On March 23, 1752, the first issue of the Halifax Gazette was printed by
John Bushell at his printshop on Grafton Street in the new town of
Halifax. This event marked the beginning of printing in Canada, and
launched the spread of print culture, a force that shaped colonial society
and subsequently the nation.

Plan now to attend the following events which will celebrate this
significant episode in Canadian history:

Saturday, 23rd March 2002

 10:30 a.m. Public Lecture -- "Print and the People in Eighteenth-Century
    Halifax"
    Dr. Patricia Fleming, FRSC, University of Toronto
    Project Director, History of the Book in Canada Project

    Akins Room, Public Archives of Nova Scotia
    6016 University Avenue, Halifax

 11:30 a.m. Reprinting of the Halifax Gazette of 23rd March 1752

    Chase Exhibition Room, Public Archives of Nova Scotia

 12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.  Refreshments

 1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.  Open House at the Dawson Printshop
    Killam Library (basement), Dalhousie University
    6225 University Avenue, Halifax


Monday, 25th March 2002

 7:00 p.m. Public Lecture -- "On Crusoe's Island: Imagining the Colonial
    Reader"
    Dr. Bill Bell, University of Edinburgh
    General Editor, History of the Book in Scotland Project

    Akins Room, Public Archives of Nova Scotia


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                           Sponsors
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           The Dawson Printshop, Dalhousie University
                    The Halifax Herald Ltd.
             History of the Book in Canada Project
                  National Library of Canada
          Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management
   School of Library and Information Studies, Faculty of Management,
                     Dalhousie University