The Bancroft Times

The Bancroft Times was founded in late 1894 by John Bremmer.^[3][4] John Bremmer wrote and published about the newspaper on November 7th 1894 and then published the first edition on December 7th the same year.^[3] An annual subscription for the newspaper cost $1.^[3] The first offices were on Hastings Street North, Bancroft, Ontario.^[3]

John Bremmer sold the company to brothers David H. Morrison and W.E. Morrison in 1897^[3] and launched a rival newspaper The Bancroft Recorder.^[5] W.E. Morrison left the company three years later.^[3] The company's offices relocated to Bridge Street on October 1899.^[3]

Harry Morton Price worked for the newspaper as an apprentice from 1905 until 1908 and bought the company on in late 1918.^[3]

Harry Morton Price's stepson Stanley Russel Walker joined the company as an apprentice in 1927.^[3] When he left to take part in the Second World War, the production was done by Harry Morton Price and Hilda Allerbeck (Stanley Russel Walker's sister).^[3] When Stanley Russel Walker returned from the war, he became a business partner and co-owner of the newspaper with Harry Morton Price. Harry Morton Price's health forced him to retire in 1957.^[3]

In 1963, Stanley Russel Walker relocated the offices to 93 Hastings Street North.^[3] Stanley Russel Walker died in 1965 and his wife Eva, and their four sons, Frank, David, Dean and Roger, managed the publication.^[3] Eva died in 1999 and Roger Walker left the business in 2000.^[3] Frank and Dean Walker sold the business to White Pine Media in June 2018.^[6] The paper's publisher is David Zilstra.^[6]