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MARSHVILLE NEWS & PRINTERY
Words and images on paper still shape today's culture and still record tomorrow's history, even in our increasingly electronic age.
Local newspapers in the 1800s provided a form of global information and local community information.
“A leader in the creation of printing in Canada was William Lyon MacKenzie who conceived and started his newspaper in the village of Queenston. On May 18, 1824, the first issue of The Colonial Advocate and Journal ofAgriculture, Manufacture and Commerce was taken off the press and from that point on, more important than the business of making money became the purpose of saving Canada.
As its name implied, the newspaper carried agricultural advice, poems, anecdotes, classified advertising, current events and most importantly, Mackenzie's own fiery political commentary. It was to be published weekly (each Tuesday) and cost five pence a copy, or fifteen pounds sterling, currency for an annual subscription.
The circulation of the Colonial Advocate is estimated to have begun with 825 copies. *
*Mackenzie Heritage Printery: a printing museum Shauna Bream
Fast Facts
- During the period of 1850 - 1900, largely free from the government restrictions of the past, that the printers and publishers took on the role of establishing the Canadian identity. As before, many of them were personally involved in politics as well and continued to use their papers to exert their political sentiments and to push for progress and change.
- The Whitlock cylinder press in this building is circa 1898 and is on loan from the Mackenzie Printery and Newspaper Museum
For more information on the Printery http://www.mackenzieprintery.org