmerman sent:

Canadian Phonograph, produced by the National Cabinet Company, Ltd., 485 King Street West, Toronto (phonograph manufacturers for 15 years), CMTJ [Canadian Music Trades Journal], August 1919, p. 97


'Sonograph' made for Canadian Phonograph from the Domenic DiBernardo Collection photographed by Cheryl Wright:







Sound box is labelled for 'Mason & Risch Toronto'--originally a piano company.




  KW found this advert from The Toronto World, October 2, 1919 (Simpson's was a large store competitor to Eaton's--they faced each other across Queen Street in Toronto):





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