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Pacemaker Entertainment is a reissue label based it Toronto, Canada. It was founded by Peter Burnside, Vic Goldman and John Johnson and several non active partners.

History
The record label was started by music collectors Peter Burnside and John Johnston along with industry veteran Victor(Vic) Goldman who had been an agent in Halifax before moving to Toronto and ultimately ended up working for Music World/Pindoff Record Sales. Burnside had previously helped found Dr. Disc, a chain of second-hand/import stores in Southwestern Ontario. He also operated Spindle Records a mail-order business.

While running Spindle, Burnside noticed kept getting requests for a number of Canadian titles that were not available on CD. Seeing an opportunity, he partnered with Goldman and a number of investors and started the label.