The first issue of The Glenboro Gazette weekly newspaper was published on 25 August 1892. In 1923, the name changed to Western Prairie Gazette but returned to the original name in 1949. The Baldur Gazette was first published on 30 June 1898 and became the Baldur Gazette-News following its merger with the Belmont News in January 1989. In November 2003, the Glenboro Gazette and the Baldur Gazette-News were merged to form the Baldur-Glenboro Gazette.
The newspaper has been designated as an MHS Centennial Business.
Period
Publisher
1892-1893
James I. Ross
1893-1897
?
1898-1905
William Thompson Shipley (1870-1922)
1905-1912
Reuben M. West (1877-1953)
1912-1924
G. J. Oleson
1924-1949
Francis C. Beech (1880-1966)
1949-1967
Franklin Stuart “Frank” Presunka (1919-1985)
c1972
Glen H. Witherspoon
Period
Publisher
1898-1907
Sextus Ruthven Pringle Cooper (1873-1964, son of Horace David Cooper)
1907-1909
P. F. Curtis
1909
Annie Ferguson Playfair (1871-1947)
1909-1939
Frederick Stevens (1856-1939)
1939-1948
Lorne McLeod
1948-1963
Edna Bertha Scott Johnson (1908-1997)
1963-c1994
Earl Johnson
Joy Tosh Johnsonc1994-present
Mike Johnson
Travis Johnson
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Fowler Block (225 Elizabeth Street, Baldur, RM of Argyle)
“Rural paper changes hands,” Winnipeg Tribune, 1 April 1924, page 5.
“Birthdays,” Winnipeg Free Press, 6 May 1966, page 9.
The Story of Manitoba’s Weekly Newspapers by Major A. M. Pratt, Manitoba Weekly Newspapers Association, 1970.
Come Into Our Heritage: RM of Argyle, 1882-1982 by the Rural Municipality of Argyle, 1981, page 160.
Obituary [Edna Bertha Johnson], Baldur Gazette-News, 28 October 1997, page 14.
“The Gazette weathers the storm,” Baldur Gazette-News, 6 May 2021, page 7.
About Us, The Baldur-Glenboro Gazette.
Sextus Ruthven Pringle Cooper, FamilySearch.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 8 September 2024
