The ''Pincher Creek Echo'' is a Canadian weekly newspaper serving the

Pincher Creek Pincher Creek is a town in southern Alberta, Canada. It is located immediately east of the Canadian Rockies, west of Lethbridge and south of Calgary. History For centuries before European settlers reached this area and inhabited it, Indigen ...

Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...

area, including the communities of Cowley, the

Piikani Indian Reserve The Piegan ( Blackfoot: ''Piikáni'') are an Algonquian-speaking people from the North American Great Plains. They were the largest of three Blackfoot-speaking groups that made up the Blackfoot Confederacy; the Siksika and Kainai were the ot ...

and

Waterton Lakes National Park Waterton Lakes National Park is a national park located in the southwest corner of Alberta, Canada. It borders Glacier National Park in Montana, United States. Waterton was the fourth Canadian national park, formed in 1895 and named after Waterto ...

. The newspaper was founded in 1900 by publisher E.T. Saunders as the ''Rocky Mountain Echo.'' The ''Echo'' is the

paper of record A newspaper of record is a major national newspaper with large newspaper circulation, circulation whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered Authority, authoritative and independent; they are thus "newspapers of record by reput ...

for Pincher Creek. After the ''Fort Macleod Gazette'', the ''Echo'' is the second oldest surviving newspaper in Alberta.

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Pincher Creek Echo
Weekly newspapers published in Alberta {{Alberta-stub

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