{{Short description|Canadian literary journal}} {{For|magazines published in Canada|List of Canadian magazines}} The '''''Canadian Magazine''' of Politics, Science, Art and Literature'' was the premiere monthly literary journal of Anglophone Canada for three decades.
==History and profile== Edited first by James Gordon Mowat then by John Alexander Cooper, the first issue was printed in 1893.<ref name=thb>[http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/best_thomas_henry_15E.html biographi.ca: "Best, Thomas Henry"]</ref> Its president was James Colebrooke Patterson, concurrently federal Minister of Militia and Defence, while one of its vice-presidents was Thomas Ballantyne, then Speaker of the Ontario legislature.<ref name=thb/> It was meant to compete with the American offerings of Scribner's and Harper's, and was similarly priced, but focused on "cultivating Canadian patriotism and Canadian interests."<ref name=thb/> In 1897, the Magazine purchased ''Massey's Magazine'' thereby doubling its subscription.<ref name=thb/> Advertisers were railway companies, banks, insurance companies, schools and colleges, brand-name dry goods and liquor producers.<ref name=thb/> Eventually, its publisher would compete against the print cartel run by Hugh Cameron MacLean and William Southam.<ref name=thb/> It reached a circulation of 30,000 subscribers in 1922.<ref name=thb/> In 1925 the circulation of the magazine was 12,604 copies.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Mary Vipond|title=Canadian Nationalism and the Plight of Canadian Magazines in the 1920s|journal=The Canadian Historical Review|date=March 1977|volume=58|issue=1|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/570471/pdf|accessdate=2 January 2017}}</ref>
The journal featured writers including Stephen Leacock, George Monro Grant, Kate Eva Westlake<ref name="VannVanArsdel1996">{{cite book|author1=Jerry Don Vann|author2=Rosemary T. VanArsdel|title=Periodicals of Queen Victoria's Empire: An Exploration|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GcQMpaavVNAC&pg=PA97|year=1996|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-0810-7|page=97}}</ref> and Goldwin Smith. Samuel Simonski reported from the front of the Boer War,<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1948/01/15/archives/samuel-simonski.html nytimes.com: Obituary for "Samuel Simonski"], 15 Jan 1948</ref> while John Joseph Mackenzie wrote a layman's guide to bacteria and James Wilberforce Longley wrote articles on Nova Scotian orchards.<ref name=thb/>
''Canadian Magazine'' ended publication in 1938.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ronald Haycock|title=Image of the Indian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VGE9DgAAQBAJ&pg=PR6|accessdate=22 March 2020|date=1 June 1974|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University Press|isbn=978-1-55458-696-7|page=6}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06251 Canadian Magazine at Canadiana Online, 1893-1921] * [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009995174 Canadian Magazine at Hathitrust]
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Category:Defunct literary magazines published in Canada Category:Magazines established in 1893 Category:Magazines disestablished in 1938 Category:Monthly magazines published in Canada