The ''Fort Saskatchewan Record'' is a once-weekly (Thursdays) free

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Fort Saskatchewan Fort Saskatchewan is a city along the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta, Canada. It is northeast of Edmonton, the provincial capital. It is part of the Edmonton census metropolitan area and one of 24 municipalities that constitute the Edmont ...

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, a city on the northeast side of the

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metropolitan area. It is the oldest paper in the city.

History

The paper began publication on April 5, 1922. H. Oxley was the first publisher.Strathern, Gloria M
Alberta newspapers, 1880-1982: an historical directory
p.129 (1988) () Owner

Jake Ootes Jake Ootes (born August 5, 1942) is a retired territorial level politician and newspaper and magazine publisher from Northwest Territories, Canada. Early life and career Ootes was born in the Schagen, Netherlands in 1942 and moved with his f ...

sold the paper to Bowes Publishing in 1983. In 1988, the Bowes chain was sold to

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. Sun, as a subsidiary of

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, continued to own the paper until 2015 when Sun Media was acquired by

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. In 2003, local paper "This Week", which Bowes had purchased in 1997, was merged into the Fort Record, and the paper started publishing twice weekly instead of only once. The paper returned to a once-weekly format in February 2009.

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fortsaskatchewanrecord.com
{{Postmedia Postmedia Network publications Fort Saskatchewan Weekly newspapers published in Alberta Newspapers established in 1922

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