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
Publisher	Tara Hiebert
Editor	Ken Goudswaard
Founded	April 16, 1891; 133 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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The Chilliwack Progress is a weekly newspaper in Chilliwack, British Columbia. It publishes Friday and is owned by Black Press.

History

The Chilliwack Progress was first published on April 16, 1891.[2] It remains the longest continuously published newspaper in British Columbia.

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.

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 per week.[4]

Bibliography

Notes

1. "2023 Black Press Media Kit" (PDF). Black Press Media. April 1, 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 19, 2023. Retrieved December 19, 2023.
2. The British Columbia Historical Quarterly 1948, p. 286.
3. Evans 2018.
4. Henderson 2020.

References

• 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.
• Evans, Tristan (September 19, 2018). "The Chilliwack Progress: Heart of Our Community". Chilliwack Museum and Historical Society. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
• 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.