The Kingston Whig-Standard is a newspaper in Kingston

Kingston, Ontario

Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...

, Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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. It is published daily, except on Sunday. It publishes a mix of community, national and international news and is owned by Sun Media

Sun Media

Sun Media Corporation is the owner of several widely read tabloid and broadsheet newspapers in Canada and the 49 percent owner of Sun News Network...

. It has an ISSN of 1197-4397.

The Saturday edition of The Whig features a life and entertainment section, which includes a travel section, restaurant reviews, a section for kids and colour comics.

History

The newspaper was founded in 1926 through the merger of the British Whig and the Kingston Daily Standard. The word "Kingston" was dropped from the name in 1973, but was reinstated in the early 1990s. The newspaper can trace its roots back to the pre-merger days as far as 1834 when Edward John Barker

Edward John Barker

Edward John Barker was born in England and lived in South Carolina for a time before returning to England and embarking on a career as a physician....

founded the British Whig. The present publication is Canada's oldest continuously published daily newspaper.