Manitoba Business: Oak Lake News

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.

Publishers/Editors

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)

Sources:

The Story of Manitoba’s Weekly Newspapers by Major A. M. Pratt, The 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: 16 February 2022