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
