Canadian Talent Library

Canadian Talent Library Trust (CTL) was a non-profit trust that produced a major series of recordings 1962-85 by Canadian artists and of Canadian compositions. It was conceived by Lyman Potts and initiated by the Standard Broadcasting Corporation-owned radio stations CFRB (Toronto) and CJAD (Montreal).  Initially the CTL distributed its recordings only to subscribing broadcast stations, but in 1966, with its 80th project, it began leasing its masters for commercial release to RCA, Columbia (Sony), Capitol, GRT, Quality, United Artists, and Intercan.

By 1985, when the CTL was merged with FACTOR and ceased production, it had released 268 LPs.