Canadian Forum

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The Canadian Forum was a literary, cultural and political publication and Canada's longest running continually published political magazine (1920–2000).[1]

History and profile

The Canadian Forum, A Monthly Journal of Literature and Public Affairs, was founded on 14 May 1920[2] at the University of Toronto as a forum for political and cultural ideas. Its first directors were G. E. Jackson, chairman, Barker Fairley, literary editor, C. B. Sissons,[3] political editor, Peter Sandiford,[4] business manager and Huntly Gordon, press editor.[5] Throughout its publishing run it was Canadian nationalist and progressive in outlook.[1]

Politically, it was a forum for thinkers such as Frank Underhill, F. R. Scott, Ramsay Cook, Mel Watkins, John Alan Lee, Eugene Forsey[1] and Robert Fulford.[6] Poetry and short stories by Irving Layton, Earle Birney, A. J. M. Smith, Helen Weinzweig, Margaret Atwood,[1] Al Purdy and E. J. Pratt,[7] appeared[6] as well as editorials,[8] reviews and articles discussing art and artists, sometimes written by the artists themselves, such as A. Y. Jackson,[9] or Lawren Harris.[10] J. E. H. MacDonald[11] and Bertram Brooker[12] even contributed their poetry. From 1928 on, critic Robert Ayre began to contribute reviews.[13]

The Forum prided itself on reproducing a picture by a Canadian artist in each issue, "selected by competent critics",[14] though leaning towards the progressive side in art, at least in the early years.[15] Art editors included Pegi Nicol MacLeod.[16] Among the artists who lent their work to the publication the most often used was Thoreau MacDonald but a pen sketch by Tom Thomson (now lost) also appeared.[17] It published the art work of the Group of Seven and many other artists in black-and-white, one work per issue. The full range of the artists published in the Forum was discussed in the Fiftieth Anniversary issue in a lengthy article by the then art editor (1970-1975) Joan Murray.[18][19]

In 1934, publisher Steven Cartwright purchased the periodical from J.M. Dent & Sons.[20] After owning it for about a year, Cartwright unloaded the money-losing venture for one dollar to Graham Spry a member of the socially progressive think tank the League for Social Reconstruction (LSR).[20] It was printed using Spy's printing press company, Stafford Printers, which also printed the Ontario CCF's newspaper The New Commonwealth.[20] Spry purchased the press with financial help from both the LSR and English socialist Sir Stafford Cripps, hence the name Stafford Press.[20] in 1936, the LSR bought the Forum for one-dollar from Spry, and assumed all its debts.[21] University of Toronto Classics professor George Grube, a member of the LSR, became the editor in 1937.[22] During his tenure, the periodical was the LSR's official organ.[23] Grube stepped down as editor in 1941, about a year before the LSR officially disbanded.[22] It has also been operated at times as a co-operative and was owned for a number of years by James Lorimer and Co.[1]

Editors have included Mark Farrell,[24] G. M. A. Grube,[22] J. Francis White, Northrop Frye, Milton Wilson, Abraham Rotstein, Denis Smith and the final editor Duncan Cameron.[1]

The magazine suspended publication following its summer 2000 issue.[6] The Canadian Forum Archives (1953-1978) is at Trent University Library and Archives in Peterborough, Ontario.[25]

Notes

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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  3. ↑ Charles Bruce Sissons (1879–1965)
  4. ↑ (1882–1941)
  5. ↑ Canadian Forum, vol. 1, No. 1, Oct. 1920, p. 14 and No. 2, Nov. 1920, p. 45
  6. ↑ a b c Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  7. ↑ E. J,. Pratt, "The Ice-Floes". The Canadian Forum vol. 2 (April 1922), pp. 591-593
  8. ↑ "Editorial".The Canadian Forum 1 (November 1920 ), p. 27.
  9. ↑ A. Y. Jackson, "Sketching in Algoma". The Canadian Forum vol. 1 (March 1921), pp. 174-175.
  10. ↑ Lawren Harris, "Modern Art and Aesthetic Reactions". The Canadian Forum vol. 7 (May 1927), pp. 239-292.
  11. ↑ J. E. H. MacDonald, "Poems". The Canadian Forum, vol. 2 (May 1922), p. 624.
  12. ↑ Bertram Brooker, The Canadian Forum, vol. 10 (April 1930) p. 252p. 399; vol. 11 (Nv. 1930), p. 61.
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  14. ↑ The Canadian Forum vol. 3 (November 1922), p. 64.
  15. ↑ Helen Frye, "Portrait of the Artist in a Young Magazine". The Canadian Forum vol. 22 (May 1942), p. 54.
  16. ↑ G. Campbell McInnes, 'No. 8 - Pegi Nicol". The Canadian Forum vol. 17 (Sept. 1937), p. 202-203.
  17. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  18. ↑ Joan Murray, "Graphics in the Forum 1920-1951". The Canadian Forum, vol. 50 (April-May 1970), pp. 42-45.
  19. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  20. ↑ a b c d Horn (1980), p.129
  21. ↑ Horn (1980), p. 130
  22. ↑ a b c Podlecki (1994), p. 237
  23. ↑ Horn (1980), pp. 14, 202
  24. ↑ Horn (1980), p. 131
  25. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".

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