Rarest Canadian Music

Rarest Canadian Music

Welcome to the deep end of the archive—an unparalleled collection of Canada’s most elusive, obscure, and impossible-to-find recordings. Private press LPs, vanished 45s, cassette-only gems, and forgotten studio experiments—all rescued from the brink of silence. Spanning every genre and region, RAREST CANADIAN MUSIC shines a light on the voices, visions, and vinyl that slipped through the cracks of mainstream history. Unearthed, digitized, and preserved—this is Canada’s hidden soundtrack.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Reign Ghost Ain't it Great Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Spring You Were Blind Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Pepper Tree Man of Gold Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Bear Paws Can't You See Kitche-Ogamah
Langley Schools Music Project Help Me, Rhonda Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Modigliani ST
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Love Won't let Me Wait "Coming Out"
Golden Earrings Nothing Much My Situation b/w Nothing Much
Ray Griff Jimmy, Luke and Me Canada "My Native Land"
Mock Duck Sitting on Top of the World Test Record
Roger Rodier Just fine Upon Velveatur
Ray Griff That Old Montana Moon Canada "My Native Land"
British North American Act Only a Dream In the Beginning
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Bird She Fly Low ST
Trevor Dandy Is There Any Love? Don't Cry Little Tree
November Grief T.W.O.D. To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Compilation Myrna Lawrence - I've Grown Accustomed to His Face Unselfconsciously Canadian
Stompin' Tom Connors Movin' On to Rouyn Northland's Own
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Marty Gillan One Act Play (Howie Vickers (The Collectors)) Try A Little Kindness
Arcade Fire No Cars Go ST
Jimmy Apostle & the Willows I Love Ya Honey I Love Ya Honey b/w Lost Love
David Wiffen Since I Fell For You Live at the Bunkhouse
Blind Owl The Old Man ST
Bear Paws Season of the Wind Kitche-Ogamah
New Creation Where Are You Going? Troubled
Mike Harris Patty the Coon Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Ronney Mitchell Will it go Round in Circles? The Five Man Cargo
Hugh Dixon What's New The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
A Joint Effort Tequilla Sunrise Final Effort
Perth County Conspiracy Welcome Surprise ST
Braineaters Closet Case Planet X
Chantettes Donna Remember.....
Jerry Palmer Sweet Lorene String of Hits
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Pot O' Gold Home Grown Stuff
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Untitled (Make the Answer "Yes") ST
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Snowfall Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Liska Tear Away My Heart Cry Out Loud
Ray Griff Alberta My Alberta Canada "My Native Land"
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Groovin ST
David Never Been In Love ST
Tyrant Carol Hooked On You b/w Carol
Jerry Palmer Your Love String of Hits
Derek Scott Markle Hey Hoe ST
Joker's Memory A Jokers Memory Part One ST
Tyrant Hooked On You Hooked On You b/w Carol
Joni Mitchell You Dream Flat Tires Wild Things Run Fast (test pressing)
John Greenwood Jig My Sailboat and Me
Dolores Claman Later Latin Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Medium Two by Two ST
Marty Gillan Lalena Try A Little Kindness
Art Snider It Was a Very Good Year Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Les 409 Born in Chicago They Say b/w Born in Chicago (acetate)
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre arbutus garden apartments 6 p m Awake in th Red Desert
Michael-Jon Rosenberg The High ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Walk Your Head Around Home Grown Stuff
Gordon Lightfoot Steel Rail Blues Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone That's the Way I Like It "Coming Out"
Ted Daigle Ballad of a Teenage Queen Teenage Time
A Joint Effort Champagne Junction Final Effort
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hook and Sling The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Barry Ennis Mountain of Ice Mountain of Ice b/w School Days
Ted Daigle Sweet Little Sixteen Teenage Time
Jensen Sisters You Walked Into My Life Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Pleasure Sweets Motherlove
Lewis Baloue We Danced All Night Romantic Times
Gordon Lightfoot Movin' Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Mike Harris By the Fireside Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Riverside Waltz Country and Rock & Roll Sound
New Creation All is Well Troubled
Walter Boudreau Danse Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Medium Give Me a Peace ST
Echoes and a Dream Just Trying to Be Echoes and a Dream
Art Snider Lara's Theme Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Opposite Help Us Make it Through the Night Help Us Make It
Langley Schools Music Project Venus and Mars Wix - Brown Elementary School
Marty Gillan Time and Love Try A Little Kindness
Two Tones Lord I'm So Weary Live at the Village Corner
Twice Upon a Never Go Where You Go Twice Upon a Never
Stompin' Tom Connors Streets of Toronto Northland's Own
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 2) (Dick Kelder) ST
Lucio Agostini Cocktails In New York Once Upon a Hundred Years
Lord Ryur Heroes After Heroes Pact With The Sinner b/w Heroes After Heroes
Perth County Conspiracy Take Your Time ST
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Garden Bower Lord I’m Tired Etc. w/ Trains
Bonnie Scots The Billy and the Sally Laugh and Cry
Dolores Claman Wilderness West Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Clymaxe R. U. Cumming? R. U. Cumming? b/w Walkin' Blues
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Piano Piano ST (psych cover)
Ellison Seal a Beam Bow (Vincent Marandola) ST
Alexander Brott & Donald McGill Canada: Case History (Earle Birney) - Erosion (E.J. Pratt) - Children of Martha (Gilean Douglas) - Quiet (Marjorie Pickthall) - Paul Bunyan (A Legend of his return to St. Eustache) (Arthur S. Bourinot Sept for Seven: Seven Brief Movements Combining the Arts of Music and Poetry - A Setting of Five Canadian Poems, Introduced by Musical Prelude and concluded with a Postlude
Heat Rocking Chair Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair
Sound Sett I Need You (Everybody Needs Somebody) 1966-1967
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Grazin' in the Grass Chip Dip
EQ Late 4 The Studio Swellsville
Pat's People Less of Me Today
Royal Family Solitude Sometimes b/w Solitude (picture sleeve)
British North American Act Don't Run Away In the Beginning
Roger Rodier Am I supposed to let it by again Upon Velveatur

