Featured Story

Created Apr 03 21
Updated Jun 21 23

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Goin' To The Country (Peter Lang)
How Dumont Influenced My Life (Phil Elsworthy)
Dumont and Moving On (Bernadine Roslyn)

Tags (Topics)

Absent Friends

Those who are no longer with us.
Camp Columbia

Summer camp for disadvantaged kids. Many of us had jobs there.
Co-ops and Communes

Where and how we were living, and the joys and struggles encountered.
Dumont Ducks

A spirited mob of socialist softball practitioners
Dumont Staff

Stories about the folks who worked at Dumont Press
Life at the Shop

Happenings in and around the shop
On The Line

The community newspaper that was the inspiration for Dumont Press Graphix
Related Publications

Newspapers and magazine produced by Dumont staff or in collaboration with the shop
Reunions

Student Politics

How and why, at the time, students were attracted to radical politics
The Chevron

The student newspaper at U of W
The Spirit Lives On

What we've been doing since Dumont
Workers' Control

Discussions on the co-operative and democratic structures of the workplace

All the Stories

Created Jun 15 21
Updated Jun 15 21

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With a few exceptions, like Tech Support stories, all the stories on the site are listed here, in the order in which they were posted.

Story TitleStoryDateStory AuthorPhotos & Such

Total: 106 Stories.

