Maclean's Magazine
Maclean's Magazine is a
Canadian weekly that was founded in 1905 by
Toronto journalist/entrepreneur Lt.-Col. John Bayne Maclean. The 43-year-old trade magazine publisher purchased an advertising agency's in-house business journal — along with its 5,000-strong subscription base. The
Business Magazine, launched in October of that year, was a pocket-sized digest of articles gathered from Canadian,
US and
British periodicals. It sold 6,000 copies. Inside its bright blue cover, the fledgling monthly anointed itself, "the Cream of the World's magazines reproduced for Busy People." Its aim, Maclean wrote a year later, was not "merely to entertain but also to inspire its readers." It was later renamed
Maclean's
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