165 King Street
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The Parkhill Gazette
The Parkhill Gazette was first established in 1870 by Charles Herbert Mackintosh. Mackintosh leased the paper to Wallace Graham who operated it for a year. Mackintosh made an offer to Graham to buy the paper, but Graham, unsatisfied with the price, bought his own printing equipment and continued to publish under the Gazette name. Mackintosh challenged him in a legal battle, but was found to have no rights in the case, and Graham managed to win the rights to the name "The Parkhill Gazette".
The first three buildings that the Gazette occupied, which were all in different locations, burned down; the first in 1872, the second in 1885, and the third in 1887. Because of these fires, much of the early history of Parkhill and the Gazette was lost.
In 1906, after going through a series of owners and many name changes, the press was purchased by William Dawson, who was the former principal of the Parkhill Public School. It is thought that Dawson moved the newspaper business to its final location, 165 King Street. The press was changed back to the original name, the Parkhill Gazette, after being changed to names like the Parkhill Herald and the Parkhill Review in previous years.
Following Williams death in 1920, his wife Minnie Cameron Dawson took over the press, and she is remembered as one of the few women who owned and operated a weekly paper at the time. She died in 1930, and the press was sold but recovered by the family in 1932. Her remaining family continued the press, including John Dawson, Ruth Dawson-Gray, and Mary Dawson. The Dawsons sold the business in 1946 to Scottie and Pete Campbell, who in turn sold the business to Carl and Joyce Hayter in 1975.
The Hayter family operated the Parkhill Gazette until its unfortunate closure in 2021.
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Charles Herbert Mackintosh, the founder of the Gazette, was a two-term Member of Parliament for an Ottawa riding and later the Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories from 1893-1898.
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