The ''Cornwall Standard-Freeholder'' is a daily newspaper based in

Cornwall, Ontario Cornwall is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, situated where the provinces of Ontario and Quebec and the state of New York converge. It is the seat of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry and is Ontario's easternmost city ...

, Canada. It has been in circulation for many years, and continues to be the newspaper with the largest circulation inside the

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- Ottawa - Kingston triangle. The newspaper is owned by

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History

The ''Standard-Freeholder'' is a daily newspaper in Cornwall and the counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry. The Cornwall Standard-Freeholder is one of the oldest newspapers in Canada. The current newspaper began as two publications, the ''Freeholder'', which was founded by the first premier of

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, John Sandfield Macdonald in 1846, and the ''Standard,'' founded in 1886. The two newspapers were amalgamated in 1932 and the first issue was published on April 30 of that year. The ''Standard-Freeholder'' became a daily newspaper on April 1, 1941. It currently publishes print editions Tuesdays through Saturdays, excluding statutory holidays. A complimentary edition is printed and distributed on Thursdays for non-subscribers.

Present day

The ''Standard-Freeholder'' remains the only daily newspaper in the triangle between

Brockville Brockville, formerly Elizabethtown, is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the Thousand Islands region. Although it is the seat of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, it is politically independent of the county. It is included with Le ...

, Ottawa and Montreal to this day. In 2006, the ''Standard-Freeholder'' was nominated for the first time for a

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for a series of articles published the day after an announcement the city's oldest and most prominent employer,

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Fine Papers Inc., would be shutting down its paper mill operation for good. In November 2018, the ''Standard-Freeholder'' along with several other daily newspapers in the Postmedia chain had its Monday edition cut, bringing it down to five editions per week instead of six.

Current editorial staff

* Managing editor: Hugo Rodrigues * Staff reporters: Francis Racine, Todd Hambleton and Joshua Santos

References

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''Cornwall Standard-Freeholder''
Postmedia Network publications Mass media in Cornwall, Ontario Daily newspapers published in Ontario Publications established in 1846 1846 establishments in Canada {{Canada-newspaper-stub

History

Present day

Current editorial staff

See also

References

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