Collections

This room is dedicated to those Canadian artists who brought their music beyond our borders and left an indelible mark on the global stage. Foreign Pressings highlights rare and...

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This is a special place within the Museum of Canadian Music, reserved for featured artists who stand among the most important contributors to Canada’s...

It seems Canadians have been singing about hockey for about as long as we’ve been lacing up skates. From backyard rinks to the big leagues, the game has inspired anthems, ballad...

A radiant tribute to the voices, rhythms, and stories of Black Canadians across generations. This collection spans nearly 4,000 tracks of reggae, Caribbean sounds, hip-hop, soul...

This is the room where the hair is high and the vibes are louder. BIG HAIR celebrates the glorious era(s) when volume wasn’t just for music—it was a lifestyle. Across all genres...

MOCM: BANGERS brings together Canadian tracks that hit hard from the first bar — across rock, funk, prog, disco, soul, punk, gospel, and beyond. No fillers, no skips, just recor...

A musical map of the True North, Canadian Places features songs inspired by the cities, towns, provinces, territories, and regions that define our vast and varied landscape. Fro...

Step into the dark and mysterious corners of Canada's musical legacy. Haunted Halloween Canadian Style is the ultimate Canadian horror soundtrack—a collection that melds eerie f...

This room celebrates the vibrant legacy of Jamaican immigrants who settled across Ontario—not just in Toronto, but also in cities like Hamilton, London, Windsor, Ottawa, and bey...

Canada is home to the second largest Ukrainian diaspora in the world, and their musical legacy runs deep. Ukrainian Power celebrates the rich traditions and modern expressions o...

Welcome to a gallery of glorious roughness. Primitive Cover Artwork celebrates the raw, the hand-drawn, the awkwardly charming visuals that graced some of Canada’s most obscure ...

This room will be dedicated to the golden age of Canadian broadcasting—when radio and television were not only national pastimes but cultural lifelines. Canadian Radio and Telev...

There’s something timeless about the sound of a train—and Canadians have been singing about it for generations. Trains is a collection of songs that capture the rhythm of the ra...

Step into the weird and wonderful. Canadian Oddities is a collection of the most offbeat, obscure, and delightfully strange recordings ever to surface in the Great White North. ...

From Sasquatch to Ogopogo, Wendigo to werewolves on the Prairies—Canadian Monsters prowls the folklore, forests, and fever dreams of the Great White North. This collection featu...