The Record is the only daily (Monday–Friday) English language newspaper based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. It serves the Eastern Townships region of that province. It is one of the French-speaking province's last two English-language dailies; the other is the Montreal Gazette, which serves the anglophone community in Montreal. Launched on February 9, 1897, by businessman Leonard Channell and originally known as the Sherbrooke Daily Record, it is one of the two last surviving English-language daily newspapers in the French-speaking province, the other being the much larger Montreal Gazette. For the past several years, The Record has been a daily community newspaper for the anglophone minority in the Eastern Townships, without comprehensive coverage of national and world news. "Talk", or "Talk of the Townships", a weekly television, arts and cultural insert, appears every Friday. Periodic sections focus on individual communities and events within the Record's service area. Future Canadian media barons John Bassett and Conrad Black both got their starts in newspaper ownership as owner and co-owner, respectively, of the Sherbrooke Daily Record. For years The Record was owned by Black's Hollinger International. In January 2006 it was purchased by Alta Newspaper Group, a partnership of Glacier Ventures International and former Hollinger executive David Radler. Fire In January 1999, a fire broke out in The Records offices, which were located on rue Delorme in Sherbrooke. The building and its contents, including the newspapers computers and presses, suffered heavy losses. The newspaper was temporarily moved to a location in nearby Lennoxville without its own press. A replacement press was eventually purchased and in June 2000 the newspaper moved into its current location on rue Galt Est, in Sherbrooke. Former editors Leonard S. Channell, 1897–1899 Victor E. Morrill, 1899–1909 Harry Logie, 1909–1919 Gordon Miller, 1919–1930 Alfred Wood, 1930–1935 Gordon Miller, 1935–1937 J.K. Flaherty, ?-? Albert Reid, ?-? Don McMahon, ?-? Douglas Amaron, ?-? Gerald McDuff, ?-? George McFarlane, ?-? Arnold Agnew, ?-1959 John Cranford, 1959–1963 Hugh Doherty, 1963–1968 Leonard Ryan, 1968–1969 Leonard Coates, 1969–1970 William Duff, 1970 Paul Waters, 1971 Ivy Weir, [nee Pankovitch], 1971 C. Scott Abbott, 1971–1972 Lewis Harris, 1972–1973 Alex Radmanovich, 1973–1974 Hugh Tait, 1974 Barbara Verity, [Stevenson], 1974–1977 James Duff, 1977–1981 Charles Bury, 1981–1996 Sharon McCully, 1996-2006 Eleanor Brown, 2006-? Jennifer Young, ? -2009 Michael McDevitt, (interim editor 2009) (assistant editor 2010) Daniel Coulombe, 2010-2014 John Edwards, 2014 See also List of newspapers in Canada References External links The