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06/06/2024

The Record today: Dad’s WW2 memory has stuck with me + Can Northfield Drive support the traffic of 7,620 more apartment units

Dad’s WW2 memory has stuck with me + Can Northfield Drive support the traffic of 7,620 more apartment units

01/31/2024

Cambridge Times morning update for Wednesday, Jan. 31: Province funds third cardiac lab at St. Mary's hospital + Region cuts arts spending

Here is your morning digest, including weather and traffic in Waterloo Region, along with our top stories.

12/16/2023

‘It really does take a village’ to help with the holidays in Guelph

Joy Struthers talks about giving back in Guelph.

12/16/2023

How deadly has COVID been in 2023? Here’s what the Ontario numbers are telling us

A comparison between recent COVID-19 deaths and annual fatalities from motor vehicle collisions underscores the virus, while much less fatal than previous pandemic years, is still exacting a toll.

12/16/2023

Ontario elementary teachers vote to accept new contract with Ford government

'This agreement is proof that the legal bargaining process works when it’s allowed to unfold as intended,' ETFO President Karen Brown said in a statement.

12/16/2023

Kitchener-Waterloo's Dec. 16 forecast: Chance of showers

The daytime high is expected to reach 6 C

12/16/2023

It’s time for Canadians to get over our collective aversion to the word ‘productivity’

With a concerted, collective effort, writes Heather Scoffield and Serge Dupont, we could be poised to re-establish our standard of living as one of the best in the world.

12/16/2023

Home cooking: Loren Gabel, Canucks come up short against Americans

Kitchener winger returns home to represent nation in 3-2 loss to Americans

12/12/2023

Youth approached by 'suspicious' man offering ride in Tesla

The youth was walking on Erb Street West at Westmount Road when she was approached by a man driving a black Tesla.

12/12/2023

Serious crash Tuesday morning closes roads near New Dundee

On Tuesday morning, emergency services were called to the intersection of Trussler Road and Oxford Waterloo Road.

12/11/2023

Dr. Matthew Tenenbaum, associate medical officer of health for Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health, told the Mercury Tribune in early October he expected the expected increase in COVID-19 cases this winter to be manageable.

While wastewater testing levels are at their highest in more than a year, COVID-related hospitalizations and deaths are well below what was seen this time last year

12/09/2023

Canadians at risk of su***de can now call 988 for mental health support.

Canadians can call the Su***de Crisis Helpline any time

12/07/2023

Keep the province’s changes in place, or Guelph could lose out on more than $1 billion in investment and hundreds of new jobs.

Province's changes to Guelph's official plan earlier this year included rezoning of Crawley Road property to make way for cold storage facility

12/05/2023

A residential road in the Two Rivers neighbourhood will be closed for a week, starting Thursday.

Crews slated to install new sewer and water pipes and repave the road

12/05/2023

While sky-high interest rates, inflation and low supply continue to impact housing affordability, Ontario’s real estate industry is evolving with Phase 2 implementation of the Trust in Real Estate Services Act (TRESA).

Updated guidelines give buyers greater transparency when purchasing a home and provide sellers more options when listing

11/30/2023

Wellington County OPP officer facing sexual assault charges has died

Mike Dolderman, 52, “passed away peacefully at home on November 17, 2023, after courageously confronting an aggressive cancer”

11/28/2023

A collision involving a farm tractor hauling a manure trailer on Jones Baseline near Wellington Road 22 closed the road for a cleanup

Tractor rollover spilled manure and diesel fuel.

11/27/2023

Here is a look at some of the top headlines trending online this week at www.guelphmercury.com.

11/23/2023

The North End Harvest Market (NEHM) is looking for support for a unique holiday program for noncustodial parents and grandparents called Elves off the Shelves this year.

The North End Harvest Market program provides noncustodial parents and grandparents with gifts to give.

11/22/2023

The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) says both Lotto Max and Lotto 6/49 are offering $40 million jackpot prizes this week.

Massive Lotto Max and Lotto 6/49 jackpot prizes up for grabs

11/22/2023

The last weekend of November will be a long one for many students in Guelph and nearby areas.

What parents and students should know

11/21/2023

The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) says there will be no charges for Ontario Provincial Police officers following a Centre Wellington collision on March 22.

A driver was taken to hospital with a fractured ankle.

11/18/2023

The sport utility vehicle tops the list of Ontario’s most-stolen vehicles for 2022, released

See if your vehicle is among Ontario's most stolen

11/18/2023

Until a few days ago, no one in the Le-Bar family knew much, if anything, about their long-dead ancestor who fought for Canada in the Second World War.

