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A link to Hamilton history

Warmuseum_3 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

March 03, 2006 in Resources | | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)