FEATURED

Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-09

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-03-11

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Dolores Claman - Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

Vancouver, British Columbia → Toronto → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Billy Martin - Strawberry Soul

Harlem, New York, 🇺🇸 - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Jimmy Apostle & the Willows - I Love Ya Honey b/w Lost Love

FEATURED

Ellison - ST

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Perth County Conspiracy - ST

Stratford, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Heat - Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair

FEATURED

Something Evil - Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Kings - Switchin'

Vancouver, British Columbia; Oakville, Ontario

FEATURED

Spring - Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Fyre - David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

Barrie, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Joker's Memory - ST

Ottawa, Ontario

FEATURED

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - ST

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → New Brunswick, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Bent Wind - Sussex

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

The Mutual Understanding - In Wonderland

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jim Brown - The First See Hear

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra - James Bond 007

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - ST

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone - "Coming Out"

Philadelphia, USA → Florida, USA → Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

The Chessmen - Mustang b/w Meadowlands

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

London Experimental Jazz Quartet - Invisible Roots

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Nihilist Spasm Band - No Record

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Diodes - Raw / War (split with The Curse)

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

D.N.A. - Because I Love You b/w Seashell

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Live Off-The-Floor Demo

Mannequin Demo

Boys Brigade

Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07

Rehearsal 1985-09

Rehearsal 1985-03-11

Haggath

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-09 tape

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-09_tape track list_02

Haggath / Live Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07_tape cover_02

Haggath / Live Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07_tape cover_03

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-03-11 (rehearsal) DE21_tape track list_02

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-03-11 (rehearsal) DE21_tape

Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

Strawberry Soul

I Love Ya Honey b/w Lost Love

ST

Compilation

ST

GUESS289-color

Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair

45-Something Evil-Die Children Die VINYL 02

45-Something Evil-Die Children Die VINYL 01

45-Something Evil-The Great Winnipeg Riot BACK

Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

Something Evil

Heat

45-Heat - Brighouse bw Rocking Chair VINYL 02

Switchin'

Diodes' Paul Robinson @ Black Swan, Ottawa March 1978 courtesy Cameron Muir

Comments

Robert Williston

ok. thanks. I'll get those posted in the next little while....RW

Anonymous

oops - correct title of the Rockadrome album is "Royal American 20th Century Blues" - vk

Anonymous

I'd like to nominate: the first Cargo album (Front Side Back Side), bil bisset & mandan massacre (Awake in th Red Desert), the first two Intersystems albums, Jeff Moore & Friends (The Youngest Son), the second Reign Ghost album (featuring Lynda Squires), and Rockadrome (20th Century Royal American Blues) - vk