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image no.: 6521
contact sheet: A0204
collection: Oblate Fathers' Collection
creator: L.B. Foote
title: Linotypist workers typing at their machines inside the composing room of the Canadian Publishers in the West Canada Publishers building in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
description: The employees received a salary of $4 per week. The first machine in the photo was used to type set an English paper called the Northwest Review and the Labour News; the second machine was operated by Mr. George-Henre Berube who typeset the paper La Liberte and other French manuals; the third machine was used to print the German newspaper Western Canada; and the fourth machine was used to print a Polish paper. Standing at the right is Brother Charles Sylvestre, Missionary Oblate of Mary Immaculate, a machinist. Between machines 2 and 3 is the foreman, Maurice Dumousseau, who was later with the Free Press. At the back to the right is Mr. George McNally, A. LaLonde, and Edmon LeMay (second from the right). The Canadian Publishers building was formerly the property of the Oblate Fathers and the Company Publisher the Liberta.
subject(s): EquipmentJournalismLabourMachineryNewspapersPersonalitiesWinnipeg Buildings
date: 1917c