Liberty Magazine - The Canadian One
You will gather from the title that I have often written about periodicals and the rationale for doing so is stated in, "Periodical Ramblings (The Series)" which is found back in the summer of 2017. In the last few, I dealt with Look and Saturday Evening Post which, like Liberty, were popular magazines.
I did not grow up in Canada, but if you did in the 1950s and '60s you probably read it or saw it displayed in the newsstands which used to exist. If you have any copies, you should hang onto them since they often fetch a fair price.
Images of the magazine are easy to locate, but the periodical is not. One reason for that is that "liberty" is a word attached to many things, including many different kinds of periodicals There was a very popular Liberty in the United States about which much is found, but that is not true for the Canadian version, although I will add that my searches for it have not been exhaustive.
Apart from having a popular name, the title varied and you will find a Canadian New Liberty Magazine and one with a subtitle: Liberty: Canada's Young Family Magazine.
It was published in Montreal and likely existed over the years from 1932 to 1964 and was edited during the latter years by Frank Rasky who was a popular Canadian author. A paperback edition of the one pictured above is available on Amazon for around $200.
I don't think any copies of Liberty exist in libraries in London. For anyone studying Canadian popular history, it would be an interesting resource. Gale has digitized for researchers the entire collection of the Liberty Magazine published in the United States, ("Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950.")
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