Harvey Glatt, an Ottawa-based music manager, promoter, retailer and radio station owner, formally established Posterity Records in 1976, following a 1963 release, under the Posterity label, of a record by Canadian poet Irving Layton.
During its approximate six-year existence in the 1970s and early 1980s, the label released records by Lenny Breau, the Downchild Blues Band, Ian Tamblyn, and others.
Posterity Records ceased issuing new releases in 1981 and assigned its distribution rights to Phonodisc Limited, at the time Canada's largest independent manufacturer and distributor of records and tapes.
[2] The Posterity-Woodshed label continued to issue new releases until Posterity Records completely ceased operations in 1984.
[3] Posterity Records' first release was a recording of poet Irving Layton reading at Le Hibou Coffee House in 1963, produced by William Hawkins, with liner notes by Roy MacSkimming.