The Division of Labour Is Not InevitableAug 28 20Steve Izma 3 photos
Chapter OneAug 30 20Phil Elsworthy 1 photo
Staff meeting at DumontSep 01 20John Dufort 1 photo
A Brief History of MineSep 04 20Rosco Bell 1 photo
GarySep 25 20Harriet Kideckel 1 photo
In the BeginningOct 03 20Gary Robins
Reunion Stories - an overviewOct 03 20Harriet Kideckel
Chapter TwoOct 06 20Phil Elsworthy 1 photo
Selections from the Dumont Press Graphix 20th Anniversary gatheringOct 18 20Gary Robins 27 photos
Selections from the Dumont 40th Anniversary gatheringOct 18 20Gary Robins 18 photos
The Dumont Press Fifth Anniversary CelebrationOct 19 20Gary Robins 12 photos 1 document
Selections from the Dumont Press Graphix 10th Anniversary gatheringOct 19 20Gary Robins 20 photos 1 document
Stewart Saxe and Dianne Shulman get marriedOct 20 20Steve Izma 5 photos
The 1987 Dumont Reunion at Bruce MinesOct 20 20Gary Robins 18 photos
Life and times at the ShopOct 20 20Gary Robins 25 photos
Selected Community PublicationsOct 20 20Gary Robins 10 photos 1 document
A Proposed Framework for Worker-Controlled Printing and PublishingNov 02 20The Archivist 1 photo 1 document
Typesetters Got Rhythm Nov 06 20Rosco Bell 1 photo
a cast of charactersNov 24 20Phil Elsworthy 3 photos
Camp ColumbiaNov 24 20Phil Elsworthy 2 photos
Dumont last meetingNov 24 20Phil Elsworthy 3 photos
Career opportunities in a non-traditional co-op workplaceDec 15 20The Archivist 1 photo 1 document
How did Gabe Dumont end up in Kitchener-Waterloo?Dec 15 20The Archivist 1 photo
The Ducks of DumontDec 27 20James Allen
Dumont Press Graphix blogspotDec 29 20Phil Elsworthy
the alma materDec 29 20Phil Elsworthy 5 photos
The 1994 Dumont Reunion at Bruce MinesDec 29 20Gary Robins 23 photos
"Paste-up and More" ~ the legendary romance novel (unabridged)Dec 31 20The Archivist 1 photo 1 document
Remembering Absent Friends ~ Rod HayJan 01 21Gary Robins 8 photos
"Don't Mourn, Organize!" ~ Dumont's First Docket SheetsJan 02 21The Archivist 1 photo 1 document
Running Dog TalesJan 02 21Rosco Bell 2 photos
Video from 2000 ReunionJan 06 21John Dufort
Year 1 of Dumont Press GraphixJan 10 21Peter Lang
A Trip to DCJan 11 21Rosco Bell
Class of '86Jan 12 21
A History of Dumont Press: The Early EditionJan 12 21The Archivist 1 photo 1 document
Camp ColumbiaJan 16 21James Allen
1987 Reunion in Bruce Mines Jan 17 21Harriet Kideckel 4 photos 2 documents
Considerations in the co-operative workplaceJan 24 21The Archivist 1 photo 1 document
What goes around, comes around...Jan 25 21The Archivist 1 photo 1 document
An Autobiographical ChronologyJan 26 21Steve Izma
Selections from the Dumont Press Millennium GatheringJan 31 21Gary Robins 14 photos
Remembering times of caring and conflict 1979-80Feb 01 21Alison Stirling 1 document
My Involvememt With The Dumont CommunityFeb 10 21John Dufort
1989 Reunion in Oxbow Sask.Feb 13 21Harriet Kideckel 9 photos
1991 Reunion K-W Optimists' Club (isn't that an ironic location!)Feb 14 21Harriet Kideckel 13 photos 1 document
Remembering Absent Friends ~ Sandy CameronFeb 17 21Rosco Bell 3 photos
1994 Reunion at Bruce MinesFeb 19 21Harriet Kideckel 23 photos
Position Paper on the State of Dumont - April 1978 - by John DufortFeb 20 21John Dufort 1 document
The Chevron: Dufort Goes To Europe editionFeb 22 21John Dufort 3 photos
John Deitrich KoopMar 02 21Phil Elsworthy 4 photos
Perspectives and reflections our work at DumontMar 02 21The Archivist 1 photo 1 document
"Male Bonding" circa 1987 Mar 02 21Alison Stirling 1 photo
Collective Action ~ The Rise of the Mighty DucksMar 03 21Gary Robins 17 photos
Ideas for a Criticism and Evaluation ProcessMar 09 21The Archivist 1 photo 1 document
The World before the Ducks ~ A Kind of Pre-HistoryMar 22 21Gary Robins 16 photos
Black Thumb PressMar 22 21Steve Izma 12 photos
Printing at Dumont PressMar 22 21Steve Izma 1 photo
Growing Pains and Growing PerspectivesMar 23 21The Archivist 1 photo 1 document
The Memorial CollectiveMar 25 21Phil Elsworthy 12 photos
A Dumont Who's WhoMar 25 21The Archivist 5 photos
A meeting on a back road in Glenelg Township.Mar 27 21Douglas Miller 6 photos
A Radical StudentApr 02 21Peter Lang
The Farmhouse near MarkdaleApr 08 21Phil Elsworthy 11 photos
Joseph George SzalaiApr 21 21Wayne Bell 1 photo
New Challenges ~ The Existential Crisis of 1979May 01 21The Archivist 1 photo 3 documents
Dumont and a life’s reflectionMay 03 21David Arnault 2 photos
Essential questions, timely reflectionsMay 07 21Gary Robins 1 photo
Unfinished Works ~ The Dumont History that might have been...May 09 21The Archivist 1 photo 1 document
The Official Paperwork ~ Dumont's Incorporation Documents, 1971 to 1986May 15 21The Archivist 1 document
Making it Work ~ Operational Policies and Customer RelationsMay 16 21The Archivist 1 photo 1 document
RelationshipsMay 21 21Joe Goodman
Meeting Minutes, Fall 1986May 31 21Steve Izma 6 photos 1 document
Looking Back on the Kitchener City Hall ScandalJun 01 21Steve Izma
Recollections of KW 1967-73Jun 05 21Ian Angus
Teaching at St Jerome's High School, KitchenerJun 10 21Peter Lang
Living TogetherJun 12 21Rosco Bell
The Great Library Study-in of 1969Jun 18 21The Archivist 2 photos
Burn, doggie, burnJun 18 21The Archivist 1 photo
Student housing gets thumbs downJun 18 21The Archivist 2 photos
First ContractsJun 19 21The Archivist 1 document
The Dumont NexusJun 21 21Jim Harding
DPG Employees Association and the CNTUJun 21 21The Archivist 2 documents
IN THE LOOP: ANOTHER SCOOP OF KOOPJun 23 21James Allen 2 photos
Remembering Absent Friends - Charlotte von BezoldJun 25 21Rosco Bell 1 photo
Good Meetings Make Good MinutesJun 29 21The Archivist 1 document
Pronouns Are For EverybodyJul 01 21The Archivist 2 documents
1981 Reunion - 10th anniversaryJul 29 21Harriet Kideckel 12 photos
A Peoples' History of the PeopleJul 29 21The Archivist
Food for Thought, and then some...Aug 31 21Gary Robins 4 photos 1 document
Dumont Memories 2 By Winnie PietrykowskiSep 28 21Winnie Pietrykowski 1 photo
Dumont Memories By Winnie PietrykowskiSep 28 21Winnie Pietrykowski
Dumont Memories By Liz JanzenSep 28 21Winnie Pietrykowski 1 photo
War Measures Act revisitedFeb 16 22
Report on the closing of the Chevron in 1976Sep 28 22Steve Izma
Goin' To The CountryDec 18 22Peter Lang
296 Guelph St., 1970Jan 06 23Steve Izma 4 photos
How Dumont Influenced My LifeJan 23 23Phil Elsworthy 2 photos
Dumont and Moving On Feb 03 23Bernadine Roslyn
habitat 69 and other protestsFeb 28 23Phil Elsworthy 1 photo
It takes a Village...Apr 20 23Gary Robins
Downer & Bitchin' RevisitedMay 12 23Fred Kemp 1 photo
The Ongoing AdventureJun 29 23Jane Harding and Michael Canivet
Jim Nagel’s articles on Waterloo’s 60s radicalsJul 25 23Steve Izma 2 photos
A new addition to the ArchivesSep 29 23The Archivist 1 photo
Selections from the 2024 Dumont Press Reunion and Bocce ChallengeOct 04 24Gary Robins 29 photos