Legion Magazine has won first prize in the prestigious Canadian Cover Awards for its January/February 2012 issue.
The national awards program recognizes and celebrates the success of the magazine industry’s top selling magazine covers. Honours go to titles “with sizzling sell lines, compelling photography, clever illustrations—whatever made the consumer pick up and purchase the magazine,” notes the CCA.
Magazines Canada has announced that Legion Magazine is a finalist in two categories in the Canadian Cover Awards for 2012.
The magazine’s January/February 2012 issue celebrating the 200th anniversary of the War Of 1812 is a finalist in the category of General Interest, Arts, Lifestyle and Regional.
The cover from the Special Interest Publication (SIP) WW II: The War That Had To Be Won is nominated in the SIPs and New Magazines category. The evocative image of a Canadian soldier during the liberation of the Netherlands highlights the cover. Legion Magazine won the bronze award in this category in 2011 for its first SIP, WW I: The War That Shaped A Nation.
1. See Stunning Afghan War Photojournalism At The Canadian War Museum
Canadian photojournalist Louie Palu spent an exhaustive and truly dangerous amount of time outside-the-wire in Kandahar to capture the images that make up this exhibit. Go check out the gripping photographs produced by the award-winning Palu, Canada’s leading combat photojournalist.
When Canada declared war on Germany on Sept. 10, 1939, Canadian women were quick to voice an interest in becoming involved in the war effort. As Alice Sorby of Winnipeg so picturesquely expressed it, “In September 1939 when the thunder of war first crashed about our ears, the immediate reaction was an almost hysterical desire to do something.” (Women’s Work, May/June)
One misty morning last year, Belfast amateur aviation historian Jonny McNee was in County Donegal looking for a Second World War Spitfire crash site he
One Sunday morning, early in March 1915, Cooper Antliff of 41 St. Mark St., Montreal, took up pen and paper and wrote a three-page letter to
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