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| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Postmedia |
| Editor | Hugo Rodrigues |
| Founded | 1846 |
| Headquarters | 1150 Montreal Road Cornwall,Ontario K6H 1E2 |
| Circulation | 7,700[1] |
| ISSN | 0842-0351 |
| Website | www |
TheCornwall Standard-Freeholder is a daily newspaper based inCornwall, Ontario, Canada. It has been in circulation for many years, and continues to be the newspaper with the largest circulation inside theMontreal -Ottawa -Kingston triangle. The newspaper is owned byPostmedia.
TheStandard-Freeholder is a daily newspaper in Cornwall and the counties ofStormont,Dundas andGlengarry. The Cornwall Standard-Freeholder is one of the oldest newspapers in Canada.
The current newspaper began as two publications, theFreeholder, which was founded by the firstpremier ofOntario,John Sandfield Macdonald in 1846, and theStandard, founded in 1886.
The two newspapers were amalgamated in 1932 and the first issue was published on April 30 of that year. TheStandard-Freeholder became a daily newspaper on April 1, 1941.
It currently publishes print editions Tuesdays through Saturdays, excluding statutory holidays. A complimentary edition is printed and distributed on Thursdays for non-subscribers.
TheStandard-Freeholder remains the only daily newspaper in the triangle betweenBrockville, Ottawa and Montreal to this day. In 2006, theStandard-Freeholder was nominated for the first time for aNational Newspaper Award for a series of articles published the day after an announcement the city's oldest and most prominent employer,Domtar Fine Papers Inc., would be shutting down itspaper mill operation for good.
In November 2018, theStandard-Freeholder along with several other daily newspapers in the Postmedia chain had its Monday edition cut, bringing it down to five editions per week instead of six.
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