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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Owner | Metroland Media Group (Torstar) |
| Headquarters | 1 St. Paul St Unit 10 St. Catharines, Ontario |
| ISSN | 1186-3129 (print) 0841-632X (web) |
| Website | www |
TheWelland Tribune is a dailynewspaper that servicesWelland,Ontario and surrounding area. TheTribune was one of severalPostmedia Network newspapers purchased byTorstar in a transaction between the two companies which concluded on November 27, 2017.[1] The paper continues to be published by theMetroland Media Group subsidiary of Torstar.[2] In late May 2020, Torstar accepted an offer for the sale of all of its assets to Nordstar Capital in late May 2020, a deal expected to close by year end.[3]
The paper's roots are in several formerly competing newspapers: theFonthill Herald (established in 1854), theWelland Telegraph (established in 1863) and thePort Colborne Citizen.[4] The original owner of theHerald was John Fraser, while theTelegraph was established by the Welland Printing and Book Company. TheHerald later moved to Welland, changing its name toPeople's Press before becoming theWelland Tribune.[4]
TheTribune and theTelegraph merged in 1920, under the ownership of Louis Blake Duff, and continued publication for several years as theWelland Tribune and Telegraph.[5] Duff sold the paper to a consortium of newspaper owners fromGalt andSarnia in 1926,[6] and the new owners shortened the paper's name back toWelland Tribune. In 1929, theTribune merged with thePort Colborne Citizen, becoming theWelland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune for several years before reverting toWelland Tribune.[7]
The paper was acquired byRoy Thomson in 1943, as one of Thomson's first acquisitions outside of theNorthern Ontario region.[8] Henry Foster, the publisher of the newspaper at the time of the sale, continued to serve on the board of directors of theThomson Newspapers chain.[8]
Publication of the paper was briefly suspended by printers' strikes in 1967[9] and 1982.[10] During the 1982 action, striking employees founded theGuardian Express,[11] which continued operations as a twice-weekly community newspaper which was acquired by Baxter Publishing in 1985[11] and bySinclair Stevens in 1990.[12]
Thomson sold the paper toHollinger in 1995.[13] The paper was included in Hollinger's sales of its publishing assets toCanwest in 2000,[14] before being sold toOsprey Media in 2003.[15] The paper was included in Osprey's acquisition byQuebecor in 2007,[16] and in Quebecor's subsequent acquisition byPostmedia Network in 2014,[17] before its sale to Torstar was announced in 2017.
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