The literary magazine run out of St Francis Xavier, the Catholic university in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and the archive's main evidence for McLuhan's reception outside Toronto. George Sanderson edited it, popularized McLuhan through it, visited Toronto yearly, and published a book on him — which is why Bob calls him "the next generation of McLuhan." Cameron complicates the founding, crediting the Jesuit McSweeney with starting it and Sanderson with taking it over. It belongs to the Nova Scotia cluster the pair map at length — alongside the Dalhousie Review — as the eastern channel through which McLuhan's work moved. Start at dialogue 18.
Across the dialogues
Acquires a founding dispute and a location, placed inside the Nova Scotia network the session spends its last hour mapping
The magazine is described entirely through its editor's traffic with one man, which is how the archive measures a periodical — not by what it printed but by whose reputation it carried east.
"popularized McLuhan a great deal through that magazine, was a great friend of McLuhan, always visited Toronto at least once a year, and published a book on McLuhan."Bob Dobbs, The Resonant Interval, Dialogue 18 (18 Mar 2021), 2:24:47
The founding is quietly taken away from the figure the session has been building up, which is Cameron's recurring corrective — the institutions Bob attributes to his acquaintances usually predate them.
"So I think it was him, actually, that started the Antigonish Review, and then George took it over from him."Cameron McEwen, The Resonant Interval, Dialogue 18 (18 Mar 2021), 2:25:18
Reduced to a job title, the magazine now standing for Sanderson's institutional position in a story about his frustrations
The magazine has contracted into a job description, invoked to explain why Sanderson kept believing he had agreements he did not have — an editor's standing being the thing that made him useful and the thing that failed him.
"As the head of the Antigonish Review, you know, that was his role."Bob Dobbs, The Resonant Interval, Dialogue 57 (29 Sep 2022), 16:38
Connections
Sanderson ran it out of St Francis Xavier in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and used it to popularize McLuhan.
One of the Nova Scotia institutions through which McLuhan's reception ran east of Toronto.
A friend's magazine, visited annually from Toronto and used as a platform for his work.