The Record’s Jean Doucet: Challenging stereo‘types’ one line at a time

By Taylor McClure, Special to The Record – The newspaper business has changed a lot over the years.  In terms of the printing of each edition, letters used to be set one at a time in a long painstaking process to prepare the printing press. Things got easier as printing technology improved. In 1951, Doucet joined the Sherbrooke Record team as a linotypist. She had started her career working in Timmins Ontario at the Porcupine Advance, where she learned how to work with their only linotype, but then moved to Sherbrooke after meeting her husband Tom Doucet. As a linotypist, she played an essential role in getting the words on the pages. She used to type out a line of text that would then be transferred to a sheet by a linotype machine. That sheet would then be used to print the pages of the paper. See full story in the Friday, July 5 edition of The Record.