The Bancroft Times

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The Bancroft Times is a weekly newspaper in Bancroft, Ontario, Canada, [1] founded in 1894. [2]

History

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]

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