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38-681: The Chilliwack Progress was first published on April 16, 1891. 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. The paper stayed at that location until 1974. The paper

76-784: A 50% interest in Hawaii.com . In 2006, Black Press acquired the Akron Beacon Journal , the former Knight Ridder flagship in Northeast Ohio, for $ 165 million. Black Press sold the paper in April 2018 to GateHouse Media and acquired the Juneau Empire , Peninsula Clarion and Homer News in Alaska from GateHouse. In 2011, David Black was one of several newspaper industry veterans who joined as investors in

114-567: A Canadian online classified website. The website re-branded to Used.ca in 2015. On June 27, 2007, Black Press announced a $ 405 million takeover offer for Osprey Media , putting it in competition with Quebecor Media for Osprey's assets. Quebecor put in a higher bid and won ownership of Osprey. As of 2008 it owned about 150 newspapers. In July 2010, Black Press acquired the Red Deer Express from Great West Newspapers, LP. The company acquired two other Central Alberta publications,

152-731: A combined circulation of 1,295,243. The number of titles include 70 in British Columbia , 11 in Alberta , two in Northwest Territories and one in Yukon . In 1969, Alan Black and Clive Stangoe acquired the Williams Lake Tribune of Williams Lake, BC . The weekly newspaper had previously been owned by Northwest Publications, where Alan Black worked as a manager. After the company dissolved, he acquired

190-1038: A daily newspaper near Seattle . It had previously been owned for 35 years by the Washington Post Company . In October 2014, Black Press purchased six newspapers from Stephens Media , including The Daily World in Aberdeen, the Montesano Vidette , the North Coast News in Ocean Shores and the South Beach Bulletin in Westport. Black Press purchased the Honolulu Star-Bulletin in 2001. The newspaper had previously been owned by Liberty Newspapers LP, of Florida. The company planned to close

228-626: A majority stake in the company's smallest title alongside Stangoe, who worked as the paper's publisher. The two owned the paper under the name Cariboo Press Ltd. In 1975, Alan Black and Stangoe sold the Williams Lake Tribune to Alan Black's son David Black for $ 60,000. Black operated the Tribune exclusively for four years until purchasing the husband-and-wife owned Ashcroft-Cache Creek Journal in nearby Ashcroft in 1979. Black continued to purchase other newspapers over time and soon formed newspaper clusters around Victoria and Vancouver. There

266-659: A new company which would also manage Sidney Review, which had been acquired earlier. The sale brought the total number of newspapers owned by Black up to 12. In 1987, Black acquired the Salmon Arm Observer group on newspapers, which included the Chase -Shuswap Weekly , Eagle Valley News and Salmon Arm Observer. In 1992, Black acquired the 100 Mile House Free Press . In 1997, Black acquired 33 publications in western Canada from Trinity International Holdings PLC of Britain for $ 58 million. The sale included

304-477: A profitable Bay Guardian are too great to overcome." In 2020, San Francisco Media Co., including the Examiner and SF Weekly, was sold to Clint Reilly Communications. Ladysmith-Chemainus Chronicle Ladysmith , originally Oyster Harbour , is a town located on the 49th parallel north on the east coast of Vancouver Island , British Columbia , Canada. The local economy

342-549: A year after he built shipping wharves for loading coal at Oyster Harbour (now Ladysmith Harbour) from the mine at Extension , nearer Nanaimo. Dunsmuir, owner of coal mines in the Nanaimo area, needed a location to house the families of his miners. He chose to build the community at what was then known as Oyster Harbour, some 20 miles (32 km) south of his Extension mines. Many buildings were moved from Extension and Wellington by rail and by oxen. In 1900, Dunsmuir renamed

