Denis Cahill is a retired award winning photojournalist having spent his entire career with the St. Catharines Standard. Hired in 1965 as a staff photographer, he was appointed photo department manager and chief photographer in 1988. The Cahill family arrived from Ireland in the 1850’s and he is the third generation to be born in St. Catharines. Love of local history runs deep in the Cahill family. His father Lou Cahill was a co-founder of the Mackenzie Printery & Newspaper Museum. (1991) Denis is a member of the St. Catharines Historical Society and the Dalhousie Yacht Club. He continues to live in St. Catharines where he and wife Bridget have raised their three children.

As a partner in Howard Graphic Equipment and curator of Howard Iron Works, a privately held printing museum, Nick is a printing historian, consultant and Certified Appraiser of capital equipment. A second generation print equipment dealer and refurbisher, Nick also authors a regular column for Print Action magazine.

As a child, George grew up in a family owned print shop and enjoyed playing with every machine as his toy! His main fascination was their Linotype typesetting machine, spending many hours watching and helping in its operation. As an adult George was hired by Linotype UK to install and train the new era of computerized equipment to customers all over Europe and Africa. Upon his arrival in Canada George continued his print career joining Linotype Canada and later Heidelberg. Says George: “It has been fascinating to see the progress of the print industry during my career and nostalgic to see the same Linotype machine still in operation in our “Printery” museum today!”

Art Seto worked in the printing industry from 1981 to 2004, where he served in bindery and prepress apprenticeships, before progressing through roles as an Estimator, Production Manager, General Manager, VP/Chief Operating Officer, and print shop owner. In 2001 he completed an MBA in Information Technology Management. Since 2004 Art has been employed at Ryerson University and has taught many courses in the Graphic Communications Management program, including cost estimating, manufacturing management, human resource management, project management, binding and finishing, and currently teaches letterpress printing, and a course called The Art of the Book.” Art is the Faculty Advisor to the Ryerson Letterpress Club. At home he has C&P Pilot and Westman & Baker letterpresses.

Tim’s early influences sealed his interest in printing. In middle school, he received formal and informal training in hand typesetting and basic presswork, initially by Leo Schmitz in Saginaw Michigan, and later by Ernest Morgan, the founder of the Antioch Bookplate Company of Yellow Springs Ohio. His skills were sufficient to get him a needed job offer, facilitating his immigration to Canada in 1970 where he worked in job shops in Victoria BC for several years. Following an interesting assortment of other jobs, he took up teaching in 1991, with a degree in Multicultural and Minority Education from UBC. He has an affection for vintage processes and machinery that are becoming antiques. Tim and his wife Jane Litman relocated to Thorold in 2018 to be near family, both working to restore and improve their 1910 bungalow. Tim volunteers as well at the Habitat ReStore. He is an amateur musician on fiddle and mandolin, passionately researching lute history for a future article. Tim remains a dedicated teacher, doing some online teaching.