As a footnote to the story about 1946 that ran on Tuesday, I see there is a link through the Museum of Civilization to the Spectator's special Hamilton Centennial edition which we ran 60 years ago. Find it here , about midway down the page. (The link on the page
is to a 2 MG .pdf document)
The Museum's site also features a digitized collection of the Spectator's spectacular collection of wartime news coverage
Here's their description of that collection:
During the Second World War, the staff of the century-old Hamilton Spectator newspaper kept its own monumental record of the war. This collection of more than 144,000 newspaper articles, manually clipped, stamped with the date, and arranged by subject, includes news stories and editorials from newspapers, mostly Canadian, documenting every aspect of the war.
Worth a look.
Mark
The Year a City Lost its Innocence
Response by: Jonathan Daly
In 1946 Hamilton was suppose to celebrate its centennial birthday, however a gruesome murder swept the attention from a flourishing industrial centre’s time to shine. As I read the February 28th Spectator, the murder trial of Evelyn Dick really caught my attention. It intrigued me to research more into the case. It was a great shock to find out that where I used to play for hundreds of hours as a child, is where the dismembered torso of John Dick was found, by a group of children. The children who found the body thought at first it was the body of dead pig, so they went to investigate; to their surprise it was the body of a man. I was able to find a photo of the torso and I would not have even guessed as to what it was. It’s amazing to think something that brutal happened in such a pivotal year for Hamilton and took the spot light away from its festivities.
Posted by: Jonathan Daly | March 07, 2006 at 08:58 AM