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The Standard was created by William R. Givens in 1907, when he acquired the News and Times, which had been an amalgamation of the Kingston News and Evening Times in 1903. The two men amalgamated the papers on 1 December 1926, creating the Whig-Standard. The word "Kingston" was dropped from the name in 1973, but was reinstated in the early 1990s.
The News is believed to have started in 1839, and is listed as having united with the Kingston Chronicle & Gazette to become the Chronicle and News in 1847. The earliest known proprietor was Samuel Rowland in 1851-1852, who had purchased the Chronicle and Gazette after owner James Macfarlane’s death. Samuel was a clerk for the courts in ...
The Kingston Chronicle & Gazette (historic) Kingston This Week; Kingston Whig-Standard, Canada's oldest daily newspaper, founded in 1834; The Queen's Journal; Golden Words; Internet. City of Kingston; Visit Kingston; The Kingston Local, became defunct in 2020 along with 10 other online news outlets. Kingstonist; References
The Kingston Whig-Standard. Known for. Society for International Hockey Research, International Hockey Hall of Fame. John Walter " Bill " Fitsell (July 25, 1923 – December 3, 2020) was a Canadian journalist, writer and historian. He was a columnist for The Kingston Whig-Standard from 1961 to 1993, and was the founding president of the Society ...
Sometime in 1847, the paper merged with the Kingston News to form the Chronicle and News under Samuel Rowland, which would eventually be merged with the Kingston Times to form the News and Times, which would later be rebranded the Standard and merged with the British Whig. See also. List of newspapers in Canada; References
Broadcasting on 960 AM, CKWS was owned by Allied Broadcasting, a partnership of Roy Thomson and Rupert Davies, owner of the Kingston Whig-Standard newspaper. The call letters were derived from the newspaper's name, as was common at the time. FM sister station CKWS-FM (now CFMK-FM) signed on in 1947 (originally as CKWR-FM), and CKWS-TV launched ...
The Kingston Gazette; The Kingston News-Standard; Kingston This Week; The Kingston Whig-Standard; Q. The Queen's Journal This page was ...
Career. As a journalist, Mehler Paperny has reported for Reuters, The Kingston Whig-Standard, the Edmonton Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, Maclean’s, and has been employed as a staff reporter for Global News and The Globe and Mail. [5] She received the Radio Television Digital News Association's Dan McArthur Award for her investigative ...