{{Short description|Canadian newspaper in British Columbia}} {{more citations needed|date=March 2020}}
{{Infobox newspaper | name = Chilliwack Progress | school = | logo = center|frameless | logo_size = | logo_border = no | logo_alt = Current logo of the Chilliwack Progress | image = Front Page of the Chilliwack Progress September 13 1917.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = B&W newspaper | caption = September 13, 1917 Front Cover | motto = Published in the interest of the fertile Chilliwack Valley | type = Weekly newspaper | format = Broadsheet | owner = Black Press | founder = <!-- or |founders= --> | publisher = Tara Hiebert | president = | editor = Jessica Peters | chief_editor = | deputy_editor = | associate_editor = | managing_editor = | general_manager = | news_editor = | staff_writers = | political_position = | language = English | founded = {{Start date and age|1891|04|16}} | ceased_publication = | headquarters = | publishing_city = Chilliwack, British Columbia | publishing_country = Canada | circulation = 28,095 | circulation_date = October 2022 | circulation_ref = <ref>{{Cite web |date=April 1, 2023 |title=2023 Black Press Media Kit |url=https://www.blackpressmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/MediaKit_April2023_H.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231219011509/https://www.blackpressmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/MediaKit_April2023_H.pdf |archive-date=December 19, 2023 |access-date=December 19, 2023 |website=Black Press Media}}</ref> | readership = | ISSN = 0839-2986 | eISSN = | oclc = 1027072966 | RNI = | website = {{URL|theprogress.com}} | free = }}
''The '''Chilliwack Progress''''' is a weekly newspaper in Chilliwack, British Columbia. It publishes Friday and is owned by Black Press.
==History==
''The Chilliwack Progress'' was first published on April 16, 1891.{{sfn|The British Columbia Historical Quarterly|1948|p=286}} It remains the longest continuously published newspaper in British Columbia.
Seeing a need for a daily newspaper William Thomas (W.T) Jackman purchased a printing and newspaper press in Toronto and shipped it to Chilliwack. He set up shop at 39 Yale Road East (now 46169 Yale Road East) and published the first edition of the Chilliwack Progress on April 16, 1891.{{sfn|Evans|2018|p=}} The paper stayed at that location until 1974.
In 2013, several newspapers were swapped between Black Press Media and Glacier Media which resulted in both Chilliwack community newspapers, the C''hilliwack Progress'' and the ''Chilliwack Times'' being owned by Black Press.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Do |first=Eric Mark |date=2013-10-22 |title=Black Press and Glacier Media swap six newspaper titles - J-Source |url=https://j-source.ca/black-press-and-glacier-media-swap-six-newspaper-titles/#:~:text=Press%20bought%20two%20publications%20from%20and%20sold%20four%20others%20to%20Glacier%20Media&text=Times%20and%20the%20Chilliwack%20Times%20will%20now%20be%20part%20of%20Black%20Press, |access-date=2025-03-23 |language=en-US}}</ref> In December of 2016 it was announced that the ''Chilliwack Times'' would be consolidated into the ''Progress'' with the last edition of the ''Times'' published December 26, 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-12-28 |title=New year brings exciting changes at the Chilliwack Progress |url=https://www.theprogress.com/news/new-year-brings-exciting-changes-at-the-chilliwack-progress-1860177 |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=The Chilliwack Progress |language=en}}</ref>
On March 23, 2020, it was announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic the ''Chilliwack Progress'' was moving to one print edition per week.{{sfn|Henderson|2020|p=}}
==Bibliography== '''Notes''' {{reflist|20em}} '''References''' *{{cite journal |last=The British Columbia Historical Quarterly|author-link=British Columbia Historical Federation|date= 1948|title=Still in operation at the present time|journal=The British Columbia Historical Quarterly|volume= 12 |publisher=Archives of British Columbia|issn=0706-7666}} *{{cite web |last=Evans|first=Tristan |date=September 19, 2018|url = http://www.chilliwackmuseum.ca/blog/2018/09/19/chilliwack-progress-heart-of-our-community/|title =The Chilliwack Progress: Heart of Our Community|publisher = Chilliwack Museum and Historical Society| access-date = March 22, 2020 }} *{{cite news |date= March 23, 2020|title= Chilliwack Progress temporarily switching to one print edition per week|last=Henderson|first= Paul|url=https://www.theprogress.com/news/chilliwack-progress-temporarily-switching-to-one-print-edition-per-week/|newspaper=Chilliwack Progress|location=Chilliwack, British Columbia|issn=0839-2986|oclc=1027072966|access-date= March 23, 2020 }}
{{Canadian journalism}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chilliwack Progress}} Category:Newspapers established in 1891 Category:1891 establishments in British Columbia Category:Weekly newspapers published in British Columbia Category:Black Press newspapers
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