The ''Journal Pioneer'' is a

weekly newspaper A weekly newspaper is a general-news or Current affairs (news format), current affairs publication that is issued once or twice a week in a wide variety broadsheet, magazine, and electronic publishing, digital formats. Similarly, a biweekly new ...

published in Summerside,

Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island (PEI; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the smallest province in terms of land area and population, but the most densely populated. The island has several nicknames: "Garden of the Gulf", ...

, Canada. Two men named Bernard and Bertram founded the ''Summerside Journal'', a

, in 1865. Under the leadership of A.R. Brennan, the ''Journal'' began publishing daily on September 21, 1939, in order to provide regular news of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

. After the war, the ''Journal'' cut down to twice-weekly publication, then tri-weekly in 1949 after it closed a sister paper, ''The P.E. Island Agriculturalist''. After a fire at the press plant in 1947, the ''Journal'' was printed at the presses of its rival paper, ''The Pioneer'', which had been founded in 1876 in Alberton, moving to Summerside in 1880. The papers merged into ''The Journal-Pioneer'' in 1951, and adopted a daily (weekdays) publishing schedule in October 1957. A Saturday edition was added two years later. In 1972 the Sterling Group, part of

Hollinger Inc. Hollinger Inc. was a Media of Canada, Canadian media company based in Toronto which was established by businessman Conrad Black. At one time, the company was the third-largest media empire in the world. The company went bankrupt in 2007. History ...

, bought the ''Journal-Pioneer''; it was sold to CanWest in 2000 who then sold it to

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in 2002. On April 13, 2017, Transcontinental announced that it had sold all of its newspapers in Atlantic Canada to

SaltWire Network SaltWire Network Inc. is a Canadian newspaper publishing company owned by the Dennis-Lever family of Halifax, Nova Scotia, owners of '' The Chronicle Herald''. Saltwire owns 23 daily and weekly newspapers in Atlantic Canada.

, a newly formed parent company of ''

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''. The company also owns ''

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'' in the provincial capital of

Charlottetown Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, Charlottetown was an unincorporated town until it was incorporated as a city i ...

. While the ''Journal Pioneer''s newsroom is in Summerside, its printing facilities are located in Borden-Carleton. In March 2020 Halifax based SaltWire Network stopped publishing the print edition of the Journal Pioneer citing financial challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was announced in October 2020 that in November the Journal Pioneer would be returning to print as a weekly publication.

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* {{Summerside, Prince Edward Island Daily newspapers published in Prince Edward Island Publications established in 1865 Summerside, Prince Edward Island SaltWire Network publications 1865 establishments in Canada

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