This weekly newspaper based at Oak Lake, founded in 1890, operated until 1974. The following year, its printing equipment was donated to the Manitoba Agricultural Museum where, in 1978, it was installed in a replica building of the original newspaper office.
Period
Publisher/Editor
1890-1901
John Miller Bender
1901-1902
William Murray Wheeler
1902-1907
William Cowper Harris
1907-?
Mary Young / A. T. Young
?-1910
F. A. Briscoe
1910-?
Thomas Rutherford Hogg (1861-1937)
?-1952
Arlie Emma Harrison Hogg (1895-1986)
Russell Ivan Hogg (1895-1961)1952-1954
John Ready
1954-1961
Russell Ivan Hogg (1895-1961
1961-1963
George Matheson
1963-1974
John Allan Morcombe (1945-2007)
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba Agricultural Museum (Austin, Municipality of North Norfolk)
The Story of Manitoba’s Weekly Newspapers by Major A. M. Pratt, Manitoba Weekly Newspapers Association, 1970.
Manitoba Agricultural Museum: 25 Years of Progress by Penny Ham, Manitoba Agricultural Museum, 1979, pages 140-141.
Obituary [John Allan Morcombe], Winnipeg Free Press, 6 October 2007.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 23 August 2024
