Star Weekly at War

My own small collection of Queen Elizabeth souvenirs, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, will be cherished as mementoes of a distant yet very constant presence in my life.

Emmett Watson was a First World War veteran and talented illustrator who created many inspirational cover images for the wartime Toronto Star Weekly magazine.

The illustrators who created these beautiful wartime covers for the Star Weekly magazine have mostly been forgotten, so it was a delightful surprise to hear from a woman whose great-aunt, Elizabeth Cutler, was a regular Star Weekly artist. Sheree Meyer of Orlando, Florida shared her memories of her talented Great-Aunt Betty. The Inside Story The […]

After reading about my love for the old Star Weekly photos, a local collector of all things vintage named Ken Hatt lent me eight original wartime issues for my reading pleasure! Here’s a peek inside. Ken Hatt of Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia is an inveterate collector who owns numerous vintage magazines, including eight Star […]

As a child, I loved to pore through the colourful, patriotic and often amusing images pasted into my mother’s wartime scrapbook. Most of them were covers of the Star Weekly magazine, published by the Toronto Star. (Note: To see ALL my covers, scroll to the bottom of the page). The scrapbook created by my mother, […]