Post City Magazines is an independently owned Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

-based publisher of seven magazines that are distributed monthly to an affluent readership in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area: the Bayview Post, North York Post, North Toronto Post, Village Post, Thornhill Post, Richmond Hill Post and the Midtown Post.

The magazines are delivered free of charge to houses within each publication's coverage area with a total distribution of 175,000 copies per month (or two million copies a year). Eight of the top 10 highest median income areas in Canada are covered by a Post City Magazines publication, such as The Bridle Path, Rosedale

Rosedale, Toronto

Rosedale is an affluent neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which was formerly the estate of William Botsford Jarvis, and so named by his wife, granddaughter of William Dummer Powell, for the wild roses that grew there in abundance....

, Forest Hill

Forest Hill, Toronto

Forest Hill is an affluent neighbourhood in central Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Along with Lawrence Park, Rosedale, and The Bridle Path, it is one of Toronto’s wealthiest neighbourhoods.-History:...

, York Mills

York Mills

York Mills is the name of an affluent neighbourhood around Yonge Street and York Mills Road located in the district of North York in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada....

, Moore Park

Moore Park, Toronto

Moore Park is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It lies along both sides of St. Clair Avenue East between the Vale of Avoca section of Rosedale ravine and Moore Park ravine . The northern boundary is Mount Pleasant Cemetery and the southern the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks.The...

, Lawrence Park

Lawrence Park, Toronto

Lawrence Park is one of Toronto, Canada's most affluent residential neighbourhoods, along with Rosedale, the Bridle Path, and Forest Hill. It is also one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in Canada....

, Lytton Park, Thornhill

Thornhill, Ontario

Thornhill is a community in the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada, located on the northern border of the city of Toronto. Once a municipal village, Thornhill is now a community and postal designation geographically split into two municipalities along Yonge Street, the city of...

 and Richmond Hill

Richmond Hill, Ontario

Richmond Hill is a town located in Southern Ontario, Canada in the central portion of York Region, Ontario. It is part of the Greater Toronto Area, being located about halfway between Toronto and Lake Simcoe...

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They are also available free in boxes and racks located within the neighbourhoods or by paid subscription.

Post City Magazines recently re-launched their website http://www.postcity.com/. The revamped site now features breaking local news stories for all seven of Post City’s neighbourhoods as well as features, food and theatre reviews. The site also hosts blogs by some of Toronto’s top names in food, fashion and real estate, including Susur Lee, Franco Mirabelli and Harry Stinson.

Content Of Publications

Celebrity profiles of prominent community residents anchor the magazines. They have included notable celebrities such as
Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...

, Norman Jewison

Norman Jewison

Norman Frederick Jewison, CC, O.Ont is a Canadian film director, producer, actor and founder of the Canadian Film Centre. Highlights of his directing career include In the Heat of the Night , The Thomas Crown Affair , Fiddler on the Roof , Jesus Christ Superstar , Moonstruck , The Hurricane and The...

, Karen Kain

Karen Kain

Karen Alexandria Kain, CC is a retired Canadian ballet dancer, and currently the Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Canada.-Early Training:...

, Robert J. Sawyer

Robert J. Sawyer

Robert James Sawyer is a Canadian science fiction writer. He has had 20 novels published, and his short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories, On Spec, Nature, and many anthologies. Sawyer has won over forty awards for his fiction, including the Nebula Award ,...

, Pamela Wallin

Pamela Wallin

Pamela Wallin, OC, SOM is a former Canadian television journalist and diplomat. On January 2, 2009, she was seated in the Canadian Senate, where she sits as a Conservative.-Early life and career:...

, and Neil Young

Neil Young

Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...

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Columnists include Tony Aspler (Toronto wine connoisseur and author, recently inducted into the Order of Canada

Order of Canada

The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is, within the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, the second highest honour for merit...

), Rose Reisman (one of Canada's top chefs and cookbook authors), David Suzuki

David Suzuki

David Suzuki, CC, OBC is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a Ph.D in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department of the University of British Columbia from 1963 until his retirement in 2001...

 (environmentalist, scientist and broadcaster), Joanne Kates, (food critic for the Globe and Mail) and Mark Breslin

Mark Breslin

Mark Breslin is a Canadian entrepreneur, stand-up comedian and actor best known for being the founder of Yuk Yuk's, the largest chain of comedy clubs in Canada.He made several guest appearances in the Robocop: The Series television series....

 (founder of Yuk Yuk's

Yuk Yuk's

Yuk Yuk's is a national comedy club chain in Canada, owned by former stand-up comedian Mark Breslin and established in 1977 by Breslin and Joel Axler...

 international stand-up comedy chain).

The magazines also features community news, local restaurant reviews, profiles of local heroes and notable graduates as well as lifestyle, arts and entertainment features. It also frequently contains a Kids' Post section with several parenting articles (including Yummy Mummy by Erica Ehm

Erica Ehm

Erica Ehm is best known as a pioneering video jockey at the Canadian cable television station MuchMusic...

, former Much Music video jockey).

Every September, a special edition of the Kids' Post, which is known for its comprehensive private school guide, is also distributed.

An annual "Best Of" list of the favourite people places and things that the neighbourhood has to offer is featured in each publication, with a heavy focus on offerings from the community's independent retailers.

Company history

In 1989 Toronto resident Lorne London established the company Post Newspapers Inc. and published the first edition of the Bayview Post. This was followed by The Village Post in 1991, North Toronto Post in 1993, the Thornhill Post in 1995, the Richmond Hill Post in 1997, and the North York Post in 1999.

The Midtown Post, launched in 2007, targets the same geographic area as the North Toronto

North Toronto

North Toronto was a town located in the northern part of the Old Toronto district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It occupies a geographically central location within the current boundaries of the city of Toronto. It is a relatively narrow strip, centred around Yonge Street; it extends from the CP...

, Village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

, Bayview

Bayview

-Places:Australia* Bayview, New South Wales* Bayview, Northern TerritoryCanada* Bayview, Calgary, a neighborhood in Alberta* Bayview Avenue , a road in Ontario** Bayview , a subway station located on the above roadNew Zealand...

 and North York publications, however it is distributed specifically to upscale condominium residents in those neighbourhoods.

To this day, Lorne London remains as publisher for all seven Post City Magazines publications.

The magazines have received accolades from the Globe & Mail, The Toronto Sun, The Toronto Star and Marketing Magazine.