Chilliwack Progress

Chilliwack Progress

Published in the interest of the fertile Chilliwack Valley
September 13, 1917 Front Cover
Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Black Press Media
Publisher	1891 William Thomas (W.T) Jackman
Founded	(1891-04-16) April 16, 1891
City	Chilliwack, British Columbia
Country	Canada
ISSN	0839-2986
OCLC number	1027072966
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The Chilliwack Progress was first published on April 16, 1891. It remains the longest continuously published newspaper in British Columbia.

History

Seeing a need for a daily newspaper William Thomas (W.T) Jackman purchased a printing and newspaper press in Toronto and shipped it to Chilliwack. He set up shop at 39 Yale Road East (now 46169 Yale Road East) and published the first edition of the Chilliwack Progress on April 16, 1891. The paper stayed at that location until 1974.

The paper is now run by Black Press Media.

On March 23, 2020, it was announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Chilliwack progress was moving to one print edition a week starting March 26, 2020, as the global pandemic continues.

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• The British Columbia Historical Quarterly (1948). "Still in operation at the present time". The British Columbia Historical Quarterly. 12. Archives of British Columbia. ISSN 0706-7666. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Evans, Tristan (September 19, 2018). "The Chilliwack Progress: Heart of Our Community". Chilliwack Museum and Historical Society. Retrieved March 22, 2020. {{cite web}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Henderson, Paul (March 23, 2020). "Chilliwack Progress temporarily switching to one print edition per week". Chilliwack Progress. Chilliwack, British Columbia. ISSN 0839-2986. OCLC 1027072966. Retrieved March 23, 2020. {{cite news}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)