Three Canadian mags win big at 28th annual IRMA awards

We're late catching up to the Canadian winners last month in the 28th International Regional Magazines Association (IRMA) awards. IRMA has 43 member magazines, largely regional and tourism-oriented. The 2008 president of the association is Jim Gourlay, the publisher of Saltscapes magazine of Halifax. The Canadian winners were:

British Columbia magazine

• Gold, travel feature
  
• Silver, culture feature
• Silver, general feature
  
• Bronze, environmental feature
• Bronze, reader service
• Merit, art direction of a single article
• Merit, department
• Merit, cover
• Finalist, magazine of the year >40,000 circ.

Cottage Life magazine

• Gold, over all art direction
• Gold, department
  
• Gold, reader service
  
• Silver, public issues
• Silver, illustration
  
• Bronze, environmental feature
• Bronze, cultural feature
• Merit, general feature

Prairies North

• Silver, nature feature