380-588: Is based on forestry, tourism, and agriculture. A hillside location adjacent to a sheltered harbour forms the natural geography of the community. As of 2021 , the population was 8,990. The area of the town was 12.04 square kilometres. Total private dwellings were 4,079. Population density was 746.5 people per square kilometre. Ladysmith is served by the coast-spanning Island Highway , the Island Rail Corridor , nearby Nanaimo Airport and BC Ferries . James Dunsmuir founded Ladysmith about 1898,

418-671: 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 per week. Notes References This article about a Canadian newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Black Press Black Press Group Ltd. (BPG) is a Canadian commercial printer and newspaper publisher founded in 1975 by David Holmes Black , who has no relation to Canadian-born media mogul Conrad Black . Based in Surrey, British Columbia , it

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456-472: Is the only secondary school in Ladysmith. The area has three elementary schools: Ladysmith Primary School (Kindergarten to Grade 3), Ladysmith Intermediate School (Grade 4 to Grade 7), and École North Oyster Elementary (Kindergarten to Grade 7). École North Oyster Elementary is a dual-track school, having both French immersion and English programs. Davis Road Elementary School (Kindergarten to Grade 7)

494-685: The Bellingham Business Journal from Sun News Inc. The 3,400-circulation Wenatchee Business Journal was traded in August 2011 to CW Media, Inc. in exchange for the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune . The Globe , The Times, and Bellingham Business Journal were are closed in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 recession in the United States . In November 2011, Olympic View Publishing Company

532-551: The Red Deer Advocate . By this time Black Press Ltd. had been established as Cariboo Press's parent company. On September 19, 2002, Torstar Corporation announced that it was investing $ 20 million to acquire a 19.35% share in Black Press. At that time Black Press published 88 newspapers and had 11 printing plants. Annual revenues at the time were $ 240 million. In 2006, Black Press acquired UsedEverywhere.com ,

570-456: The 2021 census , religious groups in Ladysmith included: The Ladysmith-Chemainus Chronicle , a weekly community paper on Vancouver Island with a circulation of 1,898, has been printed locally and was founded in 1908. It is circulated in the communities of Ladysmith and Chemainus , in central Vancouver Island. It is archived online in the Google news archive. Ladysmith Secondary School

608-596: The Kitsap Peninsula , it formed Sound Publishing in 1987 and has since operated all of its titles in Washington and Alaska . In turn, after purchasing Honolulu Star-Bulletin , the publisher passed the responsibility for maintaining its titles in Hawaii to Oahu Publications, a subsidiary formed in 2001 by BPG. As of 2022, News Media Canada reported Black Press publishes 106 editions across Canada with

646-551: The Mercer Island Reporter and Snoqualmie Valley Record; and seven bi-weeklies , the Auburn Reporter, Bellevue Reporter, Bothell/Kenmore Reporter, Covington/Maple Valley Reporter, Kent Reporter, Redmond Reporter and Renton Reporter. The King County Journal printed its last issue on Jan. 21, 2007. Forty full-time employees were laid off. Ten staffers were moved to weekly sister publications, and one

684-713: The Star-Bulletin two years prior, but a federal antitrust lawsuit was filed and a judge ordered the paper be sold instead. Black Press emerged as the new owner for $ 10,000. Also in 2001, Black Press acquired RFD Publications, which owned the 280,000 circulation MidWeek . The Honolulu Advertiser was acquired in 2010 and merged with the Star-Bulletin to create the Honolulu Star-Advertiser . In October 2014, Black Press purchased six newspapers from Stephens Media . The sale included West Hawaii Today and Hawaii Tribune-Herald , as well as

722-729: The Sylvan Lake News and Eckville Echo , in June 2011. The two weekly newspapers were owned by Barry and Darlene Hibbert. In July 2011, Black Press purchased of the Cranbrook Daily Townsma n and the Kimberley Daily Bulletin by Don Kendall. At the time the two dallies published Monday to Friday, had a combined circulation of 5,000. In 2013, Black Press and Glacier Media Inc. exchanged four community newspapers in British Columbia. That led to

