The Record

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The Record

description daily newspaper
language English
publishing company Alta Newspaper Group ( Canada )
First edition 1897
Frequency of publication Every day
Sold edition 4,049 daily (2011) copies
Web link The Record

The Record is a Canadian daily newspaper with editorial offices in Sherbrooke . It is the only English-language daily newspaper alongside the much more widely circulated Montreal Gazette in the primarily French-speaking province of Québec . The Record is published Monday through Friday; in the 1st quarter of 2007 the circulation was 4,806 copies.

history

Founding editor of the newspaper was Leonard S. Channel, who had previously launched the weekly Stanstead Observer (1883) and Compton County Chronicle (1891). The first edition appeared on February 9, 1897 under the name Sherbrooke Daily Record . Since the newspaper had neither its own building nor a typesetting system and printing press in the first year, it rented space in a local French-language newspaper in the first year.

The founding phase proved to be successful, in 1904 the newspaper had become the largest provincial English-language newspaper outside of Montreal with a circulation of 5,300 copies. In the years 1904 to 1908 the two much older local weekly newspapers Sherbrooke Gazette (1837) and Sherbrooke Examiner (1879) could be taken over and incorporated into the newspaper. Channel died in 1909 at the age of only 41, and Victor Morrill was the new editor. After he had also died in 1928, Channel's widow Winnifred Buckland briefly took over the newspaper, but sold it in 1930 to the Ontario- based publisher Alfred Wood, who was able to increase the newspaper's circulation to 10,000 copies. After Wood's death in 1935, the newspaper was for decades under the control of the Bassett family, the later newspaper barons of their time (including The Gazette ).

The declining English-speaking population of the Eastern Townships , the southeastern part of Québec where Sherbrooke is located, led to equally declining circulation numbers and profits. Ivan Saunders, who had briefly acquired the newspaper in August 1968, sold it again in the spring of 1969 to a group around Conrad Black. 40% of the workforce was laid off, and the newspaper was also given its current shortened name. In 1977 Black sold the newspaper to a group of businessmen led by attorney George McLaren, who in turn sold the newspaper to Quebecor in 1988, until the newspaper was bought back by Black and his partners in 1999. Since January 2006 the newspaper belongs to the media company Glacier Ventures International Corp from Vancouver.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alliance for Audited Media ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved March 20, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / abcas3.auditedmedia.com
  2. ↑ Audit Bureau of Circulations (English)
  3. ↑ The Hebridean Scots of the Province of Quebec ( Memento of April 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  4. ↑ Press release about the sale ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)

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