# Canadian Magazine

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{{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](/source/James_Gordon_Mowat) then by [John Alexander Cooper](/source/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](/source/James_Colebrooke_Patterson), concurrently federal Minister of Militia and Defence, while one of its vice-presidents was [Thomas Ballantyne](/source/Thomas_Ballantyne_(politician)), then [Speaker of the Ontario legislature](/source/Speaker_of_the_Ontario_legislature).<ref name=thb/> It was meant to compete with the American offerings of [Scribner's](/source/Scribner's) and [Harper's](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Hugh_Cameron_MacLean) and [William Southam](/source/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](/source/Stephen_Leacock), [George Monro Grant](/source/George_Monro_Grant), [Kate Eva Westlake](/source/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](/source/Goldwin_Smith).  [Samuel Simonski](/source/Samuel_Simonski) reported from the front of the [Boer War](/source/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](/source/John_Joseph_Mackenzie) wrote a layman's guide to [bacteria](/source/bacteria) and [James Wilberforce Longley](/source/James_Wilberforce_Longley) wrote articles on [Nova Scotian](/source/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>

==References==
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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

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