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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Becket, J. C. (John Cunningham), 1810-1879
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Description area
Dates of existence
1810-1879
History
John C. Becket was born on May 14, 1810, in Kilwinning, Scotland.
He was a printer. In 1832, he moved to Montreal, Canada where he opened a printing shop to which he added a bookstore and a stationery store. Until 1843, Becket was a business partner with Rollo Campbell and then he became self-employed. He had the reputation of having a great mastery of printing techniques. He also trained several talented printers. He worked as a contract printer, printing the annals of the French Canadian Missionary Society and the Montreal Sunday School Union. He printed many books and several magazines such as the French Canadian Missionary Record, the Canada Miscellany, the Canada Temperance Advocate, and the Montreal Witness. He was a director of the Protestant House of Industry and Refuge in Montreal and since 1835, a member of the St. Andrews Society of Montreal, and in 1866, he became its president.
He died on September 5, 1879, in Montreal, Quebec.