''The Record'' is the only daily (Monday–Friday)

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based in

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, Canada. It serves the Eastern Townships region of that province. It is one of the French-speaking province's last two English-language dailies; the other is the

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, which serves the anglophone community in

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. Launched on February 9, 1897, by businessman Leonard Channell and originally known as the ''Sherbrooke Daily Record'', it is one of the two last surviving English-language daily newspapers in the French-speaking province, the other being the much larger ''

''. For the past several years, ''The Record'' has been a daily

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for the

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minority in the Eastern Townships, without comprehensive coverage of national and world news. "Talk", or "Talk of the Townships", a weekly television, arts and cultural insert, appears every Friday. Periodic sections focus on individual communities and events within the Record's service area. Future Canadian

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and Conrad Black both got their starts in newspaper ownership as owner and co-owner, respectively, of the ''Sherbrooke Daily Record''. For years ''The Record ''was owned by Black's

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. In January 2006 it was purchased by

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, a partnership of Glacier Ventures International and former Hollinger executive

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Fire

In January 1999, a fire broke out in ''The Record''s offices, which were located on rue Delorme in Sherbrooke. The building and its contents, including the newspapers computers and presses, suffered heavy losses. The newspaper was temporarily moved to a location in nearby Lennoxville without its own press. A replacement press was eventually purchased and in June 2000 the newspaper moved into its current location on rue Galt Est, in Sherbrooke.

Former editors

* Leonard S. Channell, 1897–1899 * Victor E. Morrill, 1899–1909 * Harry Logie, 1909–1919 * Gordon Miller, 1919–1930 * Alfred Wood, 1930–1935 * Gordon Miller, 1935–1937 * J.K. Flaherty, ?-? * Albert Reid, ?-? * Don McMahon, ?-? * Douglas Amaron, ?-? * Gerald McDuff, ?-? * George McFarlane, ?-? * Arnold Agnew, ?-1959 * John Cranford, 1959–1963 * Hugh Doherty, 1963–1968 * Leonard Ryan, 1968–1969 * Leonard Coates, 1969–1970 * William Duff, 1970 * Paul Waters, 1971 * Ivy Weir, ee Pankovitch 1971 * C. Scott Abbott, 1971–1972 * Lewis Harris, 1972–1973 * Alex Radmanovich, 1973–1974 * Hugh Tait, 1974 * Barbara Verity, tevenson 1974–1977 * James Duff, 1977–1981 * Charles Bury, 1981–1996 * Sharon McCully, 1996-2006 * Eleanor Brown, 2006-? * Jennifer Young, ? -2009 * Michael McDevitt, (interim editor 2009) (assistant editor 2010) * Daniel Coulombe, 2010-2014 * John Edwards, 2014

References

External links

''The Record'' official site

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Fire

Former editors

See also

References

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