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NEWSPAPER AND PRINTERS
McDermot Avenue was the home to many newspapers and Business
serving the printing and publishing industry at the turn of
the century. It became known as "Newspaper Row"
and was an attraction to Winnipeg who often congregated outside
the offices of the Manitoba Free Press, the Winnipeg Telegram
or the Winnipeg Tribune to read the latest news posted on
the walls or shouted through megaphones broke out between
the Free Press (Liberal), the Telegram (Conservative) across
the street and the Tribune (Independent) next door, but it
was the Free Press that was the most influential, promoting
the policies of Liberal governments of the day. Of the many
daily newspapers published in the District at the turn of
the century, only the Free Press remains in print today.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
The Canadian Pacific Telegraph office, which was located
on McDermot Avenue at Main Street, had a monopoly on the Associated
Press news service that travelled through its wires from New
York at the turn of the century. The Manitoba Free Press subscribed
to the Associated Press but felt that the rates were too high;
the Winnipeg Telegram had Tribune had no wire service at all.
These Winnipeg newspapers could not convince Canadian Pacific
to reduce its rates and therefore, they joined together in
1907 to form the city's first news service which became the
Canadian Press, known by the letters CP, in 1917.
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