Chilliwack Progress
The Chilliwack Progress is a weekly newspaper in Chilliwack, British Columbia. It publishes Friday and is owned by Black Press.
| Published in the interest of the fertile Chilliwack Valley | |
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 September 13, 1917 Front Cover | |
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Black Press |
| Publisher | 1891 William Thomas (W.T) Jackman - 2022 Tara Hiebert |
| Editor | Paul Henderson |
| Founded | April 16, 1891 |
| City | Chilliwack, British Columbia |
| Country | Canada |
| Circulation | 28,119 (as of March 2022)[1] |
| ISSN | 0839-2986 |
| OCLC number | 1027072966 |
| Free online archives | Chilliwack Progress |
History
The Chilliwack Progress was first published on April 16, 1891.[2] It remains the longest continuously published newspaper in British Columbia.
Seeing a need for a daily newspaper William Thomas (W.T) Jackman purchased a printing and newspaper press in Toronto and shipped it to Chilliwack. He set up shop at 39 Yale Road East (now 46169 Yale Road East) and published the first edition of the Chilliwack Progress on April 16, 1891.[3] The paper stayed at that location until 1974.
The paper is now run by Black Press Media.
On March 23, 2020, it was announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Chilliwack progress was moving to one print edition a week starting March 26, 2020, as the global pandemic continues.[4]
Bibliography
Notes
- "2022 Black Press Media Kit" (PDF). Black Press Media. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
- The British Columbia Historical Quarterly 1948, p. 286.
- Evans 2018.
- Henderson 2020.
References
- The British Columbia Historical Quarterly (1948). "Still in operation at the present time". The British Columbia Historical Quarterly. Archives of British Columbia. 12. ISSN 0706-7666.
- Evans, Tristan (September 19, 2018). "The Chilliwack Progress: Heart of Our Community". Chilliwack Museum and Historical Society. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
- Henderson, Paul (March 23, 2020). "Chilliwack Progress temporarily switching to one print edition per week". Chilliwack Progress. Chilliwack, British Columbia. ISSN 0839-2986. OCLC 1027072966. Retrieved March 23, 2020.