Greatest Canadian Album Covers

This room celebrates the bold, bizarre, beautiful, and iconic artwork that has graced the front of Canada’s finest records. Greatest Canadian Album Covers is a visual tribute to the designers, illustrators, photographers, and artists who helped define eras and genres with a single image. From psychedelic masterpieces to DIY punk collages, sleek modernism to outsider oddities—these covers are more than packaging; they’re part of the story. Flip through the sleeves of Canadian music history, one unforgettable image at a time.

bpNichol - Motherlove vinyl side 2

Black Knight - Master of Disaster

Les Dales Hawerchuk - ST foldout

Compilation - Winnipeg Vol 1

Melchior Alias - ST BACK

British Modbeats - Mod Is

Rob Jeffrey

Skarecrow - (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que

Mutual Understanding - In Wonderland

Trevor Dandy - Don't Cry Little Tree

In the Beginning

Skarecrow

Plume Latraverse - Le Vieux Show Son Sale BACK

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A Benefit Show by the Village STOP

Tracks

Artist Track Title
L'infonie Toutes les Affaires s'en vont sur toutes les cotes en meme temps, tout l'temps Vol 3
Dufresne, Diane Le signal final À part de d'ça, j'me sens ben / Opéra cirque
Melchior Alias Camping ST
British North American Act I'll Find a Way In the Beginning
Compilation Alaci Tulaugak & Nellie Nungak - Sound of Wind ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
Pomerance, Erica You Used to Think You Used To Think
Compilation Alasi Alasuak, Nellie Nungak, Mary Sivuarapik & Alaci Tulaugak - Song About the World ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
Baloue, Lewis Summer's Moon L'amour
CBC Folk Arts Orchestra Frailach (Jewish) Presents Canadians All: A Musical Mosaic of Canadian Folk Songs & Dances from the Prairies: Directed by Dick Seaborn
Compilation Alasi Alasuak & Nellie Nungak - Sound of a Goose ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
Peter & Mary (Peter Jansen & Mary Kingsley) You Needed Me (Goodrum, Chappell, Ironside) Peter & Mary And Friends
Mutual Understanding Look Around In Wonderland
Canada Pops Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft Did You Know?
Mutual Understanding San Jose In Wonderland
British North American Act See How Free In the Beginning
CBC Folk Arts Orchestra Kubilas (Lithuanian) Presents Canadians All: A Musical Mosaic of Canadian Folk Songs & Dances from the Prairies: Directed by Dick Seaborn
Baloue, Lewis Love Showered Me L'amour
British North American Act Joe Cool In the Beginning
Dales Hawerchuk, Les Abuse de moé ST
Bunchofuckingoofs Profit Margin Carnival of Chaos + Carnage
Dales Hawerchuk, Les Crocodile ST
Vini Vidi Vici with Princess Demeny Ou sommes nous? Vini Vidi Vici
Fortier, Jean Léon Non Plus ST
Islanders Two Summer Wages Personally Yours
Iron Gypsy Oh I Need Your Lovin' ST
Vini Vidi Vici with Princess Demeny New York Grief Vini Vidi Vici
British North American Act Just How You Feel In the Beginning
Aut'chose Beau bummage Le Couchemar américain
Pagliaro, Michel Magic Moments Pagliaro
Charlebois, Robert Demain l'hiver ST
Evaporators Your Instrument Does Not Affect Me United Empire Loyalists
Canada Pops Both Sides Now Did You Know?
Dandy, Trevor Is There Any Love? Don't Cry Little Tree
Dales Hawerchuk, Les Corps mort ST
La Révolution Française Shoo doo be doo Québecois
Bunchofuckingoofs In Dog We Trust Carnival of Chaos + Carnage
Heads in the Sky On My Way to Freedom ST
Gregorash, Joey Bye Bye Baby North Country Funk
Mutual Understanding Out of This World In Wonderland
Mutual Understanding Everybody Loves My Baby In Wonderland
Compilation Alasi Alasuak - Look Where Somebody Slept ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
Compilation Judy Singh - My Name is Love Unselfconsciously Canadian
Compilation Alasi Alasuak & Nellie Nungak - Story of a Goose ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
Dales Hawerchuk, Les En déshabillé ST
