''Canadian Notes & Queries'' is a literary magazine published in Canada on a triannual basis.
History and profile
The magazine was first published in 1968
by William Morley as a four-page supplement to the ''Abacus'', the newsletter of the
Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada. Modelled on the British ''
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'', it was a journal, as Morley wrote, "of little discoveries encountered, often by serendipity, in the course of scholarly investigation," and queries which often arise in the course of research which are beyond one's "present resources to solve." Morley passed on the magazine to
Douglas (now George) Fetherling 22 years later, and Fetherling, sensing that the
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would soon take over the magazine's function as an academic bulletin, reinvented it until it took on something more closely resembling its present format: a journal of literary, cultural and artistic history and criticism. Fetherling continued publishing the magazine with either "charming" or "calculated" irregularity—until 1997, when he passed it on to Tim and Elke Inkster of the
Porcupine's Quill. The Inksters published 18 more issues over the next nine years, before selling it to publisher and bookseller Dan Wells'
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References
External links
Canadian Notes & Queries
1968 establishments in Ontario
Literary magazines published in Canada
Magazines established in 1968
Magazines published in Ontario
Triannual magazines published in the United Kingdom
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