The Temiskaming Speaker

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The Temiskaming Speaker is a local newspaper serving Temiskaming Shores, a city in the Timiskaming District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. [1] [2] [3]

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History

The Temiskaming Speaker was founded by E. F. and A. E. Stephenson, a father-and-son duo, as the New Liskeard Speaker in 1906. [4] [5] They published the newspaper weekly until 1938, when C. E. Bond purchased it. [4] Then, it was placed under the Temiskaming Printing Company and renamed to The Temiskaming Speaker. [4] The newspaper refused to give coverage to politicians and asked them to purchase it as an advertisement in the 1930s. [6]

In 1962, the Haileyburian and Cobalt Weekly Post were merged with the Speaker. [4] In the 1970s, A. J. Wright took ownership and appointed Don Curry the editor. [4]

In 2003, The Temiskaming Printing Company and Cold North Wind Inc. created a digital archive for The Temiskaming Speaker. [7]

The Haileyburian

The Haileyburian was founded on 23 September 1904 by C.C. Far, the founder of Haileybury, as the town's first newspaper. [8] It was initially called the Haileyburian & Temiskaming Mining Journal. [8] The offices of the newspaper were destroyed twice in town-wide fires in Haileybury, including the Great Fire of 1922. [8] The Haileyburian restarted printing in April 1923 from a streetcar on Broadway Street in Haileybury. [8] The copies of the newspaper are preserved in a digital archive. [9]

Novels by Mary Lawson mention The Temiskaming Speaker. [10] [11] [12]

References

  1. Brown, R. Blake (2012-10-23). Arming and Disarming: A History of Gun Control in Canada. University of Toronto Press. p. 110. ISBN   978-1-4426-6560-6.
  2. Stern, Pamela; Hall, Peter (2015-01-26). The Proposal Economy: Neoliberal Citizenship in “Ontario’s Most Historic Town”. UBC Press. p. 201. ISBN   978-0-7748-2824-6.
  3. Telfer, A. H. (2004-05-05). Worth Travelling Miles to See: Diary of a Survey Trip to Lake Temiskaming, 1886. Dundurn. ISBN   978-1-55488-384-4.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Geneaology Publications". wmpub.ca. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  5. Lawson, Mary (2013-10-08). The Essential Mary Lawson 2-Book Bundle: Crow Lake; The Other Side of the Bridge. Knopf Canada. ISBN   978-0-345-80846-2.
  6. Warsh, Cheryl Krasnick; Malleck, Dan (2013-08-23). Consuming Modernity: Gendered Behaviour and Consumerism before the Baby Boom [32]. UBC Press. ISBN   978-0-7748-2470-5.
  7. "Temiskaming Speaker archive goes on-line". The Globe and Mail. 2003-01-09. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Speaker, Darlene Wroe, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Temiskaming (2025-03-06). "Tapping into Haileybury and Cobalt history". Penticton Herald. Retrieved 2025-03-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. Speaker, Darlene Wroe, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Temiskaming (2025-03-06). "Tapping into Haileybury and Cobalt history". The Hamilton Spectator. ISSN   1189-9417 . Retrieved 2025-03-14.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. Lawson, Mary (2013-11-12). Road Ends. Knopf Canada. ISBN   978-0-345-80810-3.
  11. Lawson, Mary (2009-02-24). The Other Side of the Bridge. Knopf Canada. p. 35. ISBN   978-0-307-37129-4.
  12. Lawson, Mary (2022-06-28). A Town Called Solace. Knopf Canada. p. 168. ISBN   978-0-7352-8129-5.