Bernard Keble Sandwell (1876-1954)

Photos by Alan L Brown - September 2006

I used to read Saturday Night magazine quite regularly until it died recently. There's a Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque here at the Graphic Arts Building at 73 Richmond Street West at the corner of Sheppard Street with the story of one of its early editors:

Journalist, essayist, lecturer and academic, B.K. Sandwell is best remembered as the influential editor (1932-1951) of Saturday Night, which he made the voice of English Canadian liberalism. B.K. was a prolific writer, whose ambition was to achieve clear thinking on human problems and who was read widely for his great wit, shrewdness and grace of expression. His views on a wide range of subjects guided the options of an exclusive but important audience. In his ardent defence of civil liberties, he was ahead of his generation.

Plaque Location Co-ordinates: 43.650811 -79.382486

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