The Casket

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The Casket
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Brace communication (Halifax)
Founded 1852
Language English
Headquarters Antigonish, Nova Scotia
Circulation 4101[1]
Official website thecaskket.ca

The Casket is a weekly paper published in Antigonish, Nova Scotia by Brace Publishing Limited, which acquired the independent newspaper in 2012. Brace is owned by Sarah Dennis who also owns the Halifax Herald and other publishing operations in Nova Scotia. The previous owners of The Casket were Casket Printing and Publishing Company.[2] It was first published on June 24, 1852 by John Boyd.[3]

Staff have included the noted cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon who worked for the paper as a youth.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "The Casket". AdAtlantic. Retrieved 04 May 2013. 
  2. ↑ "Brace Capital acquires Casket Printing & Publishing". The Casket. July 20, 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2013. 
  3. ↑ A.A. Johnson, A History of the Catholic Church in Eastern Nova Scotia, Vol. II, St. Francis Xavier University Press, Antigonish, N.S., 1971
  4. ↑ "Bruce MacKinnon". Member Profiles. AAEC. Retrieved 5 May 2013. 


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