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MACKENZIE HERITAGE PRINTING MUSEUM
The "Upper Canada Gazette" or "American Oracle", Canada's fifth newspaper, was published April 17, 1793 in Newark (Ontario's original capital, now Niagara-on-the-Lake). Thirty-one years later, editor and agitator for political reform William Lyon Mackenzie published the Colonial Advocate in nearby Queenston on May 18, 1824. For Mackenzie, publishing the paper began a career of public activism for the reformation of the government of Upper Canada which led to the ill-fated Upper Canada Rebellion at York (Toronto) in 1837. For more information visit www.mackenzieprintery.ca/about.shtml The pictures below were taken on Oct. 13, 2004. This picture shows figures in the bottom window, with a close-up included at the right.
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