George Brown Introduces Machine Printing to Canada

On March 5, 1844, George Brown, a Presbyterian immigrant from Scotland by way of New York City, founded The Globe newspaper in Toronto. Soon afterwards, in August 1844, Brown installed the first cylinder press in Canada West. This printing machine could print 1,250 papers in one hour, many more than the old Washington iron hand press which could only print 200 an hour. 

Two years later George Brown "continued his role as an innovator by bringing to the the Globe Toronto's first rotary presses. The huge increase in the pace of production that resulted allowed newspaper publishers to produce dailies in place of the older tri-weeklies, semi-weeklies, and weeklies. In 1860 the Globe added a second large, double-cylinder press and new American folding machines" (Gregory S. Kealey, "Work Control, the Labour Process, and Nineteenth Century Canadian Printers," On the Job: Confronting the Labour Process in Canada, edited by Craig Heron and Robert Storey [1986] 81).