Manitoba Business: Brandon Sun (original) (raw)
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This Brandon-based daily newspaper was founded in 1881 by William James White. The first edition was printed on 19 January 1882. The paper was sold in 1987 to FP Canadian Newspapers Limited after having been owned by three generations of the Whitehead family.
Business Locations
Year(s) Address 1881-1883 ? 1883-? 12th Street between Rosser and Princess avenues, Brandon ?-c1899 ? c1899 Fleming Block, Rosser Avenue at Eighth Street, Brandon c1899-1905 ? 1905-1965 24 Tenth Street, Brandon 1965-2022 501 Rosser Avenue, Brandon 2022-? 800 Rosser Avenue, Brandon
Publishers
Period Publisher 1881-1884 William James White (1850-1940) 1884 C. H. Beaton 1884-1897 William James White (1850-1940) 1897-1900 ? 1900-1903 Joseph Alexander Osborne (1861-1948) 1903-1937 Joseph Blyth Whitehead (1865-1941) 1941-1961 Ernest Christie Whitehead (1895-1961) 1961-1987 Lewis Davidson “Lew” Whitehead (1926-1996) 1987-? ? ?-2011 Ewan Pow 2011-2016 Eric Lawson 2016-2022 Jim Mihaly
Managing Editors
Period Managing Editor ?-? Matt Goerzen
City Editors
Miscellaneous Editors
Executive Period Title(s) Howard Leslie “Krug” Crawford (1892-1959) ?-? Managing Editor Frederick George McGuinness (1921-2011) 1966-1987 Associate Editor Winnifred Eugena Scriver Moore (1910-2003) 1960-? Women's Page Editor Garth Edwin Stouffer (1929-1993) 1967-1969 News Editor 1969-1977 Associate Editor
Reporters/Journalists
Reporter/Journalist Period Title(s) Stephen Henry Champ (1937-2012) 1960-? Lorne Avery Chapple (1920-2000) 1964-? Fredrick Joseph “Fred” Cleverley (c1927-2010) ?-? Trent Gardiner Frayne (1918-2012) 1933-? Paul Alan George Grescoe (1939-2023) ?-? Roger Newman (1935-2021) 1958-1959 Reporter Kathleen Joan Moreland “Kay” Rowe (1910-1995) 1945-1980s Freelance columnist Haroon Siddiqui 1968-1978 Reporter
Photographers
Photographer Period Dirk Aberson 1976-1988 Bruce Bumstead ? Colin Corneau ? Pam Doyle 1988-1992 Boris Minkevich c1992 Keith Morison ? Desmond Murray 1989-1991 James O'Connor c1987 Ward Perrin c1989 Greg Southam 19880-?
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Brandon Sun Building (24 Tenth Street, Brandon)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Brandon Sun Building (501 Rosser Avenue, Brandon)
Sources:
“The Brandon Sun. Founded 95 years ago, The Sun grows with Brandon,”Brandon Sun, 18 January 1977, page 5.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 17 November 2023