This weekly newspaper was established on 17 September 1891 with its first publisher serving for 53 years. Designated as an MHS Centennial Business, it merged with the Rossburn Review and Shoal Lake Star in 1984, and later the Hamiota Echo (1992) to form Crossroads This Week in January 2001.
Period
Publisher
1891-1943
Edmund James Wilson (1858-1943)
1943-1976
Thomas Arthur Wilson (1896-1977)
1976-1984
Patricia Jean Robertson (1941-?)
After 1984
The Story of Manitoba’s Weekly Newspapers by Major A. M. Pratt, Manitoba Weekly Newspapers Association, 1970.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 23 August 2024