Compilation Alasi Alasuak - My Hands Are Cold ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
Pomerance, Erica To Leonard From the Hospital You Used To Think
British North American Act Only a Dream In the Beginning
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Bill Bissett’s Lullaby Motherlove
Houston Fly ST
Dufresne, Diane Rock pour un gars d'bicyc À part de d'ça, j'me sens ben / Opéra cirque
Compilation Lucy Amarualik & Mary Sivuarapik - Sound of a Cooking Seal Flipper ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
Compilation Good Fortune - Ring in His Nose Winnipeg Vol 1
Gregorash, Joey Dollar Bill North Country Funk
Latraverse, Plume (Michel Proulx) Lit vert Le Vieux Show Son Sale
Gregorash, Joey The Key North Country Funk
Evaporators Vampire Blues United Empire Loyalists
CBC Folk Arts Orchestra Fuoco Del Sud (Italian) Presents Canadians All: A Musical Mosaic of Canadian Folk Songs & Dances from the Prairies: Directed by Dick Seaborn
L'infonie L'affaire Vol 3
Compilation The Mongrels - Heartaches Winnipeg Vol 1
Pagliaro, Michel It Ain't the Way Pagliaro
British North American Act All the World is In Your Eyes In the Beginning
Compilation Alasi Alasuak - Song for a Baby ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
Dales Hawerchuk, Les Ya! ST
Baloue, Lewis I Thought The World Of You L'amour
Peter & Mary (Peter Jansen & Mary Kingsley) Listen to the Rain (Peter Jansen) Peter & Mary And Friends
Latraverse, Plume (Michel Proulx) Adiadyll Le Vieux Show Son Sale
Daines, Ivan Mom And Dad I Love You Ivan
La Révolution Française Pierre-Paul Ladouceur Québecois
Charlebois, Robert Marie Noël ST
Compilation Nellie Nungak & Mary Sivuarapik - Sound of a River ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
Bunchofuckingoofs Later Carnival of Chaos + Carnage
Black Knight Master Of Disaster Master of Disaster (EP)
Compilation Alasi Alasuak - Song Game of a Blindfolded Person ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
Fortier, Jean La Chanson Pour Whizzim ST
Heads in the Sky Atlantis Lies ST
Canada Pops Up Where We Belong Did You Know?
Pagliaro, Michel Sugar Lips Pagliaro
Moses Wastin' My Time End of the Line
Daines, Ivan Take Me Back Ivan
Moses Ballerina Dance End of the Line
Islanders Two Green Green Grass Of Home Personally Yours
Latraverse, Plume (Michel Proulx) Le tango des concaves Le Vieux Show Son Sale
Dales Hawerchuk, Les La nouvelle ST
Latraverse, Plume (Michel Proulx) Le rock 'n' roll du grand flanc mou Le Vieux Show Son Sale
Vini Vidi Vici with Princess Demeny Vini Vidi Vici Vini Vidi Vici
Islanders Two Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me Personally Yours
CBC Folk Arts Orchestra Jukas Jarvi (Finnish) Presents Canadians All: A Musical Mosaic of Canadian Folk Songs & Dances from the Prairies: Directed by Dick Seaborn
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Incest Song Motherlove
Dixon, Glenn A Song for Canada Cardboard Heroes
Islanders Two I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Personally Yours
Evaporators Nardwuar Vs. Alice Cooper United Empire Loyalists
Wankin Family Local Youths (Gassenhauer) We Did It For the Kids
Iron Gypsy Hell 'n' Back ST
CBC Folk Arts Orchestra Kujawiak (Polish Highland Dance) Presents Canadians All: A Musical Mosaic of Canadian Folk Songs & Dances from the Prairies: Directed by Dick Seaborn
Latraverse, Plume (Michel Proulx) Équinoxes Le Vieux Show Son Sale
Houston All My Life ST
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
Latraverse, Plume (Michel Proulx) Stella Daily Breakfeast Blues Le Vieux Show Son Sale
Pomerance, Erica Burn Baby Burn You Used To Think
British North American Act The World Would Understand In the Beginning

Comments

Anonymous

A few other incredible covers: Harmonium (Les cinq saisons), Spirit of Christmas (Lies to Live By) and Jarvis Street Revue (Mr. Oilman). Not only do these covers stand alone as incredible artwork, they also capture perfectly the spirit of the music they represent - vk