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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.
-Mcdermot Avenue
"Printer's Row" looking west from Rorie Street
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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