NB: A version of this post was presented during the English and Film Studies Postdoc Talk Series at the University of Alberta The UAL’s digitization of The Western Home Monthly lets us do a lot more than just post hilarious old ads and pictures of children

We don’t have many of the earliest issues of The Western Home Monthly, but what we do have paints a picture of a magazine eager to expand and improve rapidly, in terms of subscribers and print production. In May 1901 the editors