The ''North Bay Nugget'' is a newspaper published in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. The paper is currently owned by

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. The paper was launched in 1907 as the ''Cobalt Nugget'', during the silver boom at Cobalt, Ontario. It was acquired by businessmen Harry Browning and W. G. Ferguson within a few months."Harry S. Browning: Printer Joined Cobalt Rush, Founded Paper"]. ''

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'', April 6, 1963. Initially a weekly, it was expanded into a daily paper in 1909, and Browning was a founding member of Canadian Press when that cooperative was founded in 1917. Following the end of the Cobalt boom, Browning moved the paper to North Bay in 1921; he then sold it to W. E. Mason, the owner of the '' Sudbury Star'', in 1922, and moved to Sudbury in 1927 to become managing editor of the ''Star''. Mason remained the ''Nugget's'' owner until his death in 1948, following which an

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purchased it from his estate. It was acquired by

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in 1956. Southam acquired the

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chain in 1996, reuniting the ''Nugget'' and the ''Star'' under common ownership. The papers were both sold to

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in 2001, and to Sun Media in 2007. In 2015, Postmedia acquired Sun Media."Quebecor turns focus to wireless; Sale of English-language newspapers leaves it more Quebec-centric". '' Ottawa Citizen'', October 7, 2014.

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