760-646: The Vashon Island Beachcomber . The Tacoma Daily Index was acquired next in 1997. A year later the company purchases Friday Harbor Journal and launches the Federal Way Mirror in response to Seattle Times Co. closing the Federal Way News. In 2006, Black Press purchased nine newspapers from the family-owned Horvitz Newspapers Inc. The sale included the 41,000-circulation daily King County Journal ; two weeklies,

798-536: The Northwest Territories and two in Nunavut . In April 2023, Black Press entered a partnership with Village Media to license its custom content management system called Villager. The migration of Black Press sites will be completed in 2024. On January 15, 2024, Black Press entered CCAA bankruptcy protection and announced a sales agreement. Founder David Black resigned as president shortly after

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836-687: The Reporter Newspapers brand, including the newly created Issaquah/Sammamish Reporter and the S umner/Lake Tapps Reporter . Overall, the mostly free weeklies in King County reached about 300,000 households at the time. In October 2008, Black Press purchased the Marysville Globe , Arlington Times , the regional Express Shopper and monthly business publications the Wenatchee Business Journal and

874-518: The San Francisco Newspaper Company to buy the former Hearst flagship The San Francisco Examiner from Clarity Media Group. Media outlets initially reported the paper was purchased by Black's company Black Press, but Black only participated as a private investor and held shares in the Examiner separately from Black Press. The other owners included Todd Vogt and Pat Brown. Vogt was named president and CEO while Brown

912-717: The Whidbey Press Newspaper Group in 1987 from newspaperman Wallie Valentine Funk. The sale included the Whidbey News-Times , South Whidbey Record and Naval Air Station Whidbey Crosswind. In 1988, Black Press purchased the Port Orchard Independent , followed soon by the acquisition of the Bainbridge Island Review. In 1994, the subsidy was renamed to Sound Publishing. A year later the company acquired

950-482: The announcements. On January 16, Black Press filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy in the United States. At the time of the bankruptcy, Black Press has 144 publications, including 35 in Washington under its Sound Publishing subsidiary. In 1987, David Black sold a 21% equity stake in his company to Shaw Communications to fund the purchase of about 15 newspapers. He bought stake back in 1990. Black Press purchased

988-870: The closure of Abbotsford Times . In 2014, Black Press negotiated deals with Glacier Media Inc. to take effect in March 2015 that would exchange a dozen British Columbia newspapers that consolidated ownership of competing community papers on Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland . Black Press obtained Harbor City Star , Nanaimo Daily News , Cowichan Citize n, Parksville Oceanside Sta r, Tofino/Ucluelet Westerly News , Comox Valley Echo , Campbell River Courier , Surrey Now and Langley Advance . In August 2014, Black Press acquired Yukon News from owner Stephen Robertson. In March 2021, Black Press purchased Northern News Services Limited of Yellowknife , Northwest Territories , which publishes five newspapers in

1026-448: The month. "Unless I can find local partners, I'm not gonna do the deal," Vogt told staff. "I've got 25 days to do a deal or sell out." Vogt did sell to Oahu, which subsequently became San Francisco Media Co.'s parent company. Dennis Francis, president of Oahu Publications, became the company's new president, and in August 2014, Glenn Zuehls was named publisher. In October 2014, Zuehls announced Bay Guardian, saying "the obstacles for

1064-517: The strike, militia were dispatched to put down unrest and protect property. The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada first saw active service in the summer of 1912 when rallies by striking coal miners in the area around Nanaimo led to rioting. A company from the Seaforths was sent to garrison the area. Order was eventually restored and maintained until the unit was called back to mobilize for war in August 1914. In 2017, Ladysmith's historic First Avenue

1102-781: The town in honour of the British lifting the siege of Ladysmith in South Africa (28 February 1900) during the Second Boer War. (The original town of Ladysmith in turn took its name from Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith , known as Lady Smith, the Spanish wife of Sir Harry Smith , the British Governor of the Cape Colony and high commissioner in South Africa from 1847 to 1852. ) The Town of Ladysmith

