Talk:Cape Breton Post

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The article needs a lot of work. The Ducheman family was in control of the paper for about 80 years. Rob Ducheman II was around when it was sold to, I'm guessing, Southam News, around the time the 255 George Street building was opened in the early 1980s? None of this seems to be in ProQuest or Newspaper.com because almost no Atlantic Canadian newspaper has its 20th century archives online. It means going to the Beaton Institute and scanning randomly the microfiche of the various Cape Breton newspapers that were around from the turn of the 20th century to the mid-1960s. The merger between The Record and the Sydney Post sometime before WWII needs to be fleshed out. I used to have access to the The Chronicle Herald archives on microfiche in Toronto, but the Toronto Reference Library took such poor care of the microfiche that the entire collection developed vinegar syndrome and is off-limits to the public. I travel too infrequently to Cape Breton to really do research at the Beaton, so others need to do it. Abebenjoe (talk) 08:56, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]