Chilliwack Progress

The Chilliwack Progress is a weekly newspaper in Chilliwack, British Columbia. It publishes Friday and is owned by Black Press.

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
Publisher	Tara Hiebert
Editor	Jessica Peters
Founded	April 16, 1891; 134 years ago (1891-04-16)
Language	English
City	Chilliwack, British Columbia
Country	Canada
Circulation	28,095 (as of October 2022)[1]
ISSN	0839-2986
OCLC number	1027072966
Website	theprogress.com
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History

The Chilliwack Progress was first published on April 16, 1891.^[2] It remains the longest continuously published newspaper in British Columbia. The paper is run by Black Press Media.

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.^[3] The paper stayed at that location until 1974.

In 2013, several newspapers were swapped between Black Press Media and Glacier Media which resulted in both Chilliwack community newspapers, the Chilliwack Progress and the Chilliwack Times being owned by Black Press.^[4] In December of 2016 it was announced that the Chilliwack Times would be consolidated into the Progress with the last edition of the Times published December 26, 2016.^[5]

On March 23, 2020, it was announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Chilliwack Progress was moving to one print edition per week.^[6]