MSS SC 77, PC 50

Title: Winnipeg Tribune Documentary fonds

Dates: 1985

Extent: 1 cm of textual records. -- 1 video cassette

Administrative History: The Winnipeg Tribune began publishing on January 28, 1890. Its editor and publisher Robert Lorne Richardson and business manager Duncan Lloyd McIntyre founded it largely in response to the closing of The Sun a few weeks earlier which left Winnipeg with only one newspaper, the Free Press, which was perceived to be politically biased. The Tribune was acquired by Southam Press of Montreal in 1920. The Winnipeg primarily concentrated on local news while also providing national and international news coverage. In 1935, its investigative reporting was instrumental in closing the Canadian-based pro-Nazi paper Deutsche Zeitung. Following World War II, the Winnipeg Tribune steadily lost subscription market share to the Free Press. In 1980 the Winnipeg Tribune was discontinued by Southam in exchange for rival Thompson newspaper chain shutting down the Ottawa Journal. The morgue files, or news-clippings research library, of the Tribune were donated to the University of Manitoba and are stored in their original order in the Archives & Special Collections.

Custodial History: The fonds was donated to the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections by Southam Press Ltd in 1980.

Scope and Content: The fonds consists of a documentary on the newspaper and its news-clippings files prepared for a video-recording in 1985. The video recording was produced by Archives & Special Collections and is located in PC 50.

Source of Supplied Title: Title based on provenance of fonds.

Restrictions: There are no restrictions on access.

Related Material: Winnipeg Tribune fonds (MSS 24, PC 18)

Finding Aid: Finding aid is currently unavailable.