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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1975-06-26, Page 47Watson, Andrew McNichol, Grace Cornish, Winn McLean, Cathy Melady, Amelda and Frank Reynolds, Tracey Carter, Pat Devereaux, Margaret Sharp, Doreen. Leeson, David McLean and Yvonne Krauter. CHILD'LABOUR? — The second Expositor office on John Street about 1880. The building is still there and was most -recently used by' Louis Oosterbosch. The Expositor's first home was on the third floor of the building that now houses Beckers. /111111k111110111111111111 1111111111111L al1111111111111-111111111111 -11iiai' wkilii111111111v CONGRATULATIONS On the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of SEAFORTH ' "..."rf• ?!g, ••• 44. ••,,,Z•46,,,X,•••••• •• • :NI,/ P NOTCH TOPNOTCH FEEDS LIMITED We Here at.Topnotch are proud of our association with the town during the-15 years we have been located here and of the contribution we have been able to make. to the community. rHIE 1-2URON EXPOgit0113, JUNE 26,•'0975 —5 qt;::...$:::...ftite•Ntkia**Mi!.. • .. ...... brUr• ... , • • 4 4 Serviag Seafoeth $1nce"1860 00:s or s r Its tie with town's • The Huron Expositor is, had. ebnicPteted 60 yeats...onthe: believed to have had its be- staff wh en-lie 4164 i9,Jurie •b" ginning in 1860 as "The 4' John Maloney: had operated a • Express" with C, 1,1, Coll as linotype.for mote:than fort years publisher, An. item` in. Beid.eit's ,whereite,refireti in 1,966.and Mrs. Perth Atlas " indicates that - RX;;MCFarlane, tbe•or;;fOrmdr Alexander Gampbel,', 1\1 of Rev,, had served for ,J4 James CarnpIielli a . '.Baptist',,s.y.ar$, when. stie ;pared' Id ..be minister Of„,,Login- married..in 1954. In recent years 1862 torninfitced issuing a paper she .serves on basis‘ which was then 'called "The each.: ivegk preParing' the "In Huron Ex Press" but died so.p.n "YeatsiAgotie"'"eeeluitt, after..The 1461 GOe-rteershQWefF With the exception Of a- short C. H. idull'pOlislidr of the:ninon period In Ate thirties Leo Hagan ExpresS and*„.4. W. graham, 'has been on the staff Since 1930. l'oteman in the Huron ,Express Others. of ,,..the present' "'staff office. Include: Toni Haley, 19 years; y. The Exprets• continged on an Mrs. Wm. Brown:, 412 year's; Susan irregular basis until in November White 2 years; Dave Robb Carol 1867 Penton and Colbourne- Hunt , Lynda Sydenham. Evelyn carried out a reorganization and Kennedy (Brussels); Pat Langlois introduced the Expositori ShortlY (Brussels) with A. Y. M cLean, 45 aftct George-VV, Ross and- W. F, -,years Luxton purchased the business.1 Others on staff on a part time „ was managed by Murdo ,Young-----basis include Dianne- Butt, Liz . r McLean who came to Seaforth from Cornwall and_ Ayr. • The Ross of the firm went on to ,become „Sir George W:, Ross, :Premier of Ontario, while Mr. • Luxton moved West and a few yeats later founded the Winnipeg Free Press. In December, 1870 the business ' was purchaSed by, Mr. McLean and his brOther, Alan McLean, and the name was changed to The Huron Expositor, Within two years, Alan MeLean, because of ill health, was forced to resign and the business was carried on by M. Y. M cLean who continued as editor Until his death in 1916. Mr. McLean represented HUron -and the Provincial Legislature and the House of Commons for several terms. On' the death of M. Y. McLean in 1916, Keith M. McLean, who had been associated with his father for many years, became editor. Mr. McLean continued as editor. until his death in 1948, when the management was assumed in turn by his son, Andrew Y: McLean, the third generation of the McLean family to publish the paper. A. Y. McLean, like his grandfather, is a former member of the House of Commons when he represented Huron Perth Riding: He is a past president of the Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association and of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association. , • In January of this year Mr. McLean ' s daughter, -,Susan • White, became editor while he continued as publisher. Mrs. White thus becomes the fourth generation of the McLean family to edit the paper and the first woman to hold the position. In 1969 after' more than a hundred years during which the , paper was printed from metal type, the Expositor plant• was converted to offset in which the reading , material is set by photography on strips of paper and arranged in page font's which in turn are photographed. A metal printing plate iS prepared from the negatiVe and from this the papers are printed in a central plant --in -Gozler1els:—fie -new process makes possible the Use of more picture's and presents a sharper type face. In 1972 McLean Bros. Publishers Limited purchased the. Brussels Post and this paper now is produced each week in the Seafoth plant. During these years many members of the staff hve contributed to the paper for long periods. Included among these are metnbers of the Weiland fatiilly several of whom were employed with the Expositor as also were the Pincell brothets, Joseph and Easil. The late George LoVe began his miter at The Expositor and Alex Lowry kG 5