1140-704: Was at one time called Spion Kop ("spy hill" in Afrikaans), in commemoration of the Battle of Spion Kop , a famous engagement in January 1900 in which the Boers defeated British troops during the Second Boer War. Ladysmith experienced significant unrest and violence during the Vancouver Island coal miners' strike of 1912–1914. The miners were striking because of a variety of long-standing safety concerns. During

1178-723: Was incorporated June 3, 1904. Dunsmuir thought this would be a fitting tribute at the conclusion of the Boer War (which ended in 1902). In addition to commemorating the end of the war by naming his town after Ladysmith, Dunsmuir also chose to name the streets of the community after British military personnel including: Field Marshall Lord Roberts, General John French, General Redvers Buller , General Sir Charles Warren , General Sir George White, Horatio Herbert Kitchener , Lieutenant-General Sir William Forbes Gatacre, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell , Major General Lord Methuen , and Sir William Penn Symonds . The local high school yearbook

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1216-551: Was moved to marketing staff. In June 2008, Black Press purchased The Enumclaw Courier-Herald , along with a 4-year-old sibling publication that serves the Bonney Lake/Lake Tapps area. The paper's were previously owned by the estate of Ted Natt along with John Natt, David Natt and current publisher Bill Marcum. By July 2008, Black Press owned 15 community newspapers around the Seattle area, including 12 under

1254-487: Was named chief financial officer of the newly created San Francisco Media Co. The company acquired the San Francisco Bay Guardian from Bruce Brugmann in April 2012 and SF Weekly from Voice Media Group in January 2013. In May 2014, Vogt announced plans to sell his shares of the company to Black Press' Hawaiian-subsidy Oahu Publications Inc., or to buy Black out of the company by the end of

1292-558: Was named the best street in Canada by the Canadian Institute of Planners. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Ladysmith had a population of 8,990 living in 3,926 of its 4,079 total private dwellings, a change of 5.3% from its 2016 population of 8,537. With a land area of 12.04 km (4.65 sq mi), it had a population density of 746.7/km (1,933.9/sq mi) in 2021. According to

1330-776: Was never a big plan to get big. It's just that another opportunity would come over the hill. Usually an independent would phone, wanting to retire or sell out, asking if we were interested in buying them. In June 1980, Black acquired the Lakes District News Houston Today. At some point prior he had also acquired the Smithers Interior News . In 1984, Black purchased a majority stake in three newspapers and two web printing plants on Vancouver Island . The sale included Goldstream Gazette , Ladysmith-Chemainus Chronicle and Parksville-Qualicum News-Advertiser. The papers were merged into

1368-401: Was open from 1963 until June 2014 when it was closed due to being over capacity. The Syfy original series Resident Alien is largely filmed within the town of Ladysmith. During production, many of the town's residents are employed as background performers. The town is transformed into the show's fictional setting of Patience, Colorado . Showrunner Chris Sheridan stated that production of

1406-745: Was previously owned by the publisher of Toronto Star ( Torstar , 19.35%) and Black (80.65%). In March 2024, it was announced that Carpenter Media Group had completed its acquisition of the firm, in a deal that involved Canso Investment Counsel, Ltd. Also known as Black Press Media , the company publishes in the United States through two subsidiaries, Oahu Publications in Hawaii and Sound Publishing in Alaska and Washington . It also owns Northern News Services based in Yellowknife , Northwest Territories . After acquiring three newspapers on

1444-514: Was purchased by Black Press from Brown M. Maloney. The sale included Sequim Gazette and Forks Forum . That same month Black Press acquired Peninsula Daily News and Sequim This Week from Horvitz Newspapers. In January 2013, Voice Media Group sold Seattle Weekly to Black Press. The alt-weekly ceased its print edition and became an online-only publication in February 2019. In February 2013, Black purchased The Everett Herald ,

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