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  McClelland and Stewart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
McClelland and Stewart is a Canadian publishing company.
It was founded in 1906 as McClelland and Goodchild by John McClelland and Frederick Goodchild, both originally employed with the Methodist Book Room which was later to become the Ryerson Press.
When Jack McClelland joined the company in 1946, the company started moving away from distribution of books published outside the country.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/McClelland_and_Stewart   (285 words)

  
 Walter Stewart (journalist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Toronto, the son of Miller Stewart and Margaret (Peg) Stewart, both atheists, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation activists and writers and CBC Radio broadcasters on nature, he was a class of 1949 graduate of London South Collegiate in London, Ontario.
Stewart headed the journalism program at University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and later took the Max Bell chair in journalism at the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan.
In the 1990s, Stewart wrote a left-wing column for the Toronto Sun until it was retired in a newspaper budget cut, and was a regular guest host on CBC Radio's As It Happens.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Stewart_(journalist)   (1255 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Canada / Publisher Jack McClelland dies at age 81   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Berton was a good friend of McClelland's and said he was a master of publicity who was prepared to publish books he believed in, even if he knew that they would fail financially.
He recalled that McClelland was a strong force as Canadian literature blossomed in the '60s, '70s and '80s, and began reaching an international readership.
McClelland was born in Toronto on July 30, 1922, and commanded a torpedo boat in World War II.
www.boston.com /news/world/canada/articles/2004/06/16/publisher_jack_mcclelland_dies_at_age_81   (496 words)

  
 McClelland & Stewart Inc
McClelland & Stewart Inc, publishing company founded in 1906 by John McClelland and Frederick Goodchild as McClelland and Goodchild Limited.
When George Stewart joined the firm in 1914, his name was added to the title, but the present form was adopted after Goodchild's departure in 1918.
However, MandS was sold in 1985 to Avie BENNETT and McClelland resigned his position as publisher with the firm in 1987.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004839   (348 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Jack McClelland, 81, led Canadian publishing house   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
McClelland's, said he was a master of publicity who was prepared to publish books he believed in, even if he knew that they would fail financially.
McClelland was a strong force as Canadian literature blossomed in the 1960s, '70s and '80s, and began reaching an international readership.
McClelland had lost his sight and hearing, and he was very ill, said Franklin.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/06/17/jack_mcclelland_81_led_canadian_publishing_house   (340 words)

  
 CBC News: Publisher Jack McClelland dies
McClelland began working for his father's company McClelland and Stewart in 1946.
McClelland had been in frail health since a 1996 accident at his Florida condo.
He was found unconscious at the bottom of the swimming pool and it is thought that he had had a minor stroke.
www.cbc.ca /stories/2004/06/14/canada/mcclelland040614   (548 words)

  
 Major Press Editions – Novels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Surfacing; McClelland and Stewart, 1972; Andre Deutsch, 1973; Simon and Schuster, 1973.
Bodily Harm; McClelland and Stewart, 1981; Simon and Schuster, Cape, 1981.
The Handmaid's Tale; McClelland and Stewart, Houghton Mifflin, 1985; Cape, 1985.
www.owtoad.com /englishnovels.html   (119 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Publishing legend Jack McClelland dies at 81
McClelland cut his last ties with the company in 1987, even though he had agreed to stay on for five years.
Jack McClelland, born in Toronto on July 30, 1922, joined the company in 1946 after the Second World War, in which he rose to the naval rank of captain.
Named John G. McClelland by his parents but called Jake during the war and Jack in peacetime, McClelland became president of M&S in 1961, although he had been the effective head of the firm since 1952.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1087254728078_11?hub=TopStories   (713 words)

  
 The New York Times > Business > John G. McClelland, Publisher in Canada, Dies at 81   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
McClelland's passion for Canadian literature and his promotional flair are widely credited for drawing attention to many of Canada's best-known authors.
McClelland, who was known as Jack, was born in Toronto on July 30, 1922.
McClelland is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; four daughters, Sarah, Carol, Susan and Ann; a son, Robert; and several grandchildren.
www.nytimes.com /2004/06/16/business/16mcclelland.html?ex=1402804800&en=5f0a790ac0c495d3&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND   (745 words)

  
 Blog of Death: Jack McClelland
Unlike other publishers, John G. McClelland was willing to lose money on talented writers.
McClelland became president 15 years later and transformed McClelland & Stewart into a prestigious literary house by publishing and marketing Canadian authors like Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai Richler, Pierre Berton and Margaret Atwood.
McClelland died on June 14 of heart failure.
www.blogofdeath.com /archives/001033.html   (244 words)

  
 Alwynne B. Beaudoin - Reading the Palliser Triangle - Stories
McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 267 pp.
AEU HSS PS 8553 O8995 C6 Joanne Kilbourn is faced with the uncomfortable prospect of reliving or reinvestigating the murder of her own husband six years earlier when the man accused of his murder is himself killed in an apparent drive-by shooting at the jail.
AEU SCI PS 8553 O8995 B87 Professor Joanne Kilbourn is faced with the repercussions of the murder of a young colleague in the PolySci Department of the university in Regina.
www.scirpus.ca /palliser/sect400.htm   (5236 words)

