Hamiota Echo in Hamiota, Manitoba

Manitoba's oldest active printer keeps shop talk lively

Charlie Venables of Hamiota, age 82, runs the eight page weekly Hamiota Echo with his wife and family. He began in printing at 12 and still works daily on a family press, publishing a paper that serves a 30 mile radius and ships copies abroad. It traces Manitoba journalism history to H. F. Middleton in 1892, linking to Winnipeg’s Nor'western.