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Manitoba Business: Winnipeg Telegram
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Editors | News Editors | Reporters/Journalists |
Miscellaneous Staff | Sources
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.
Editors
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)
News Editors
Period
Editor
1906-1916
Garnett Clay Porter (1866-1945)
Reporters/Journalists
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-?
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
Miscellaneous Staff
Executive
Period
Title(s)
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)
Sources:
“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: 11 February 2023
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