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| History of The Red Deer Advocate |
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 The new owners expanded the operations, brought in a rotary press to replace its old flat-bed press, and launched the Advocate as Alberta's sixth daily newspaper on March 1, 1960. It had moved to twice weekly publication in 1956.
The Advocate moved from its first home on Ross Street to a nearby shop on Gaetz Avenue in 1904. In May, 1907, it moved from the small Gaetz Avenue shop into a new newspaper office on First Street South (now 49th Street). That office, much expanded, was home to the newspaper until 1972, when the Advocate moved a few blocks to a larger, new building at the corner of 47th Avenue and Ross Street. The Advocate is now in its fifth home in Red Deer. In June of 1980 we moved to their present building on Bremner Avenue.
Mr. Galbraith's hand-cranked press has long been gone, and in its place are two large offset presses. In the past few years the Red Deer Advocate has become a major press centre for newspapers throughout Central Alberta as well as papers from British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. We run two press shifts seven days a week. Technology has allowed newspapers to transmit complete pages, including full colour, to us electronically over the internet as PDF files.
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