Ottawa Valley newspaper trailblazer Rosaleen Dickson was also a gem in The Hill Times’ newsroom

Rosaleen Dickson's engagement in community life reached well beyond The Shawville Equity. She managed a local hockey team, started a Brownies pack, and taught children how to square dance on horseback. Yes, you read that right.

Rosaleen Dickson, a former editor of The Shawville Equity for more than 30 years, also helped out in the early days of The Hill Times. She wrote the weekly 'MPs in the Kitchen' column, book reviews, and helped proof pages. She also volunteered with the National Press Club and was a drummer in a seniors' band. Photograph courtesy of The Shawville Equity

Opinion

BY CHARLES DICKSON, ROSS DICKSON

January 29, 2018

Our mother, Rosaleen Dickson, an editor of The Shawville Equity for more than 30 years, died last week in Ottawa at the age of 96. She and our father, David, purchased the weekly newspaper in 1953 and founded Pontiac Printshop Ltd., a printing and publishing business in rural West Quebec, w...

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