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Machine pictures taken at an outdoor antique sale in southern Ontario, 2005 (photos by KW).
 








I'm not sure it is the same company but Roll Back The Years, Edward Moogk, National Library of Canada, 1975, on page 61 mentions:

"One machine that never quite got off the ground was the Best-Phone sold by two former Edison employees, J.J. Brophy and E.G. Bryson, from premises at 406-408 Yonge Stree in Toronto.  The Best-Phone was a concealed-horn machine with a duplex sound box and a diamond point and adjustable to play either lateral or horizontal-cut records.  Even at $25, it apparently had little attraction for buyers.  The Canadian Phonograph Company, situated at 103 Yonge Street, took over the Best-Phone but discontinued use of the corporate name."

The above machine is obviously not a Best-Phone.

The following pictures are of a machine for sale in St. Jacobs in Jan. 2010 (photos by KW):
Machine for sale in Toronto, Feb. 2008 (photos by KW):









Arthur Zimmerman sent:

Canadian Phonograph, produced by the National Cabinet Company, Ltd., 485 King Street West, Toronto (phonograph manufacturers for 15 years), CMTJ [Canadian Music Trades Journal], August 1919, p. 97
  KW found this advert from The Toronto World, October 2, 1919 (Simpson's was a large store competitor to Eaton's--they faced each other across Queen Street in Toronto):


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