Way back when the CPR had only been around for about 75 years, some office employees at its Windsor Station headquarters worked the five weekdays ... and a half day on Saturday morning. One of these had been LC Gagnon - who clipped this article a few years later.
Can we conclude that after 5.5 days of labour ... Canadians eagerly anticipated reading about Canadian Pacific Railway presidents in Saturday Night magazine?
Back then, television broadcasting in Canada was in its infancy and the CBC was largely alone in providing an alternative to the popular and entertaining US programming. Particularly in Ontario, a number of population centres could easily pull in the tempting US channels ... given their geographical proximity or excellent over-water 'line of sight' locations. TV sets were expensive but local programs were easily brought in for free with a small 'rabbit ears' antenna on the television.
In Quebec, television viewing was a little more complex. Before separate English and French channels were established, the CBC's single Montreal broadcasting channel alternated between both languages on a set schedule. Using rabbit ears, Montrealers got snowy reception from the distant US transmitters for the Burlington and Plattsburgh channels ... on good days.
If you couldn't afford a TV, on a Saturday night you might listen to hockey games on the radio or read. The daily newspapers generally inserted their own special magazine supplements on the weekend.
In 1957, Saturday Night magazine was sold at newsstands and would be more correctly named Every Second Saturday Night magazine as it was publishing biweekly (see wiki for the whole sad story).
To sum up, it seems likely that the cover art of a passenger train posing just west of Windsor Station with a superimposed Buck Crump caught LC Gagnon's eye at a newsstand and he picked up a copy. I don't think the other articles in this edition would have held much interest for him.
