Editing Stompin' Tom Connors (section)

===Promoting Canadian artists===
Connors founded three record labels, which promoted not just his own work, but that of other Canadian artists:
* [[Boot Records]], together with its budget label Cynda, which were active in the 1970s and 1980s
* A-C-T, active from the late 1980s

Among artists who were featured on these labels were [[Liona Boyd]],<ref name="Stevenson">{{cite news|title=Love for Stompin' Tom Connors went beyond Canada's borders|author=Jane Stevenson|url=http://www.torontosun.com/2013/03/07/love-for-stompin-tom-connors-went-beyond-canadas-borders|newspaper=[[Toronto Sun]]|date=March 7, 2013|access-date=March 10, 2013}}</ref> [[Rita MacNeil]], [[The Canadian Brass]], [[Dixie Flyers]], [[Charlie Panigoniak]], among others. [[Liona Boyd]] recalled in 2013 about the time Connors signed Boyd to Boot for her first record, 1974's ''The Guitar'', and two more:

{{Blockquote|It was Tom's vision obviously. And as I understood it, he wasn't really a fan of classical music but he had heard Canada had no classical label, which was absolutely true. So bless him, he went and decided he'd be the first one. And he signed myself and the [[Canadian Brass]]. It's like me deciding, "Well listen, maybe I don't know much about [[rap]], but hey Canada's doesn't have a rap label, I'll go and do it." So he was a bit of a pioneer with classical music.<ref name="Stevenson" />
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