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The Magog Textile Mill, Canada’s first cotton printing

The print room of the Magog cotton mill in 1897.
The print room of the Magog cotton mill in 1897. Magog cotton mill print room · Charles Havelock Taylor (1859-1953) · Photo source · Photo licence: Public domain. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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The Magog Textile Mill in Quebec, built in 1883 on the Magog River, began printing cotton in 1884 and was the country’s only cotton-printing mill until 1899. It was the only 19th-century mill where spinning, weaving, bleaching and printing were all done at one site; as part of Dominion Textile it employed 2,300 people by 1943.

Scope & context

The mill and its significance, not the Canadian textile industry as a whole.

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