Spencer: 1967 Citizen – First draft of history sure was rough

In 1967, there were 15 police forces in the National Capital Region. Hospital bed shortages made the news. A new science and technology museum was slated to open on St. Laurent Boulevard. The House of Commons planned to sit into July.
And the Ottawa Citizen could be mailed – that’s good, old-fashioned snail-mail – to your cottage if you were a subscriber leaving town in the summer.
What a rich time capsule a newspaper is ­– the traditional, unwieldy physical version,