page_title: Winnipeg Free Press
section_title: Timeline
hierarchical_section_title: Winnipeg Free Press / Timeline
caption_attribution_description: English: Taken from the promenade behind Portage Place mall
context_page_description: The Winnipeg Free Press is a daily broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It provides coverage of local, provincial, national, and international news, as well as current events in sports, business, and entertainment, while various consumer-oriented features such as homes and automobiles appear on a weekly basis.
  The WFP was founded in 1872, only two years after Manitoba joined Confederation, predating Winnipeg's own incorporation. The Winnipeg Free Press has since become the oldest newspaper in Western Canada that is still active. Though there is competition, primarily with the print daily tabloid Winnipeg Sun, the WFP has the largest readership of any newspaper in the province and is regarded as the newspaper of record for Winnipeg and Manitoba.
context_section_description: November, 30 1872: The Manitoba Free Press was launched by William Fisher Luxton and John A. Kenny. Luxton bought a press in New York, and, along with Kenny, rented a shack at 555 Main Street, near the present corner of Main Street and James Avenue.
  1874: The paper moved to a new building on Main Street, across from St. Mary Avenue.
  1882: Control of the Free Press was passed on to Clifford Sifton. The organization subsequently moved to a building on McDermot Avenue, where it would remain until 1900.
  1900: The paper moved to a new address on McDermot Avenue, at Albert Street.
  1901: John Wesley Dafoe served as president, editor-in-chief, and editorial writer for the WFP until 1944.
  1905: The newspaper moved to a four-storey building at Portage and Garry. 
  1913: The newspaper moved to 300 Carlton Street, remaining there for 78 years.
  1920: The Free Press took their newsprint supplier before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council for violating the War Measures Act of World War I. The newspaper won the case, known as Fort Frances Pulp and Paper v Manitoba Free Press, as the court determined that whether the state of national emergency continued after the war was a political matter for Parliament.
  1931: The paper was renamed Winnipeg Free Press.
  1991: The Free Press moved to its current location in the Inkster Industrial Park, a CA$150 million plant at 1355 Mountain Avenue.
  December 2001: The Free Press and its sister paper, Brandon Sun, were bought from Thomson Newspapers by FP Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership.
caption: Former newspaper headquarters on Carlton Street
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