The ''Alberni Valley Times'' was a Canadian

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published weekdays in

Port Alberni Port Alberni () is a city located on Vancouver Island in the province of British Columbia, Canada. The city lies within the Alberni Valley at the head of the Alberni Inlet, Vancouver Island's longest inlet. It is the location of the head offices o ...

, on

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until it was closed in 2015 by the

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. The paper is owned by

, which also published the ''

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'' and several

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s on the island.

History

The ''Times'' was part of

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's Sterling Newspapers chain in the 1970s, and became part of the Southam chain when Radler and

Conrad Black Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour (born 25 August 1944), is a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher, businessman, and writer. His father was businessman George Montegu Black II, who had significant holdings in Canadi ...

incorporated Southam into Hollinger Inc.; this chain was, at the time, the dominant newspaper publisher in British Columbia, and also included the ''Nanaimo Daily News'', ''Times Colonist'' and several weeklies. Along with the rest of Southam, ownership of the Vancouver Island newspapers passed to

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in 2000, then

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in 2010. Postmedia sold its Vancouver Island properties and

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weeklies to

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in 2011 for $86.5 million. In 2015, Glacier Media sold all its island papers except for the ''Times Colonist'' to Black Press.

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''Alberni Valley Times''
– Official website Port Alberni Newspapers established in 1967 Daily newspapers published in British Columbia 1967 establishments in British Columbia {{Canada-newspaper-stub

History

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