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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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