Hello Lisa:

I have always found the following three periodicals interesting for
temperance topics:

1) The Canada Temperance Advocate (1830s-1850s)
2) The Grip (1880s-1890s)
3) The Week (1880s-1890s)

All three were national journals published in Canada / British North
America. The Canada Temperance Advocate carried detailed reports of
local, national, and international (US, British, Irish) temperance
activities. The Grip was a political magazine, whose editor and
publisher, J.W. Bengough, an accomplished cartoonist, devoted great
attention to the political side of temperance, especially at the
national level. His cartoons often cleverly savaged Canada's federal
government for inaction on the prohibition question. The Week, a
"high-brow" national affairs journal, assumed a moderationist stance
and criticised prohibitory initiatives. The three periodicals should be
available on mircofilm/fiche. Interestingly, the latter two serve to
remind us that temperance, on account of its pervasiveness in Victorian
public affairs, was a regular topic of debate for political journalists
of the era.

Cheers,
Glen C. Phillips
Centre of Canadian Studies
University of Edinburgh






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