Remembering The Lindsay Post

Editorial

In the grand scope of information history, few things hold more importance than our newspaper records from the past. These archives reveal our identity as a community and chronicle the path we have taken to reach the present.

A few months back, Kawartha Lakes Museum and Archives developed a virtual exhibit on the history of The Lindsay Post. It’s easily accessible on their website and definitely worth checking out for its content and visuals.

As the website indicates, the Post played an integral role in the social and cultural fabric of its community, remaining vital for its ability to bring people together. Over time, it adapted by adding extra editions and growing its presence. In the 1960s, Editor Alan Capon greatly influenced its style and content. The Post changed hands several times, with Roy Wilson being its final independent owner. His death in 1981 marked the end of an era, leading to the eventual closure of this publication as it went through a series of corporate owners.

In an interesting bit of synchronicity within journalism history, The Lindsay Advocate newspaper was the first independent paper ever published in the town in 1855. This media outlet didn’t realize that when we formed in 2017, creating the modern-day Advocate as a news and features magazine. (The Advocate newspaper was soon supplanted by The Watchman-Warder and the Post as the earliest journalistic enterprises in Victoria County that survived.)

Here at Fireside Publishing House, we are thankful for the love the present-day Advocate has in the hearts of readers. And we are heartened by the community outpouring of support for our efforts to bring back a print newspaper – Kawartha Lakes Weekly. Proud to carry on the tradition of local, independent community journalism, we value what our local museum has done in so ably capturing the spirit of the Post over its long, storied history.

We are proud to be heirs of this legacy in our own small way, existing during an age of disappearing print media.