Did you notice? This issue of the OwenSounder/MOSAIC is the biggest yet! We’ve added another eight pages highlighting our remarkable community. And we’ve moved the printing home, right here to Owen Sound: our friends and neighbours at Transcontinental RBW Owen Sound put these stories and images onto paper.

Established around 1907, Richardson, Bond & Wright (RBW), developed into one of the most important printing establishments in Canada. In 1918 they began selling printed forms that were made using a new development known as “Fleming’s Standardized Process,” a method of lithographing forms on a patented roll-fed press. This development was a forerunner of web-press technology, and made RBW the largest manufacturer of single blank forms in Canada. They also had the first offset press in the world to be web fed. During the Second World War, the plant was used to print Canadian ration booklets, as well as secret Allied Code books. They also printed Chinlifters to help morale.

Later, the company was acquired by Transcontinental Printing. Today they employ about 450 people and primarily print retail sales flyers and magazines. And now they print the publication you are holding!

- Maryann Thomas