MADE
IN HAMILTON
19TH CENTURY
INDUSTRIAL TRAIL
SITE
7
HAMILTON SPECTATOR, 1846
This
building was constructed in 1926 to house the expanding Hamilton Spectator newspaper.
The modern printing plant was attached to the rear of the building. It still
stands at the south-west corner of Catharine and King William Streets (see sign).
The newspaper operated out of a number of downtown locations before this. Presses
rolled at this plant until 1976, when operations were moved to the company's
present Frid Street location.
While
the Hamilton Spectator is now the city's only daily newspaper, for much of its
history, the Spectator competed with a number of local newspapers with names
like the Herald, Times, Standard, and Gazette, among others.
Some of the Spectator’s current staff of over 500 workers are organized as a
Local of the Southern Ontario Newspaper Guild, now part of the Communication,
Energy and Paperworkers Union as a Local of the Graphic Communication International
Union.
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