The ''St. Albert Gazette'' is a

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distributed throughout

St. Albert, Alberta St. Albert is a List of cities in Canada, city in Alberta, Canada, next to the Sturgeon River (Alberta), Sturgeon River, northwest of the Edmonton, City of Edmonton, the provincial capital. It was originally settled as a Métis community, and is ...

and published every Thursday. The newspaper was founded on June 17, 1961 by Wim Netelenbos Sr. who originally operated the paper out of his home. It was usually 28 black-and-white pages and the first writers were originally volunteers with the paper published every Saturday. In 1980, the Gazette bought a used printing press which allowed the paper to do its own printing. They also formed a new printing operation at the same time. In 1980, The paper was owned by Southam Inc., which at the time owned newspapers across Canada, including the nearby

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. In 1995, the Gazette and Southam Inc. formed

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which began acquiring community newspapers throughout the province. Southam Inc. was bought out by

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in 1997 until 2005 when the Gazette bought out its partner, Hollinger and entered a partnership with Vancouver-based

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. Today, Great West Newspapers and the Gazette is owned by Glacier Media and Jamison Newspapers Inc.

Earlier Newspaper

In 1949, a newspaper also named the ''St. Albert Gazette'' began publication published out of nearby

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and reported news from around Sturgeon County. The newspaper is not the same entity that exists today and stopped publication in 1953, when it merged with the Morinville Journal.

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* Weekly newspapers published in Alberta Postmedia Network publications St. Albert, Alberta Great West Newspapers {{Canada-newspaper-stub