Use for company functions only. For Label please use GRT. For French credits see GRT Du Canada Ltée.
Also appears on releases as:
- GRT Of Canada, Ltd.
- GRT Of Canada Limited
- GRT Of Canada
- GRT Records Canada Ltd.
- GRT Records Of Canada Ltd.
Incorporated November 2, 1968. Dissolved December 16, 1980 upon the bankruptcy of its parent company GRT Corporation. Legally known as GRT of Canada, Ltd.
NOTE: When the company name appears on a release in both English and in French please credit both entities in LCCN and state in release notes where to find which version.
Initially based in London, Ontario, as a Canadian manufacturer and distributor of 4-track and 8-track tapes as a subsidiary of label of California.
The marketing offices were relocated from the London manufacturing plant to Toronto, Ontario in 1969, and commenced distributing foreign label records and tapes, as well as concentrating on recording its own artists for its own GRT label. As they expanded into cassettes, a second tape manufacturing plant was opened in Alliston, Ontario in March 1969. The Montreal branch was opened March 16, 1970.
By 1976 GRT of Canada, Ltd. had acquired foreign catalogues of popular music (ABC Records, ABC/Dunhill Records, label, and other labels), classical music (label, label, and label), blues (label), and jazz (label, label, and label), label, label and label.
It also distributed the Canadian labels label and label.
Sub labels were label established Aug 12, 1977 and label established April 20, 1979.
Founding president was artist, who later was the president of MCA Records Canada. Reynolds, was succeeded in 1978 by Gordon Edwards. Original Canadian Sales & Marketing Manager was artist.
Canadian artists who recorded for GRT itself or for the Magnum label included artist, Dan Hill, artist, and artist, the reggae group artist, artist, artist, Lighthouse (2), artist, artist, artist and artist's artist.