''The Beacon Herald (Stratford Beacon-Herald)'' is a daily newspaper (Monday to Saturday) published in

Stratford, Ontario Stratford is a city on the Avon River (Ontario), Avon River within Perth County, Ontario, Perth County in southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a 2021 Canadian census, 2021 population of 33,232 in a land area of . Stratford is the County seat, s ...

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. The paper serves the area of

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History

The paper was established in 1923 from the merger of two local papers, the ''Stratford Beacon Weekly'' (c.1855 and daily after 1887) and ''Stratford Weekly Herald'' (c.1863 and daily after 1887). The paper is the survivor of several other papers in Stratford: * ''Stratford Mirror'', 1920s to 1940s * ''Stratford Times'', 1964 to 1976 * ''Stratford Weekly News'', 1979 to 1980 The paper was owned by the Dingman family until it was acquired by

Sun Media Sun Media Corporation was the owner of several tabloid and broadsheet newspapers in Canada and the 49% owner of the now defunct Sun News Network. It was a subsidiary of Quebecor Media. On October 6, 2014, Quebecor Media announced the sale of ...

(

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) in 2000 and, in turn, by

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in 2015.

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