The Archives of McCurdy Printing Co. Ltd: A Guide
Collection Number: MS-4-139Fonds-level description created and electronic version prepared by Laurena Fredette, August 2006
Collection Level Description
Title: McCurdy Printing Co. Ltd fonds
Dates: 1930-1997, bulk 1930-1978
Extent: 93 cm of textual records. - 5 photographs. – 2 maps
McCurdy Printing Co. was a Halifax printing firm operating from about 1906 to 1999.
It was established by John Archibald McCurdy and was later taken over by his son, William Hue McCurdy, who assumed the position of president. William McCurdy also established Petheric Press, one of the first small publishing companies in Nova Scotia, which specialized in Nova Scotia historical works and was active from about 1967 to 1984.
McCurdy Printing saw a variety of owners after McCurdy sold the business in the late 1970s. It was first purchased by Doug McCallum and two other entrepreneurs who sold the business again in 1988. The company was then owned by Brunswick Capital Group Ltd. and the Annapolis Basin Group before Newfoundland Capital Corporation Ltd. acquired the company in 1999. In the same year, Newfoundland Capital merged McCurdy with Atlantic Nova Print to form Print Atlantic.
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“McCurdy Acquires Tribune Press // Acquisition/Merger.”
Canadian Printer. Nov. 1995: 8. ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry. 22 August 2006 <http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTE2QkM@>.
“McCurdy’s Main Man.”
Canadian Printer. Sept. 1993: 24. ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry. 22 August 2006 <http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTE2QkM@>.
Moulton, Donalee. “Following the Tides: An Evolving Print Industry in Atlantic Canada.”
Canadian Printer. Apr. 2001: 18. ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry. 22 August 2006 <http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTE2QkM@>.
“Newfoundland Capital Corporation Acquires Printing Operations.”
Canada Newswire. 1 November 1999: 1. ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry. 22 August 2006 <http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTE2QkM@>.
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Fonds was donated by William McCurdy in three accessions. Job books were donated in 1980 and 1986 while the other records were donated in 1997.
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This fonds consists of documents related to McCurdy Printing. While the company’s job books make up the majority of the fonds, it also contains some manuscripts and miscellaneous papers relating to the publication of three books by Gwendolyn Shand and some miscellaneous photographs and maps.
Finding aid available onsite.
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Petheric Press fonds MS-4-244.
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[Identification of item], McCurdy Printing Co. Ltd. fonds, MS-4-139, Box [box number], Folder [folder number], Dalhousie University Archives and Special Collections, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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