‘You brought closure,’ says mom. ‘You’re the hero of the family’

11/17/2023

Certain chocolate is being pulled from shelves at some of Canada's big-name stores and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is telling people to, potentially, not consume it.

Loblaw apologizes

11/14/2023

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is working with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Health Canada to investigate an outbreak of “extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Salmonella infections” in six provinces.

Nearly half of those infected are kids

11/13/2023

The total value of the bonus prize is $2,228,990.

It's a pretty good kickoff to the weekend for a Guelph resident.

11/12/2023

Students accessing food banks increase by 220% in October

Food assistance needs have been increasing across all demographics in the region this year

11/10/2023

Cambridge Memorial Hospital (CMH) has declared an outbreak COVID-19 in the Medicine B unit.

Two patients test positive, staff undergo daily antigen testing, enhanced safety measures implemented

11/09/2023

A 42-year-old Cambridge man is facing a laundry list of charges that began during a traffic stop for another vehicle.

A 42-year-old Cambridge man is facing multiple charges after a traffic stop for speeding resulted in the discovery of drugs and a struggle with the police officer

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Cambridge Times

Welcome to CambridgeTimes.ca, the city of Cambridge community website of Metroland West Media, a division of Metroland Media Group Ltd., a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation.

The Cambridge Times publishes 43,324 copies of the newspaper on Tuesday and Thursday of each week, with additional rural distribution on Thursdays for a total of 48,499.

Our circulation is audited regularly to ensure we reach residents’ doors.

The Cambridge Times serves a city of more than 132,000 residents and is part of one of the fastest growing regions in the country.

In the early decades of the 20th century, this region saw the development of several newspaper chains in which an individual or a syndicate owned a number of independent newspapers.

This trend was reflected in the work of Walter Baulk, who has been described as an astute local newspaperman and a keen advertising salesman. His idea was to develop a chain of local weekly newspapers that would continue to be edited locally but which would all be produced at a centrally located printing plant.

Mr. Baulk was persuaded by the Preston Board of Trade to locate that plant in Preston, and in 1947 a limited company known as Baulk Publishers Ltd. was formed. In 1949 it became a public company.

It was at this time that a group of local businessmen became interested in the development of a local weekly that would be printed on Baulk's presses.

That newspaper was the Preston Times, which rolled off the line for the first time on Oct. 28, 1948.

Baulk Publishers Ltd. continued to publish the Times until 1969, when the chain was sold to the Kitchener-Waterloo Record Ltd.

This company grew to become Jemcom Inc., which published the Cambridge Times through its subsidiary, the Fairway Group. Jemco and its companies, including the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, was purchased by Southam Inc. in January 1990 and was later acquired by Conrad Black’s Hollinger Inc., which sold the Record and its affiliated companies to the Toronto Sun Publishing Co. in 1998.

The Times was later sold to CanWest Global as part of a deal involving a number of Sun Publishing Co. regional papers. CanWest Global then sold the Times and a number of other small market daily and weekly newspapers to Osprey Media Group. The deal closed in February 2003.

Later that same year, the Times was purchased by TorStar Corporation.

Hespeler Herald

Through Baulk Publishers Ltd., newspaper publishing in Preston was closely related to that in Hespeler. In 1946, Walter Baulk purchased the Hespeler Herald as an important link in the newly formed chain. With Mr. Baulk’s death in 1955, management of the Herald passed on to Richard Duff. Upon Mr. Duff’s death in 1965 much of the work of producing the Herald was transferred to Preston.

The Hespeler Herald, however, did not begin with Walter Baulk. The paper was established in 1897 under the direction of Oscar Eby. Like the Preston paper, the Herald was a weekly that offered a review of local happenings.

Like many businessmen of his day, Eby was a staunch Tory. However, he was first a businessman, and he did not let politics become involved in the operation of the newspaper. Eby recognized that to survive, a small weekly in a small town required the financial backing of both sides of the political fence and so he was careful to take no political stands that would antagonize either side.

In 1918, Eby sold the Herald to George Hudson, an ex-teacher and then publisher and editor of a weekly paper in Beamsville. Upon Hudson’s death, his son Edgar (Ted) Hudson took over the paper, which he operated until he was called up to military service during the Second World War.

In 1946, the Herald was purchased by Walter Baulk to become one of his chain of weeklies. The Herald continued as a separate publication until April 29, 1970 after which it merged with one of Mr. Baulk's other weeklies to form the Preston-Times-Herald. This paper became the Cambridge Times in January 1973.

— Courtesy Jim Quantrell, City of Cambridge Archives