The Temiskaming Speaker

The Temiskaming Speaker is a local newspaper serving Temiskaming Shores, a city in the Timiskaming District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada.^[1][2][3]

History

The Temiskaming Speaker was founded by E. F. and A. E. Stephenson, a father-and-son duo, as the New Liskeard Speaker in 1906.^[4][5] They published the newspaper weekly until 1938, when C. E. Bond purchased it.^[4] Then, it was placed under the Temiskaming Printing Company and renamed to The Temiskaming Speaker.^[4] The newspaper refused to give coverage to politicians and asked them to purchase it as an advertisement in the 1930s.^[6]

In 1962, the Haileyburian and Cobalt Weekly Post were merged with the Speaker.^[4] In the 1970s, A. J. Wright took ownership and appointed Don Curry the editor.^[4]

In 2003, The Temiskaming Printing Company and Cold North Wind Inc. created a digital archive for The Temiskaming Speaker.^[7]

The Haileyburian

The Haileyburian was founded on 23 September 1904 by C.C. Far, the founder of Haileybury, as the town's first newspaper.^[8] It was initially called the Haileyburian & Temiskaming Mining Journal.^[8] The offices of the newspaper were destroyed twice in town-wide fires in Haileybury, including the Great Fire of 1922.^[8] The Haileyburian restarted printing in April 1923 from a streetcar on Broadway Street in Haileybury.^[8] The copies of the newspaper are preserved in a digital archive.^[9]

Popular culture

Novels by Mary Lawson mention The Temiskaming Speaker.^[10][11][12]