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The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature was the premiere monthly literary journal of Anglophone Canada for three decades.

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History and profile

Edited first by James Gordon Mowat then by John Alexander Cooper, the first issue was printed in 1893. [1] 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. [1] 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." [1] In 1897, the Magazine purchased Massey's Magazine thereby doubling its subscription. [1] Advertisers were railway companies, banks, insurance companies, schools and colleges, brand-name dry goods and liquor producers. [1] Eventually, its publisher would compete against the print cartel run by Hugh Cameron MacLean and William Southam. [1] It reached a circulation of 30,000 subscribers in 1922. [1] In 1925 the circulation of the magazine was 12,604 copies. [2]

The journal featured writers including Stephen Leacock, George Monro Grant, Kate Eva Westlake [3] and Goldwin Smith. Samuel Simonski reported from the front of the Boer War, [4] while John Joseph Mackenzie wrote a layman's guide to bacteria and James Wilberforce Longley wrote articles on Nova Scotian orchards. [1]

Canadian Magazine ended publication in 1938. [5]

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