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overview
holdings
landmarks
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landmarks
This chronology is indicative only. It covers -
Context is provided by the broader communications and
media timeline on this site.
antecedents
1892
Evening Star ("A Paper for the People") launched in
Toronto
1899 acquired by Joseph Atkinson
1909 Mills & Boon founded in UK
1910 Star Weekly launched
1920 Ernest Hemingway hired by Star
1948 Joseph Atkinson leaves Star to Atkinson Charitable
Foundation
1949 Harlequin founded in Canada
1957 Harlequin buys rights to titles from Mills &
Boon
beginnings
1958 trustees of Foundation buy Star for C$25m,
later form Torstar
1968 Star Weekly bought by Canadian magazine
1971 Toronto Telegram folds
1971 Harlequin buys Mills & Boon
1981 morning edition of the Star launched
1985 Torstar buys 23% of newspaper publisher Southam Inc
1985 Southam buys 30% of Torstar's non-voting shares
1991 buys interactive educational software house Tom Snyder
Productions
Southam and Sun
1992 Hollinger buys Torstar's
22.6% stake in Southam
1998 buys 4 Southern Ontario dailies from Southam
1998 unsuccessful bid for Sun Media, which passes to Quebecor
1999 sells Troll Communications to Willis Stein Partners
for US$69m
2001 buys QE Web Printing Ltd
2001 sells Frank Schaffer Publications to McGraw-Hill
2001 forms joint venture (75% stake with Metro
International S.A.) to publish Metro Today free
daily newspaper, replacing Today and Metro
papers
2001 buy 55% of Sing Tao's Canadian
arm for US$14m
2002 writes off C$25m stake in ITI Education Corporation,
sells Delta Education to The Wicks Group
2002 sells Tom Snyder Productions to Scholastic Corp for
US$9m
2002 pays C$4.1m for controlling interest in Transit Television
Network joint venture with ITEC Network
2002 pays C$20.6m for 19.35% share of Black
Press Ltd (publisher of 88 newspapers, with 11 printing
plants in Western Canada, Washington State and Hawaii)
2003 buys outdoor advertising operator Olifas Marketing
Group (OMG Media)
2003 buys magazine publisher and events company J.H. Robinson
Publishing Ltd and Silva Litho Solutions Inc. for C$6m
2005 BCE sells 48.5% of Bell Globemedia
for C$1.3bn to Torstar (20%), Ontario Teachers' Pension
Plan (20%) and Thomson family's
Woodbridge (8.5%).
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