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London Free Press

Date1920s-1960s
Dimensions2 × 8 ft. (61 × 243.8 cm)
Credit LineCollection of Museum London, 1999
Object number1999.017.001
Label TextWilliam Sutherland established the weekly Canadian Free Press in 1849. Josiah Blackburn purchased the paper in 1852 and renamed it the London Free Press. He published the paper daily from 1855. It stayed in the family through generations of Blackburn’s. In 1997, the Blackburn family sold the London Free Press to Sun Media Corporation.
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