The Chronicle Journal Thunder Bay ON

The Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal is the area’s only daily newspaper, reaching 60 communities across 1,200 km, with distribution covering more than 2/3 of Ontario's’ geographic area.

The name of our newspaper preserves a part of the local history going back to 1880 with the Fort William Herald and Thunder Bay Mining and Lumbering Journal. In 1886, the name was changed for a short while to The Fort William Echo, changing again a year later to The Fort William Journal and Thunder Bay Mining News. It subsequently joined in 1899 with the Fort William Times to become The Daily Times-Journal, residing at 115 N. May Street. Of note, The Daily Times-Journal in 1902 became the second newspaper in Canada to adopt the weekly payment plan for newsboy carriers. Under this new system the carrier boy functioned as “little merchants” which implies that they were not newspaper employees but in fact were junior selfemployed businessmen. (The Vancouver Province was the inaugurator of this new system).

The Daily Times-Journal was sold by majority owner Mrs. Charlotte Dow Murphy, widow of Frank Murphy, to Thomson Newspapers in September 1962.