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This daily newspaper first appeared in July 1898 after taking over and renaming the Daily Nor'Wester, founded five years earlier by William Fisher Luxton. In 1920, the paper merged with the Winnipeg Tribune.
Period
Editor
1898-1900
James “Jim” Hooper (1855-1923)
1901-1905
William Sanford Evans (1869-1949)
1905-1913
Mark Edgar Nichols (1873-1961)
1913-1916
?
1916-1920
Garnett Clay Porter (1866-1945)
Period
Managing Editor
c1904
F. J. Wilson
Period
Editor
1906-1916
Garnett Clay Porter (1866-1945)
Reporter/Journalist
Period
Title(s)
William Talbot Allison (1874-1941)
?
Literary Columnist
Albert Ernest Horsemah “Abbie” Coo (1885-1967)
?-?
Leonard Francis Earl (1882-1969)
1908-1920
William Horner Groves (1854-1915)
1900-?
James Albert Hand (1878-1966)
1906-?
Agricultural Columnist
Genevieve Elsie Alice Lipsett (1886-1935)
1904-1918
Florence Hamilton Randal Livesay (1875-1953)
1903-1906
John Frederick Bligh Livesay (1876-1944)
1905-1907
Frederick McGregor “Fred” Marter (1886-1954)
1913-1916
Harold Henry Moore (1877-1971)
1919-1920
James Hugh “Jim” Richardson (1894-1963)
1912-1913
Charles Lewis Shaw (1863-1911)
1905-1911
Executive
Period
Title(s)
Wilson Blue
c1904
Night City Editor
J. D. Ferguson
c1904
Military Reporter
K. H. Fessenden
c1904
Editorial Writer
William G. Foster
c1904
Editor of Weekly Telegram
Mitchell Harstone
c1904
City Editor
Ethel F. Lindsay
c1904
Society Reporter
J. W. B. McDougall
c1904
Market Reporter
William Forbes Perkins (1855-1948)
c1904
Court Reporter
Wilfrid Laurier “Fred” Roblin (1878-1952)
?-1914
Manager
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Telegram Building (70 Albert Street, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Telegram Printing Building (54 Adelaide Street, Winnipeg)
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
“The Big Blue Bugle” by Marjorie Earl in Torch on the Prairies: A Portrait of Journalism in Manitoba, 1859-1988, The Nor-Westers, 1988, pages 45-50.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 29 June 2024
