''The Recorder & Times'' is a daily newspaper published in

Brockville, Ontario 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 ...

, Canada. The paper was founded as the weekly ''Brockville Recorder'' by Chauncey Beach on January 16, 1821 and later led by William Buell, Jr. as editor and owner until 1849. The newspaper began publishing a daily edition called ''The Evening Recorder'' on November 10, 1873, also owned by the holding company Recorder Printing Co. In 1883 the ''Daily Times'', a rival paper, was founded. In 1918 the Recorder Printing Co. and the ''Daily Times'' merged, and on February 1 the first edition of the daily newspaper ''The Recorder & Times'' was issued. In 1957 the weekly edition ceased publication as the company focused on the daily edition. In 1998, the newspaper's publishers, Hunter Grant and Perry Beverley, sold the property to

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, established in 1971 in

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. That same year, Sun Media became a subsidiary of

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. Following the sale of Sun Media in 2015, ''The Recorder & Times'' came under the control of

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''The Recorder & Times'' - official website
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