One Zero Zero     A Virtual Library of English Canadian Small Press 1945 - 2044 Timeline     Books     Authors     Presses     Resources     Search     home Presses Ryerson Press (1945-70) Toronto Lorne Pierce (1890-61) and John Robert Colombo, who was editor from 1962 through to the sale of Ryerson to McGraw-Hill in 1970 Shortly after its foundation in Toronto in 1829, the Methodist Book Room began to issue denominational materials. They were producing regular books to the trade by 1835. The name Ryerson Press was adopted in 1919 to honour minister and educator Egerton Ryerson (1803-1882). Lorne Pierce was appointed literary adviser in 1920 and as editor in 1922. Pierce's fierce devotion to finding and developing distinctly Canadian writers was initially met with some resistance by the Methodists who had hired him but eventually he prevailed. He introduced an impressive list of poets to Canadian readers, including E.J. Pratt, Raymond Knister, Earle Birney, A.J.M. Smith, Dorothy Livesay, Louis Dudek and P.K. Page. 1945        Now is Time, Earle Birney 1946        East of the City, Louis Dudek 1946        The White Centre, Patrick Anderson 1946        As Ten as Twenty, P.K. Page 1946        Poems 1939-1944, George Whalley 1947        Poems for People, Dorothy Livesay 1947        Go to Sleep World, Raymond Souster 1948        The Strait of Anian, Earle Birney 1948        The Rocking Chair and Other Poems, A.M. Klein 1949        Collected Poems of Raymond Knister, ed. by Dorothy Livesay 1950        Call My People Home, Dorothy Livesay 1951        East Coast, Elizabeth Brewster 1951        City Hall Street, Raymond Souster 1952        Trial of a City, Earle Birney 1952        The Searching Image, Louis Dudek 1954        Events and Signals, F.R. Scott 1955        Pressed on Sand, Alfred W. Purdy 1959        The Heart is Fire, Douglas Lochhead 1959        The Crafte So Longe to Lerne, Alfred W. Purdy 1960        The Brain's the Target, Milton Acorn 1960        It Is All Around, Douglas Lochhead 1962        Poetry 62, edited by Eli Mandel & Jean-Guy Pilon 1962        Under the Ice, Alden Nowlan 1962        Twelve Letters to a Small Town, James Reaney 1962        The Sea is Also a Garden, Phyllis Webb 1963        Blind Man's Holiday, R.G. Everson 1964        Poesie/Poetry 64 1964        Black and Secret Man, Eli Mandel 1964        The Colour of the Times, Raymond Souster 1968        Frames of a Story, Daphne Marlatt