Guelph Mercury

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Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet

Owner Torstar
Publisher J. Fred Kuntz
Editor Lynn Haddrall
Founded 1854
Headquarters Guelph, Ontario

Website: www.guelphmercury.com

The Guelph Mercury is an English language newspaper published in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It publishes a mix of community, national and international news and is owned by the Torstar Corporation. The newspaper, in many incarnations, has been a part of the community since 1854. It is one of the oldest broadsheet newspapers in Ontario.

[edit] History

The Guelph Mercury was founded in 1854 as the Guelph Advertiser and published weekly by owner George Keeling. In 1862, Toronto newspaperman James Innes took over the editorship of the Advertiser and shortly thereafter formed a partnership with John McLagan, owner of the competing weekly newspaper the Guelph Mercury. The two papers merged to form the Mercury and Advertiser.

The Mercury was expanded into a daily newspaper in 1867.

The Guelph Mercury has since had numerous owners. Innes sold his share in the newspaper in 1905 to J. Innes McIntosh, who also bought the Guelph Herald, a competing daily newspaper, in 1924. McIntosh then sold his share in 1929 to James Playfair, who sold the paper in the late 1940s to Thomson Newspapers Corporation. Thomson remained owner for half a century, until Hollinger Inc. purchased the paper in 1995. Sun Media purchased the paper in 1998 and then rsold it to Torstar Corporation.Torstar is the current owner.

[edit] Present

Today, The Guelph Mercury is published by Grand River Valley Newspapers, a division of Metroland Media Group, a subsidy of Torstar Corporation.

Both the Guelph Tribune and Guelph Mercury are owned and published by Metroland Media Group but keep separate newsrooms and operations.

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