The Lindsay Post
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| The Lindsay Post | |
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| Type | Twice-weekly newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | Osprey Media |
| Publisher | Darren Murphy |
| Founded | 1861 |
| Headquarters | 17 William St. S
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| Website: http://www.thepost.ca | |
The Lindsay Post is a twice-weekly, broadsheet community newspaper in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada, that was established as The Canadian Post in 1857 in Beaverton before being moved to Lindsay in 1861. It is part of Osprey Media Publishing, a division of Sun Media and Quebecor. Inc, Canada's largest newspaper publisher.
The Lindsay Post has an audited paid circulation of 4,388 on Tuesdays and 23,250 on Fridays, when it is delivered to homes free across the City of Kawartha Lakes. The current publisher is Darren Murphy and John Chambers is the managing editor. The paper changed its name from The Daily Post to The Lindsay Post in May of 2007 to reflect its change from publishing Monday to Friday to Tuesdays and Fridays.
For exactly 100 years, the newspaper operated at 15 William Street South, a historic building where the Freemasons once leased the third floor, which is complete with a tin roof. In May of 2007, the paper moved to 17 William Street South.
[edit] History
The Canadian Post, a liberal weekly, was started in Beaverton in 1857 by C.Blackett Robinson and moved to Lindsay in 1861.
According to the 1857 Canada Directory of newspapers, Lindsay had the Lindsay Advocate and the Lindsay Herald when The Canadian Post joined the two in 1863. In 1866, The Omemee Warder was moved to Lindsay to become the Victoria Warder. Peter Murray and W.M. Hale began the Lindsay Expositor in 1869. The Herald and Expositor died in infancy.
The Lindsay Advocate sold its equipment to The Post and Warder in 1876. In 1870, C.B. Robinson moved to Toronto and founded the Canadian Presbyterian. The Post was left to be run by his brother-in-law George T. Gurnett until 1873 when it was taken over by Charles D. Barr, night editor of the Toronto Globe.
Cooper sold The Warder to John Dobson and Edward Flood became editor. Sam Hughes, a Toronto high school teacher, became editor of The Warder in 1885. In time, Cooper sold out the Watchman to George Lytle, who in 1899 bought up the Warder and amalgamated the two as the Watchman Warder.
Lytle was succesed as editor by Allan Gillies who, with the help of Ford Moynes of Stratford, launched The Daily Warder in 1903. John W. Deyell then became the proprietor.
The Post was taken over by George H. Wilson and F. W. Wilson of Port Hope in 1893. On April 8, 1895, the weekly edition was supplemented by a daily edition.
In later years, F.W. Wilson continued as sole publisher of the Port Hope Evening Guide and G.H.Wilson as sole publisher of The Post.
Two new rival papers founded in 1895 were short-lived. Sam Porter of The Post staff published a Lindsay News Item for a few weeks in 1895 and a Free Press was started on May 8, 1908, but it gave up the ghost on Feb. 20, 1909.
During and after the First World War, newspaper costs became so crushing The Post and the Watchman Warder entered into an agreement by which, after Sept. 30, 1920, the former abolished their weekly and latter abolished their daily edition.
The Post continued to publish as a daily for exactly 100 years until May, 2007.