  
 Major Canadian publishing house donated to U of T
The remaining 25 per cent of McClelland and Stewart is being sold to Random House of Canada Ltd. The university will hold five of the seven seats on the firm's board of directors, Random House will hold two seats and Bennett will initially serve as Chairman of the Board.
Founded in 1906, McClelland and Stewart has an unparalleled history in Canada - publishing such authors as Lucy Maud Montgomery, Stephen Leacock, Farley Mowat, Pierre Berton, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, Peter Gzowski, and Michael Ondaatje.
Bennett says that McClelland and Stewart staff are already well into the fall publishing schedule.
www.newsandevents.utoronto.ca /bin1/000626a.asp   (745 words)

  
 McClelland & Stewart
McClelland and Stewart Limited is known as "The Canadian Publishers," something that the company takes very seriously.
Approximately 100 employees at McClelland and Stewart's office in downtown Toronto and its sales people across Canada contribute towards the publication and sale of roughly 100 new books every year.
McClelland and Stewart works directly in the UK and the US and is otherwise represented by approximately 12 agents around the world.
www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /culture/arts/ss_mcclelland&stewart-en.asp   (812 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 00303215   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jack McClelland, the man who set out in the fifties to transform McClelland and Stewart into the country's most exciting publishing house, is renowned as a risk-taker and an entrepreneur, indefatigable, irascible, funny and humane, who did some things well and some things badly - both in extreme measures.
James King interviewed Jack McClelland himself, his family, as well as numerous friends, authors and publishers, and was given unprecedented access to Jack McClelland's papers and the archives of McClelland and Stewart.
This is the candid, captivating biography of a legendary man - and a vivid window onto the lives and habits of this country's writers, as well as the story behind Canada's rise to prominence as a literary powerhouse.
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/random044/00303215.html   (367 words)

  
 cbc.ca
Jack McClelland, an icon of Canadian publishing has died.
McClelland, 81, had been ill for some time.
But perhaps, McClelland's most notable contribution was his marketing of Canadian literature.
www.cbc.ca /cgi-bin/templates/email.cgi?/2004/06/14/mcclelland040614   (415 words)

  
 Stewart House in Bankruptcy - 2/10/2003 - Publishers Weekly
Toronto's Stewart House Publishing Inc. and Stewart House Distribution Services Inc., which were formed in May 2001 when McClelland and Stewart sold the Stewart imprint to management, were the first casualties of the new year.
Stewart House's quick crash and burn is just the latest blow to the Canadian book industry, which is still reeling from the demise of General Publishing and its distribution arm, General Distribution Services, last summer.
Stewart House has more than C$6.4 million outstanding in unsecured debt, or nearly U.S.$10 million.
www.publishersweekly.com /article/CA276149?pubdate=02/10/2003   (322 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Rilla of Ingleside (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1921; New York: Stokes, 1921; London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1921).
Emily Climbs (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1924; New York: Stokes, 1925; London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1925).
Anne of Windy Poplars (New York: Stokes, 1936); republished as Anne of Windy Willows (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1936; London: Harrap, 1936).
www.users.muohio.edu /niesemj/books.html   (577 words)

  
 Pierre Berton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1994; Paul McCusker illustrator.
The National Dream, The Last Spike, Klondike, The Promised Land: A four-part history of Western Canada from Confederation to the Great War.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1961; William Winter illustrator.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierre_Berton   (625 words)

  
 Altoona Bible Church Welcomes New Senior Pastor
Pastor Stewart and his wife Nancy of 25 years both committed their lives as young adults to serving the Lord while attending the Altoona Bible Church.
Along with worship services with stirring music and message’s from God’s Word each Sunday at 10:45 AM and 6:45 PM, there is Sunday School for children and adults at 9:30 AM and a Wednesday Evening prayer and Bible study service at 7:00 PM.
Altoona Bible Church is excited to have Pastor Stewart McClelland and Nancy join the church family.
www.altoonabible.org /Pastorwelcome.htm   (449 words)

  
 Business Library, The University of Western Ontario
McClelland and Stewart originated in Toronto, Ontario, the heart of Canadian
The McClelland and Stewart list of Canadian authors speaks for itself.
Stewart's books, along with those of Tundra and Macfarlane Walter and Ross.
www.lib.uwo.ca /business/mcclelland.html   (1602 words)

  
 UM Libraries - Libraries Wins McClelland and Stewart Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The award was in the form of a complete set of ninety-nine softcover books in the New Canadian Library for the Libraries' collection and a plaque to mark the occasion, which was presented to the Committee on February 27, 1997, by Frank Nolan, Trade Sales Representative in Winnipeg for MandS.
According to the judges of the competition, the Libraries' exhibit "--both in terms of the display itself and the documents that were created to accompany it--was the clear winner".
At the rate of four exhibits per year, the McClelland and Stewart: Celebrating 90 Years of Canadian Publishing display was the seventeenth display created by the Libraries Exhibits Committee since it was formed in 1992.
www.umanitoba.ca /libraries/about/newsletters/recently_uml/m_sr45.html   (331 words)

