Various Artists / From Berliner to RCA Victor - The Birth and Rise of the Recording Industry in Canada - CDFew men accomplished more than Emile Berliner (1851 1929) in the field of recorded sound. Berliner invented the phonograph, the microphone and the flat disc and founded no less than three major record companies: EMI, Deutsche Grammophon, and Victor. The Berliner Gramophone Co. was Canadas first record company. Emile Berliner started making records in Montreal in 1900. The recording business which at first sold a few thousands discs went on in a short