[5] One month later, the church published its first book, starting at first with religious works and later branching out into educational and literary titles.
[2] Shortly after succeeding Briggs as steward in 1919, Samuel W. Fallis decided to create a standard, consistent brand for the company, and chose to honour Ryerson for his founding role.
[1] Under Pierce's editorship, the company was a prominent publisher of educational textbooks, using the profits from this line of business to publish literary work by many of Canada's most important writers of the era, including Frederick Philip Grove, E. J. Pratt, A. J. M. Smith, A. M. Klein, P. K. Page, Dorothy Livesay, Earle Birney, Louis Dudek, Hugh Hood and Marjorie Pickthall.
[2] The sale occasioned a protest in which novelist Graeme Gibson draped the flag of the United States around the statue of Egerton Ryerson on the grounds of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute;[7] Gibson led protesters in a rendition of "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy" after climbing down from the statue.
[1] The company continued to publish Canadian literature for a number of years, including several early works by Alice Munro, although it later shifted to concentrate exclusively on educational and business non-fiction titles.