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Kingston Whig-Standard
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Postmedia
PublisherRon Laurin
EditorSteve Serviss
Founded1926
Headquarters6 Cataraqui Street
Kingston, Ontario
K7L 4Z7
Circulation21,850 weekdays
24,008 Saturdays in 2011[1]
ISSN1197-4397
Websitewww.thewhig.com

The Kingston Whig-Standard is a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It is published daily, except on Sunday. It publishes a mix of community, national and international news and is currently owned by Postmedia. It has ISSN 1197-4397.[2]

The Saturday edition of The Whig features a life and entertainment section, which includes a travel section, restaurant reviews, a section for kids and colour comics.

History

The British Whig was founded in 1834 by Edward John Barker (1799–1884).[3] It merged in 1926 with the Kingston Daily Standard (founded 1908) to become the Kingston Whig-Standard. The word "Kingston" was dropped from the name in 1973, but was reinstated in the early 1990s. The present publication is Canada's oldest continuously published daily newspaper.[citation needed] (The first Canadian daily is the now defunct Montreal Daily Advertiser.[4])

See also

References

  1. ^ "Daily Newspaper Circulation Statement for the 12 Month Period Ended December 2011". Toronto: Canadian Circulations Audit Board. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
  2. ^ "The Kingston Whig-standard". worldcat.org/advancedsearch; Kingston Whig-Standard. Kingston: WorldCat The Kingston Whig-Standard. ISSN 1197-4397. OCLC 29970221. Retrieved 28 November 2011. {{cite news}}: External link in |work= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  3. ^ Press Publishing Company (1903). The Newspaper Reference Book of Canada: Embracing Facts and Data Regarding Canada and Biographical Sketches of Representative Canadian Men. pp. 322–3.
  4. ^ Hopkins, J. Castell (1898). An historical sketch of Canadian literature and journalism. Toronto: Lincott. p. 221. ISBN 0665080484.


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