High River and the Times: An Alberta Community and Its Weekly Newspaper, 1905-1966

by Paul Voisey

Book Overview

Founded in 1905, the High River Times served a community of small town advertisers and an extensive hinterland of ranchers and farmers in southern Alberta. Under the ownership of the Charles Clark family for over 60 years, the Times established itself as the epitome of the rural weekly press in Alberta. Even Joe Clark, the future prime minister, worked for the family business. While historians rely heavily on local newspapers to write about rural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888644116
• ISBN13: 9780888644114
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 304 Pages