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The Record (Sherbrooke)
Encyclopedia
The Record is the only daily (Monday–Friday) English language
newspaper
based in Sherbrooke, Quebec
, Canada
. It serves the Eastern Townships
region of that province.
Launched on February 9, 1897, by businessman Leonard Channell and originally known as the Sherbrooke Daily Record, it is one of only two English language daily newspapers in Quebec, the other being the much larger Montreal Gazette.
For the past several years, The Record has been a daily community newspaper for the anglophone minority in the Eastern Townships, without comprehensive coverage of national and world news. No longer a member of the Canadian Press
newswire, it carries scattered national items from the Postmedia News Service and other sources.
"Talk", or "Talk of the Townships", a weekly television, arts and cultural insert, appears every Friday. Periodic sections focus on individual communities and events within the Record's service area.
Future Canadian media barons John Bassett
and Conrad Black
both got their starts in newspaper ownership as owner and co-owner, respectively, of the Sherbrooke Daily Record.
For years The Record was owned by Black's Hollinger International. In January 2006 it was purchased by Glacier Ventures International.
A replacement press was eventually purchased and in June 2000 the newspaper moved into its current location on Galt Street East, in Sherbrooke.
English language
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based in Sherbrooke, Quebec
Quebec
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, Canada
Canada
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. It serves the Eastern Townships
Eastern Townships
The Eastern Townships is a tourist region and a former administrative region in south-eastern Quebec, lying between the former seigneuries south of the Saint Lawrence River and the United States border. Its northern boundary roughly followed Logan's Line, the geologic boundary between the flat,...
region of that province.
Launched on February 9, 1897, by businessman Leonard Channell and originally known as the Sherbrooke Daily Record, it is one of only two English language daily newspapers in Quebec, the other being the much larger Montreal Gazette.
For the past several years, The Record has been a daily community newspaper for the anglophone minority in the Eastern Townships, without comprehensive coverage of national and world news. No longer a member of the Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Canadian Press Enterprises Inc. is the entity which "will take over the operations of the Canadian Press" according to a November 26, 2010 article in the Toronto Star...
newswire, it carries scattered national items from the Postmedia News Service and other sources.
"Talk", or "Talk of the Townships", a weekly television, arts and cultural insert, appears every Friday. Periodic sections focus on individual communities and events within the Record's service area.
Future Canadian media barons John Bassett
John Bassett
John White Hughes Bassett, was a Canadian publisher and media baron.Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he was the son of John Bassett , publisher of the Montreal Gazette, and Margaret Avery. Bassett attended Ashbury College and graduated from Bishop's University with a BA in 1936...
and Conrad Black
Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, OC, KCSG, PC is a Canadian-born member of the British House of Lords, and a historian, columnist and publisher, who was for a time the third largest newspaper magnate in the world. Lord Black controlled Hollinger International, Inc...
both got their starts in newspaper ownership as owner and co-owner, respectively, of the Sherbrooke Daily Record.
For years The Record was owned by Black's Hollinger International. In January 2006 it was purchased by Glacier Ventures International.
Fire
In January 1999, a fire broke out in the Record's offices, which were located on Delorme Street in Sherbrooke. The building and its contents, including the newspapers computers and presses, suffered heavy losses. The newspaper was temporarily moved to a location in nearby Lennoxville without its own press.A replacement press was eventually purchased and in June 2000 the newspaper moved into its current location on Galt Street East, in Sherbrooke.
Former Editors
- Leonard S. Channell, 1897-1899
- Victor E. Morrill, 1899-1909
- Harry Logie, 1909-1919
- Gordon Miller, 1919-1930
- Alfred Wood, 1930-1935
- Gordon Miller, 1935-1937
- J.K. Flaherty, ?-?
- Albert Reid, ?-?
- Don McMahon, ?-?
- Douglas Amaron, ?-?
- Gerald McDuff, ?-?
- George McFarlane, ?-?
- Arnold Agnew, ?-1959
- John Cranford, 1959-1963
- Hugh Doherty, 1963-1968
- Leonard Ryan, 1968 – 1969
- Leonard Coates, 1969- 1970
- William Duff, 1970
- Paul Waters, 1971
- Ivy Weir [nee Pankovitch], 1971
- C. Scott Abbott, 1971-1972
- Lewis Harris, 1972-1973
- Alex Radmanovich, 1973-1974
- Hugh Tait, 1974
- Barbara Verity [Stevenson], 1974-1977
- James Duff, 1977-1981
- Charles Bury, 1981-1996
- Sharon McCully 1996-2006
- Eleanor Brown, 2006-?
- Jennifer Young ? - 2009
- Michael McDevitt (interim editor 2009) (assistant editor 2010)
- Sharon McCully Publisher/Managing Editor 2009 -