Ottawa Journal
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The Ottawa Journal was a daily newspaper published in Ottawa, Ontario from 1885 to 1980.
It was founded in 1885 by A. Woodburn as the Ottawa Evening Journal. Its first editor was John Wesley Dafoe who came from the Winnipeg Free Press. In 1886, it was bought by Philip Dansken Ross.
The paper began publishing a morning edition in 1917. In 1919, the paper's publishers bought the Ottawa Free Press. The former owner of that paper, E. Norman Smith, then became editor with Grattan O'Leary.
In 1959, it was bought by F.P. Publications. By this time, the Journal, whose readers tended to come from rural areas, was trailing the Ottawa Citizen, its main competitor. The paper encountered labour problems during the 1970s and never really recovered.
In 1980, it was bought by Thomson Newspapers and was closed on August 26, 1980.
Ottawa went without a secondary newspaper until the debut of the Ottawa Sun in 1987.
Although the paper's politics tended to favour the Progressive Conservatives, it strove to present a balanced view.
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