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Winnipeg Tribune fonds
MSS 24, PC 18
243 m of textual records and graphic materials
ca. 1930s-1980
The Winnipeg Tribune, one of western Canada's oldest newspapers,
was founded in 1890 by L.R. Richardson and D.L. McIntyre who scraped
together $7000 to take over the press and premises of the old Winnipeg
Sun. Struggling under the restraints of outdated equipment and no
telegraph service, the new paper survived and with the aid of Winnipeg's
growing population and economic boom fast became a viable alternative
to the rival Winnipeg Free Press. While primarily regarded as an
independent liberal paper covering local events and personalities,
the Tribune also reported on national and international news. After
90 years of operation, the Winnipeg Tribune ceased publication unexpectedly
in August of 1980 as a result of negotiations between competing
newspaper chains.
The collection contains the Tribune research collection (or `morgue'
files) as created by the newspaper's staff consisting of personality
files and subject folders of clippings from the 1930's to the 1980's.
Many of the subject files have been microfilmed by the university
for preservation purposes. There are approximately 2,500,000 clippings
(a few of the clippings may be from other newspaper such as the
Free Press), divided over some 11,000 different subject categories
and 60,000 personality folders. Together they provide ready-made
collections of people and events in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada,
and abroad. The collection is also well documented pictorially with
over 500,000 photographs. A typewritten alphabetical index to the
Tribune collection is available.
167 reels of microfilm (available for purchase in whole or in
part)
Donated by the Thomson Newspapers Ltd., 1981
Open to all researchers
Finding aid available
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