← Apple Albums Released in Canada
Abbey Road
Compo NO "Her Majesty"
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RCA NO "Her Majesty"
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Compo with "Her Majesty"
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CBS, Red Box Posterboard
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Apple CBS Posterboard
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Apple + Mississauga Address
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Orange 2nd ®
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Orange 3rd Generation
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Purple 1st Gen. Cinram
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Purple 1st Gen. Capitol
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Purple 2nd, ABBY mistake
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Purple 2nd Generation
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Purple 2nd, Black Cardboard
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Purple 3rd Gen. Cinram
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Purple 3rd Generation
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Retro Rainbow Capitol
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Retro Rainbow Columbia
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Reel Tapes (1970)
As a general rule for Canadian Beatles reel tapes, both the tapes and boxes were manufactured in Canada, but slicks were often made by using US artwork. The best way to distinguish the Canadian pressings from the US issues is the color of the box: Canada always used WHITE cardboard boxes, while the USA used either BROWN or BLUE boxes.
That being said, it is not known if Apple albums were ever produced in the reel format in Canada (with a white box) - All examples found to date are US brown box tapes, which might have been imported to Canada instead of being manufactured here. Until a Canadian Apple tape is documented, the present archive only lists the Gold Box Series for Apple reels.
Gold Box box, 5"
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8 Track Tapes (1969-1980)
Beatles 8 Track releases are usually found in five main series produced in Canada between 1968 and 1980: White shell with white paper labels, Transitional hybrid configurations, Black shell (AMPEX Datapack), Black shell (Lear Jet) and Black Shell (Capitol) many of which have their own "sub-variations". See the TAPES section for more details.
White Datapack Shell
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Transitional White Shell
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Transitional Black Shell
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Black Datapack Shell
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Lear Jet Shell USA Artwork
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Lear Jet Shell CDA Artwork
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Black Capitol Shell
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Cassette Tapes (1969-1993)
Cassette tapes were introduced in Canada as late as the fall of 1968 or early 1969. Cassettes could/would have been imported from the USA prior to this. There appears to be eight main series of cassette tapes produced in Canada between 1968 and 1993: Blue Spine, Black spine, Light Bue Spine, Black and Yellow, Black and Yellow SDR, Light Blue SDR, color Inlay (5 series) and Modern Apple tapes, all of which have their own "sub-variations".
Blue Spine, White Labels
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Blue Spine, Yellow Labels
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Blue Spine, Beige Shell
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Blue Spine, Black Shell
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Blue Spine, Target Logo
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SDR Black Shell
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SDR Cream Shell
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Black and Yellow
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Color Inlay, 4XT
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Color Inlay, C4
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Color Inlay, C4 Apple
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C4 Apple XDR Clear shell
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Compact Discs (1989-Present)
Canada started pressing Beatles compact discs in 1989, as the "official" Beatles catalogue was being standardized through the CLJ and CD series. Early copies were pressed by Disque Americ and CINRAM, while later copies were pressed by EMI, before differing to Cinram again until today. Keep in mind that throughout these pressing periods, CDs were also sporadically imported from the US and the EU to meet demand, instead of being locally made.
Disque Americ 1
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Cinram 1
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Disque Americ 2
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Cinram 2
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EMI pressing 1
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EMI pressing 2
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2009 Remaster Cinram
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Promotional Poster (1970s)
Capitol often prepared promotional flats (one-sided displays for shops) where the front cover of the album was made as a mockup of the actual record jacket. Often these were the front slick over a simple or double piece of cardboard with a blank back (see Long Tall Sally for another example). This example here seems to be a jacket frame with only a front slick, off which the back part of the frame was cut out (Many of these had a die-cut triangular foldable flap allowing the display to stand on a table, this is what seems to have been cut out). Later promo flats from the 1980s are simply printed on a single piece of cardboard (like a one-sided posterboard).
Promotional Flat, early 1970s, 12X12"
