The Record (Sherbrooke)

The Record is a Canadian daily newspaper with editorial headquarters in Sherbrooke. It is the only English-language daily in addition to the much stronger circulation Montreal Gazette in the primarily French-speaking province of Quebec. The Record appears Monday through Friday in the first quarter of 2007 the circulation was 4,806 copies.

History

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

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

The declining population of the English-speaking Eastern Townships, the southeastern part of Quebec, is located in the Sherbrooke, led to alike falling circulation figures and profits. Ivan Saunders, who had acquired the newspaper in August 1968 for a short time, it sold again in the spring of 1969 to a group led by Conrad Black. By the employees 40 % was released, further, the newspaper has now received its present name shortened. 1977 Black sold the newspaper to one led by the attorney George McLaren group of businessmen, who in turn sold the newspaper in 1988, the company Quebecor, until the newspaper was bought back by Black and his partners in 1999. Since January 2006, the newspaper owned by the media companies Glacier Ventures of Vancouver.

Swell

• Sherbrooke Daily Record scrapbook site on the newspaper by the former editor in chief Hugh Doherty (English)