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Chilliwack Progress

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Chilliwack Progress
Published in the interest of the fertile Chilliwack Valley
B&W newspaper
September 13, 1917 Front Cover
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Black Press
PublisherTara Hiebert
EditorKen Goudswaard
FoundedApril 16, 1891; 133 years ago (1891-04-16)
LanguageEnglish
CityChilliwack, British Columbia
CountryCanada
Circulation28,095 (as of October 2022)[1]
ISSN0839-2986
OCLC number1027072966
Websitetheprogress.com

The Chilliwack Progress is a weekly newspaper in Chilliwack, British Columbia. It publishes Friday and is owned by Black Press.

History

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The Chilliwack Progress was first published on April 16, 1891.[2] It remains the longest continuously published newspaper in British Columbia.

Seeing a need for a daily newspaper William Thomas (W.T) Jackman purchased a printing and newspaper press in Toronto and shipped it to Chilliwack. He set up shop at 39 Yale Road East (now 46169 Yale Road East) and published the first edition of the Chilliwack Progress on April 16, 1891.[3] The paper stayed at that location until 1974.

The paper is now run by Black Press Media.

On March 23, 2020, it was announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Chilliwack Progress was moving to one print edition per week.[4]

Bibliography

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Notes

  1. ^ "2023 Black Press Media Kit" (PDF). Black Press Media. April 1, 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 19, 2023. Retrieved December 19, 2023.
  2. ^ The British Columbia Historical Quarterly 1948, p. 286.
  3. ^ Evans 2018.
  4. ^ Henderson 2020.

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