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Authority record- CA QUA12046
- Corporate body
- n.d.
Dexter Color Canada, Ltd. was a printer based in Cornwall, ON.
- CA QUA01223
- Person
- 1896-1961
Alexander Grant Dexter was born in St. Andrews, Manitoba on February 3, 1896. Educated at the Collegiate Institute in Hamilton, Ontario, and at Brandon College, Manitoba, he joined the staff of the "Winnipeg Free Press" in 1912, and after serving in WWI from 1915-1919, he became the Ottawa Correspondent for the "Free Press" in 1923. He was the "Free Press' correspondent in London, England, for 2 years, returning to Ottawa in 1938. For some years he was Canadian correspondent for the "Manchester Guardian" and other British and American publications. He became Associate Editor of the "Free Press" in 1944, and was Executive Editor from 1946 to 1948, becoming Editor in 1948. Awarded the Cabot Medal for journalism by Columbia University in 1946, he was author of "Canada and the Building of the Post-War World," 1946, and also numerous pamphlets. He collaborated in various studies dealing with Canadian problems. He died on December 12, 1961, in Winnipeg.
- CA QUA09558
- Corporate body
- fl. 1920
Dexter Press was a printing company based in Pearl River, New York.
- CA QUA02605
- Person
- 1828-1902
Edward Hartley Dewart was born on 30 March 1828 in Ireland, the son of James and Margaret Hartley Dewart. When he was six the family immigrated to Canada. Edward was educated in the local Ontario schools of Dummer Township and at the Provincial Normal School. He taught briefly before entering the church. He was ordained into the Wesleyan Methodist ministry in 1855. The following year he married Matilda Hunt, and they apparently had three sons. For twenty-five years, from 1869 to 1894, he edited the Christian Guardian , the Methodists' weekly newspaper in Toronto. He received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the Methodist-sponsored Victoria University in 1879. He was still writing columns for the Christian Guardian up until his death.
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