The Beacon Herald

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The Beacon Herald
TypeDaily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Postmedia
Publisher Dave Carter
Founded1923
Language English
Headquarters16 Packham Road, Stratford ON
Circulation The Beacon Herald and Marketplace combined 25,000
ISSN 0834-4892
Website www.stratfordbeaconherald.com

The Beacon Herald (Stratford Beacon-Herald) is a daily newspaper (Monday to Saturday) [1] published in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. The paper serves the area of Perth County, Ontario.

The paper was established in 1923 from the merger of two local papers, the Stratford Beacon Weekly (c.1855 and daily after 1887) and Stratford Weekly Herald (c.1863 and daily after 1887). [2]

The paper is the survivor of several other papers in Stratford:

The paper was owned by the Dingman family until it was acquired by Sun Media (Quebecor Media) in 2000 and, in turn, by Postmedia in 2015. [3]

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References

  1. "Stratford Beacon Herald". Search.informationperth.ca. Retrieved 2014-01-30.
  2. Templates in Time. "Perth County, Ontario GenWeb". Rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2014-01-30.
  3. "Sun Media to buy Stratford Beacon Herald - Business - CBC News". Cbc.ca. Retrieved 2014-01-30.