Oakville Beaver

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Oakville Beaver
TypeWeekly community newspaper
Owner(s)Star Metroland Media
PublisherKelly Montague
EditorKaren Miceli, Catherine O'Hara
FoundedDecember 5, 1962
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters901 Guelph Line, Burlington, ON L7R 3N8
Circulation 52,103
Website oakvillebeaver.com

The Oakville Beaver is a locally distributed community newspaper in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. It is published weekly by Metroland Media Group. The first edition of the Oakville Beaver was published on December 5, 1962 by W. (William) Kirk Simpson.

History

Timeline of predecessors [1]

Oakville Record (1907) [a 1]

Oakville Star (1880) [a 2]

Oakville RecordStar (1936)

Oakville Trafalgar Journal (1947)

Daily Journal-Record (1962) [a 3]

Oakville Beaver (1962)

Oakville Beaver (merged 1981) [2]
  1. originally the New Era (1897); sold and renamed Raymond's Record; sold and renamed Oakville Record (1907)
  2. named changed from the Oakville Express in 1880 (originally established 1854); later named the Oakville Star-Independent
  3. later the Oakville Journal Record (1974)


The Oakville Beaver has won the prestigious General Excellence Award in the top circulation Class (40,000 and over) in the Ontario Community Newspaper Association's (OCNA) Better Newspapers competition several times since 2006. In 2014, they won Best Front Page. [3]

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References

  1. "The first 100 years". Oakville Journal Record. 8 October 1980. pp. 1–2.
  2. "The OJR's last day". Oakville Journal Record. 17 July 1981. p. 8.
  3. "2014 BNC Award Winners Announced | OCNA". www.ocna.org. Archived from the original on 2015-05-25.

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