The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature was the premiere monthly literary journal of Anglophone Canada for three decades.
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] Eventually, its publisher would compete against the print cartel run by Hugh Cameron MacLean and William Southam.
[2] The journal featured writers including Stephen Leacock, George Monro Grant, Kate Eva Westlake[3] and Goldwin Smith.