  
 SFU Institutional Repository: Item 1892/648   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Every book publisher in Canada receives unsolicited submissions from writers hoping to be published but who lack an agent or a connection within the house.
It outlines the ways in which McClelland & Stewart acquires manuscripts, the kinds of submissions the company receives in its slush pile, how it responds to them, and why the company continues to evaluate these proposals.
It finds that, with very rare exceptions, the submissions writers send unsolicited to the company are either in genres the company does not publish, are written at a level the company deems unacceptable for publication,...
hdl.handle.net /1892/648   (227 words)

  
 Fort Frances Times - 2004-06-15 - Renowned Canada publisher dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jack McClelland, whose showmanship and business savvy made McClelland and Stewart one of Canada’s most influential publishing houses, died yesterday at age 81.
Berton was a good friend to McClelland and said he was a master of publicity who was prepared to publish books he believed in—even if he knew that they would fail financially.
Berton said he last saw his old friend a few weeks ago, although he was bedridden and too sick to do much more than wave his hand.
www.fftimes.com /print_version.php/16860   (596 words)

  
 The Writers' Trust of Canada
The Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland and Stewart Journey Prize is awarded annually to a new and developing writer of distinction for a short story published in a Canadian literary publication.
This award is made possible by James A. Michener’s generous donation of his Canadian royalty earnings from his novel Journey, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1988.
The Journey Prize is the most significant monetary award given in Canada to a writer at the beginning of his or her career for a short story or excerpt from a fiction work-in-progress.
www.writerstrust.com /programs_apa_mcclellandstewart.html   (200 words)

  
 PW: Stoddart Loses MW&R To McClelland &Stewart - 1/17/2000 - Publishers Weekly
As of January 13, MacFarlane Walter and Ross teamed up with McClelland and Stewart, with MWandR maintaining its editorial autonomy but using the sales, distribution, production and design resources of one of Canada's most established publishers.
In explaining the change, Jan Walter, a partner of the publishing company, noted that MWandR's vision for the future and its current terms with Stoddart were not compatible.
Under the agreement, McClelland and Stewart will acquire all the unpublished projects currently under contract to MacFarlane Walter and Ross and most of its previously published works.
publishersweekly.com /article/CA167862.html?pubdate=1/17/2000&...   (332 words)

  
 Canadiana - Five Rhinos Book Company
Introduction: Hugo McPherson (NCL 17) Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970.
Introduction: Claude Bissell (NCL 20) Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971.
Introduction: Thomas Saunders (NCL 50) Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1966.
www.fiverhinos.com /canadiana.htm   (2393 words)

  
 Alwynne B. Beaudoin - Reading the Palliser Triangle - Poetry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 68 pp.
McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 75 pp.
More exploration of inward and outward landscapes, focussed on southern and central Alberta and Saskatchewan.
www.scirpus.ca /palliser/sect900.htm   (172 words)

  
 The Writer's Voice Presents Margaret Atwood
Dancing Girls; McClelland and Stewart, Simon and Schuster, 1977; Cape, 1979.
Bluebeard's Egg; McClelland and Stewart, 1983; Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
The Edible Woman; McClelland and Stewart, 1969; Andre Deutsch, 1969; Atlantic Little-Brown, 1970.
www.southwestern.edu /library/writers-voice/atwood.html   (1295 words)

  
 Mordecai Richler (1931- ) : Library of Congress Citations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Published: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart [c1969] Description: 319 p.
Published: Toronto, Montreal, McClelland and Stewart, [c1968] Description: 250 p.
Published: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart [c1971] Description: 467 p.
www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlcrichler.htm   (888 words)

  
 Dalhousie Archives -- Thomas H. Raddall Finding Aid -- Published Books and Pamphlets - Fiction and Poetry
March 11, 1981 - Halifax, NS - From Stewart Mackeen and Covert, Barristers and Solicitors to THR - 1 p.
December 19, 1983 - Toronto, ON - From Ann J. Nelles (McClelland and Stewart) to THR - 1 p.
December 5, 1973 - Toronto, ON - From Laurence H. Ritchie, McClelland and Stewart to THR - 1 p.
www.library.dal.ca /archives/trela/thrfictbook.html   (10468 words)

  
 RE: Forum: McClelland & Stewart & Protectionism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
To the extent that we agree that Canadians making software in Canada for other Canadians is a good thing, that outcome is undesirable.
George Goodwin, Vice President, Corporate Development, McClelland and Stewart Inc. -----Original Message----- From: owner-forum@newmedia-forum.net On Behalf Of Richard Payne Sent: November 4, 1998 8:57 AM Subject: Forum: McClelland and Stewart and Protectionism organisation: n/a date: November 2 message: Mr.
Goodwin of McClelland and Stewart has very diligent in making a case for Canadian cultural protectionism in this forum recently.
www.newmedia-forum.net /forum/forum00313.html   (369 words)

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