The Record Keepers

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The Record Keepers drops the needle on the stories of Canada’s record stores and the people who sustain them. Join the author as he goes crate digging from coast to coast to coast, meeting the owners of long-running neighbourhood institutions, new shops shaping local scenes, women-led record stores, family-owned businesses, and independent regional chains. Readers will meet the Alberta teen who became the country’s youngest record store owner at just 17, the Saskatoon collectors who quit their day jobs to save their beloved shop, the 19-year-old Winnipegger who nervously slept on his shop floor the night before his grand opening, a Hamilton owner whose record store was founded with wartime internment redress payments, and a Vancouver owner who uncovered a Beatles recording so rare he personally delivered it to Paul McCartney.