Times-Colonist

The Times - Colonist is an English-language daily newspaper published in Victoria, the capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia. She walked out of the merger of the Victoria Daily Times, founded in 1884, and was founded in 1858 British Colonist (later the Daily Colonist ) out. Its founder was Amor De Cosmos, the second premier of British Columbia.

Today, the Times - Colonist is owned by TC Publication Limited Partnership and Glacier Media (formerly CanWest Global Communications ), the additional sheets in Alberta ( Edmonton Journal and Calgary Herald), and in Manitoba and Saskatchewan (Saskatoon Star Phoenix, Regina Leader Post ), but also the Ottawa Citizen, the Gazette of Montreal and especially the National Post control. There are also on Vancouver Iceland CH News Vancouver Iceland, the Nanaimo Daily News, the Alberni Valley Times, The Cowichan Citizen and the Comox Valley Echo, finally, the Vancouver Sun and the Vancouver Province.

The Times - Colonist offers the standard range of a local paper, for which the local focus here on one of Victoria. The circulation is 70,000 copies, with a slightly higher edition at the weekend. The newspaper is, apart from advertising leaflets, the only published daily regional newspaper in the provincial capital.

History

The importance of the newspaper is evident from the fact that four of Prime Minister issued the newspaper or initiated. Amor De Cosmos founded the British Colonist, to put his political opponents James Douglas under pressure. The first edition, then a weekly, published on 11 December 1858 consisted of four pages and was printed by means of a hand press in the Wharf Street. The publisher had recently arrived from Nova Scotia via California to Victoria. The first subscriber was an Edward Cody Johnson.

His demands were independent of Great Britain, Douglas resignation ' and to the fact that Victoria was to remain the capital of British Columbia.

1859 ventured already to three times a week, in 1860 appeared the sheet as Daily British Colonist. But De Cosmos has already sold three years later, although he had upgraded the sheet with a Hoe cylinder press, which printed a thousand copies per hour. The newspaper moved to the west side of Government Street.

In 1861 appeared a rival newspaper, the Chronicle, and the two leaves attached to each other almost to the brink of ruin. In 1862 they merged to become British Daily Colonist and Morning Chronicle (the second part of the name disappeared in 1873, the British ten years later ), and the newspaper came into the possession of David W. Higgins and TH Long.

1869 was John Robson, the editor, the second Premier. He kept strictly to the Sunday rest, and so the newspaper was published only from Tuesday to Sunday, the Monday edition accounted for - a principle which until 1983 had stock. 1873 moved the expanding newspaper in a four-story building in the Government Street (now Bedford Regency Hotel), but now they got competition from De Cosmos with his new newspaper, The Standard.

The toughest competitor but soon became the afternoon selling Victoria Daily Times, which first appeared on June 9, 1884. With the emergence of parties in 1903 it was regarded as a leaf of the Liberal Party. One of their partners was John Grant, later Mayor, Robert Beaver, at this time ex-prime minister, and the physician Dr. GL Milne. But soon controlled William Templeman from Ontario until his death in 1914 the newspaper. He acquired the former Busy Bee Saloon, and the newspaper remained there for over four decades.

In the 1890s the Colonist moved to the east side of Broad Street, between Yates and View Street. The new press is now managed 20,000 sheets per hour. In 1886 came the newspaper in the possession of WH Ellis and AG Sargison, and they in turn sold in 1892 to James Dunsmuir, the richest man in the province. He founded the Colonist Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd..

As long as his family was involved in politics, the Dunsmuirs used the newspaper to spread their political ideas, but by 1906 they sold it to Sam Matson, who rebuilt it to a conservative journal. On the other hand, he made the first time that the employee could acquire claims on pensions. After his death, his son, Jack, 1931, the newspaper, he was succeeded by a brother, Tim, 1934.

The Daily Times was meanwhile sold to the Spencer family, but their financial reserves were low. This situation stabilized only Max Bell from Calgary, who bought the paper in 1950, to the Colonist. Both newspapers were now a thing of the Victoria Press Ltd.. Back in May of the following year, the newspapers abandoned their traditional location Downtown Victoria and moved to 2631 Douglas Street, near the present site in 2621 Douglas Street. There they entered in 1972, when she repurposed the old North Ward School.

Bell held the newsrooms remain separate, even though printing and management were becoming more of a unit.

Only with the purchase by Thomson Newspapers In 1980 the Times Colonist, with a morning and an afternoon edition, according to the custom. They appeared on September 2 of the year. As of 1983 eliminated the double issue, but the newspaper now appeared again on Mondays.

Again in 1998 the Times Colonist was sold, this time to Southam Newspapers, where in 2000 CanWest Publications took over the Southam group and hence the Times Colonist.

2006 the house employed 12 full-time reporter, a columnist, two economic rapporteur, 6 photographers.

2005, the Times Colonist received an award from the Jack Webster Foundation - applicable in the province, the highest distinction in this sector - for the best coverage. However, the local coverage is not always independent of lobby groups, such as the brief dismissal of a journalist in 2005 showed.

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