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15-433: It was founded by Will White, with the first edition being printed on January 19, 1882. After some time under a board of directors, J.B. Whitehead purchased the majority of shares in 1903, and took full control in 1911. He ran the paper until 1937 when his son Ernest C. Whitehead took it over. The Whitehead family controlled The Brandon Sun until 1987, when it was sold to Thomson Newspapers, who owned it until 2001. The paper

30-421: A strike action . The strike ended 16 days later, when the union ratified the final offer on Tuesday, October 28. The contract was ratified by 67% of newspaper carriers, 75% of the pressmen, and 91% of the inside workers, including journalists. The recent five-year contract was negotiated, ratified, and signed in 2013, with no threat of a strike. Workers and managers negotiated directly with great success, without

45-630: A decline in circulation , dropping its total by 17% to 106,473 copies daily from 2009 to 2015. As of 2023, the Winnipeg Free Press media kit claims that 1.15 million users visit the newspaper's network of sites each month, and that in Winnipeg, 439,000 adults read the publication in print or digital format each week. Paperboy A paperboy is someone – often an older child or adolescent  – who distributes printed newspapers to homes or offices on

60-463: A prominent place in the popular memory of many countries, including the United Kingdom , United States , Canada , Australia , New Zealand , Ireland , and Japan . This is because it has long been the first paying job available to young boys. Newspaper industry lore suggests that the first paperboy, hired in 1833, was 10-year-old Barney Flaherty who was hired after seeing an advertisement in

75-694: A regular route, usually by bicycle or automobile . In Western nations during the heyday of print newspapers during the early 20th century, this was often a young person's first job, perhaps undertaken before or after school. This contrasts with the newsboy or newspaper hawker , now extremely rare in Western nations, who would sell newspapers to passersby on the street, often with very vocal promotion. They were common when multiple daily papers in every city – as many as 50 in New York City alone – competed. The paperboy occupies

90-598: Is currently owned by FP Canadian Newspapers, which also owns and operates the Winnipeg Free Press . Alumni of the Sun include Henry Champ , Haroon Siddiqui , Charles Gordon and Lubor J. Zink . This article about a Canadian newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Manitoba -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Winnipeg Free Press The Winnipeg Free Press (or WFP ; founded as

105-476: Is now available exclusively online. According to figures via Canadian Newspaper Association , the Free Press ' average weekday circulation for 2013 was 108,583, while on Saturdays it was 144,278. Because of the relatively small population of Manitoba, that meant that over 10% of the population could be receiving the paper and its advertisements. Like most Canadian daily newspapers , the Free Press has seen

120-688: The Manitoba Free Press ) is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada. It provides coverage of local, provincial, national, and international news, as well as current events in sports, business, and entertainment and various consumer-oriented features, such as homes and automobiles appear on a weekly basis. The WFP was founded in 1872, only two years after Manitoba became part of Canada, in 1870. The WFP's founding predated Winnipeg's own incorporation, in 1873. The Winnipeg Free Press has since become

135-638: The Free Press was passed on to Clifford Sifton . The organization subsequently moved to a building on McDermot Avenue, where it would remain until 1900. 1900 : The paper moved to a new address on McDermot Avenue at Albert Street. 1901: John Wesley Dafoe served as president, editor-in-chief , and editorial writer for the WFP until 1944. 1905: The newspaper moved to a four-storey building at Portage and Garry. 1913: The newspaper moved to 300 Carlton Street and would remain there for 78 years. 1920: The Free Press took its newsprint supplier before

150-662: The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council for violating the War Measures Act during World War I . The newspaper won the case, known as Fort Frances Pulp and Paper v Manitoba Free Press , as the court determined that whether the state of national emergency continued after the war was a political matter for Parliament . December 2, 1931: The paper was renamed the Winnipeg Free Press . 1991: The Free Press moved to its current location in

165-684: The Inkster Industrial Park, a CA$ 150 million plant at 1355 Mountain Avenue. December 2001: The Free Press and its sister paper, Brandon Sun , were bought from Thomson Newspapers by FP Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership. In 2008, at noon on Thanksgiving Day (Monday, October 13), about 1,000 members of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union , representing editorial, advertising, circulation, and press staff, as well as newspaper carriers , launched

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180-643: The Sun News and signing up for the job. The duties of a paperboy varied by distributor, but usually included counting and separating papers, rolling papers and inserting them in newspaper bags during inclement weather, and collecting payments from customers. The number of paperboys experienced a major decline. This is due partly to the disappearance of afternoon newspapers, whose delivery times worked better for school-aged children than did those of morning papers, which were typically delivered before 6 a.m. The numbers have also been affected by changing demographics,

195-504: The availability of news and newspapers on the Internet; employment laws (particularly the mid-20th century ban of child labour ), the decline of small towns that could be traversed by bicycle, and growing concerns for the safety of un-escorted children, all of which have led many newspapers to switch to delivery by adults. Today, they are mainly used by weekly community newspapers and free shopper papers, which still tend to be delivered in

210-494: The need of a lawyer that previous contracts had required. As of November 1, 2009, the WFP ceased publishing a regular Sunday edition. In its place, a Sunday-only tabloid called On 7 was launched, but it has since been discontinued. On March 27, 2011, the impending arrival of Metro in the Winnipeg market caused the Sunday newspaper to be retooled as a broadsheet format, Winnipeg Free Press SundayXtra . The Sunday edition

225-557: The oldest newspaper in Western Canada that is still active. November 30, 1872: The Manitoba Free Press was launched by William Fisher Luxton and John A. Kenny. Luxton bought a press in New York City and, along with Kenny, rented a shack at 555 Main Street , near the present corner of Main Street and James Avenue. 1874: The paper moved to a new building on Main Street, across from St. Mary Avenue. 1882: Control of

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