Drawing from local non-profit Archive Montreal’s huge collection of local music scene material, Montreal Sound Ark brings you the best of the Montreal underground from yesterday.

Interviews, memories, insights and accompanying ephemera on the show’s blog will flesh out the journey through three decades of do-it-yourself sounds in Montreal. Hosted by longtime scenester and digger Louis Rastelli (DJ LRX80) with regular guests and guest DJs.

Every Tuesday 9 - 11pm (EST)

October 21, 2025: Sixties Seventies Quebec Canada and beyond all vinyl rarities

Jean-Francois Dubois was a radio DJ for decades, starting in Montreal in the 1960s on AM radio stations such as CKLN. He moved to Regina, Saskatchewan in 1973 to work at Radio-Canada, and became an important figure in the Fransaskois community (Francophone Saskatchewan). He continued to be a DJ on Montreal radio when he returned in the late 1980s. The ARCMTL archive centre was contacted by his children a few months after his passing earlier in 2025 offering a donation of a few thousand albums from the vast record collection he left behind. They were very happy to find a Montreal archive centre with a large Quebec music collection that also hosts a radio show, so that these records get played on the airwaves once again. The donation included many rare and odd Cancon gems from the 1960s and 70s. Many of the albums have notes on the song lists, often noting out which intro or outro of which song was used for a radio ad or station promo. Dubois' picks tend to be the best songs on any given album. It's been a realy treat and an honour to do a deep dive into this collection on Montreal Sound Ark. You can find Dubois' obituary here: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2150540/radio-jean-francois-dubois-deces

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