BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

The British Columbia Monthly

1911 - 1927 - ?

The British Columbia Monthly was established in 1911, as noted on its masthead, and claimed to be "Devoted to COMMUNITY - SERVICE - FEARLESS - FAIR & FREE." The publication contained a wide variety of articles, reviews, photographs, artwork, writing, and poetry. The Editor was David A. Chalmers, who was living at 1206 Bute Street in 1926. (F.B. Urquhart is noted as the resident in the Directory's street address listing).

Note: only art & artist related information is noted below.

Ernest Royal McTaggart was noted as being the cartoonist for the publication, at least from 1923 to 1925.


Ernest Royal McTaggart, June 1923 (click to enlarge)

Alice Winlow wrote a number of art exhibition reviews in the Monthly:
      Semi-Annual Exhibit by the Vancouver Sketch Club, June 1923
      Impressions of the Sketch Club, March 1924
      Exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Art, June 1924
      September Exhibition of the Vancouver Sketch Club, September 1924

Articles about art and artists by other authors were also published:
      Our Germ of Art, by Eugene de Lopatecki, December 1912
      The Midsummer Exhibit of the Vancouver Sketch Club, by Bertha Lewis, July 1924
      Educational Notes, by "Spectator", December 1924
      October Exhibition of the Vancouver Sketch Club, by Bertha Lawis, October 1924
      B.C. Art League, December 1927


Sketch of Bernard McEvoy by Charles Henry Rawson
British Columbia Monthly, March/April 1921

A regular feature of the publication was "Verse by Western Canadian Writers." The October 1924 issue noted that "The "Vancouver Poetry Club" held a contest for unsigned poems to be submitted to the vote. The following poem (Reconciliation) by Mrs. Alice M Winlow won the highest number of votes and received the prize, which was a beautiful water-color of "The Lions," the work of Miss May P. Judge." Winlow's writing - prose and poems - was regularly published in the Monthly:
      Musical Prose, August 1924
      Blue Winds, August 1924
      Reconciliation, October 1924
      Moonlight On Bute Inlet, April 1925
      Lake Louise, 1926
      The Christmas Tree That Sang, December 1926

The September 1926 issue had a brief biography of Winlow, written by Bertha Lewis.

The February 1927 issue had a review of Winlow's book "The Miracle of Roses," a 94-page volume noted as being published by Chalmers in Vancouver, presumably the same Chalmers who was Editor of the BC Monthly. The book contained a one-act play and a number of poems.



Ernest Royal McTaggart, September 1924 (click to enlarge)


November 1926 advertisement in British Columbia Monthly

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