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The Bancroft Times is a weekly newspaper in Bancroft, Ontario, Canada,[1] founded in 1894.[2]
The Bancroft Times was founded in late 1894 by John Bremmer.[3][4] John Bremmer wrote and published about the newspaper on November 7th 1894 and then published the first edition on December 7th the same year.[3] An annual subscription for the newspaper cost $1.[3] The first offices were on Hastings Street North, Bancroft, Ontario.[3]
John Bremmer sold the company to brothers David H. Morrison and W.E. Morrison in 1897[3] and launched a rival newspaper The Bancroft Recorder.[5] W.E. Morrison left the company three years later.[3] The company's offices relocated to Bridge Street on October 1899.[3]
Harry Morton Price worked for the newspaper as an apprentice from 1905 until 1908 and bought the company on in late 1918.[3]
Harry Morton Price's stepson Stanley Russel Walker joined the company as an apprentice in 1927.[3] When he left to take part in the Second World War, the production was done by Harry Morton Price and Hilda Allerbeck (Stanley Russel Walker's sister).[3] When Stanley Russel Walker returned from the war, he became a business partner and co-owner of the newspaper with Harry Morton Price. Harry Morton Price's health forced him to retire in 1957.[3]
In 1963, Stanley Russel Walker relocated the offices to 93 Hastings Street North.[3] Stanley Russel Walker died in 1965 and his wife Eva, and their four sons, Frank, David, Dean and Roger, managed the publication.[3] Eva died in 1999 and Roger Walker left the business in 2000.[3] Frank and Dean Walker sold the business to White Pine Media in June 2018.[6] The paper's publisher is David Zilstra.[6]
References
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- ^ Willings, James (1933). Willing's Press Guide. Vol. 60. Willings Press Service (UK). p. 372.
- ^ Bonokoski, Mark (1 June 2012). "Newspapers the soul of small towns". Toronto Sun. Archived from the original on 2024-12-03. Retrieved 2024-12-19.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Henry, Luke (2003). French, Sylvia; French, Orland (eds.). North of 7 ... and Proud of It! A parade of memories from North Hastings. pp. 211–213. ISBN 978-0973266900.
- ^ Bancroft Old Home Week Committee. 1961.
- ^ Boyce, Gerald E. (1967). Historic Hastings. Ontario Intelligencer Limited (Belleville).
- ^ a b "The Bancroft Times joins White Pine Media". Haliburton Echo. 2018-06-26. Retrieved 2024-07-14.