Our History
The Museum of Canadian Music's home base is located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
We are Canada's first National Museum featuring Canadian music in all it's varities. We are actively pursuing a physical location to house and display one of the greatest collections of Canadian music anywhere in the world.
The Museum of Canadian Music researches, collects, preserves and promotes Canadian Music. Artists who sell their music on this site will receive 100% of the gross sales proceeds. Sound files are posted to enrichen the lives of the visitor by exposing the visitor to our expansive and rich Canadian culture. If you are the owner of a sound recording that has been posted on this website and you do not want people to be able to hear the music here, kindly contact the owner of the site and I will remove it.
The Museum was created to tell the story of Canada's magnificent cultural history, specifically relating to music and other sound recordings by Canadian Artists. Canada's rich and diversified musical kaleidoscope is of cultural importance and significance.
This Museum is the only private Music Museum in Canada that's purpose is to collect and catalogue and document every Canadian recording, in all of their variations. We are preserving and protecting Canadian musical heritage.
We enourage and welcome any artists that would like to have their music made available for download and purchase on this website - it's free to post your music - you will receive 100% of your music sales. Please send us your CD's so that we can feature your music. Visit the 'About Us' - 'Contact Info' for our address.
To date, the Museum has not received any donations from any agency, public or private. It is funded privately by Robert Williston.
The Museum of Canadian Music was started in 2005.
The Museum of Canadian Music was Trade Marked in February, 2009.
The website went live on July 1, 2010.
We are seeking individuals to fill Operations Manager roles for the following locations:
Canada's North, Vancouver Island, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton
The Museum of Canadian Music contains one of the largest private collections of Canadian music artifacts anywhere in the world. We are currently digitizing the collection. The collection contains many rare recordings not found in any other National museums.
We also will digitize your LP free of charge and sell your older albums or 45's.
Thanks all for your support of Canadian Music and Canadian culture. We hope you enjoy your visit. Please buy music from this site.
This site:
-contains discographical and biographical information of Canadian music (45,000+).
-contains listening rooms with juke boxes in each room. Personalize your listening experience. Multiple rooms can be added to the juke box. Individual tracks can be added or removed from the listening experience.
-contains ability to create and manage playlists. These playlists can be listened to anywhere - at the home, office, even on your iphone.
-offers the values of over 12,500 original titles (approx $770,000.00 in total values to date) by Canadian artists (Canadian music is rare and good and sought after by collectors worldwide).
-contains Canadian Collections with photos and juke boxes in each room - you will need a membership to see these interesting collections of Canadian Music, being built on a daily basis. Watch them grow - discover great Canadian Music.
Please support Canadian music and buy music from either this site, directly from the artist's site, or from the artist's preferred distributors. All work on this site is 100% volunteer. The only people who get paid are the artists themselves.
We do not sell any physical media (no CD's or LP's). All sales of music are digital download only. All sales and downloads of digital media available on this website are made possible and approved by Canadian artists themselves and are protected by Copyright Act of Canada. Other sound files are made available to be heard through the Fair Dealing provision in the Act.