CA-K936Culture & sport

B.K. Sandwell, editor of Saturday Night

B.K. Sandwell (Yousuf Karsh). B. K. Sandwell · Yousuf Karsh; Library and Archives Canada · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY 2.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.

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B.K. Sandwell was a journalist, essayist, lecturer and academic who edited Saturday Night from 1932 to 1951. He used the magazine to express English Canadian liberal ideas and defend civil liberties, and wrote extensively on literary and social questions.

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Sandwell as described in his designation.

Sources behind this record

Bernard Keble Sandwell National Historic Person ↗

Parks Canada (Directory of Federal Heritage Designations)

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