Canadian Music Trades Journal, August 1918, p. 105: "New Talking Machine Company - Minerva Phonograph Co., Ltd., has been incorporated with an Ontario charter to manufacture, buy, sell, import and desl in musical instruments, talking machines and parts thereof. The capital of the Company is to be forty thousand dollars, divided into four hundred Shares of one hundred dollars each; the Head Office of the Company to be in Toronto.
Talking Machine World, September 15, 1918, p. 36: "Minerva Mfg. Co., Ltd., of Toronto, a newly incorporated firm, has been organized for the purpose of manufacturing the Sonora line of phonographs in Canada."
In 1927, the T. Eaton Co. Limited, Toronto, Ontario began selling the Minerva One Dial Six Console battery-operated radio. In 1928 Eaton's introduced the new Minerva console-model batteryless radio built especially for that company "by one of Canada's largest radio manufacturers ... with a McLagan-built walnut cabinet."
About 1926 or 1927 an orthophonic-style console phonograph labelled Minerva entered the market (see example below), with a cabinet presumably built by The George McLagan Furniture Co., Ltd., Stratford, Ontario because the grill design is identical to the 1928 Minerva batteryless radio.
Toronto Daily Star, December 20, 1927, p. 32.
The Globe, October 17, 1928, p. 24.
The Globe, October 25, 1928, p. 28.
Toronto Daily Star, November 9, 1928, p. 32.
Toronto Daily Star, November 16, 1928, p. 34.
An Minerva-labelled phonograph listed through Facebook Marketplace in 2024 in Kitchener, Ontario.
Two Minerva label records pressed in 1935 for the T. Eaton Company, Toronto by the Compo Company of Lachine, Quebec.
