Sechelt Public Library
Collection, Peninsula Times -- Accidents, Page 1
The Sechelt Public Library acquired several boxes
of The Peninsula Times newspaper photographs after the
newspaper ceased publication in 1980 and donated them to the
Sechelt Community Archives in 1997. The photographs, with accompanying text, cover
activities, happenings, people, organizations, sports and
cultural events; in fact pictures of every day life on the
Sunshine Coast from Egmont to Port Mellon for sixteen years.
Sunshine Coast residents have enjoyed reading
numerous local newspapers from as early as 1931. The longest
running newspaper, the Coast News, started in 1945 and ran
until January 1995. It was founded by Al Alsgard of Powell
River and Ernie Parr-Pearson of Halfmoon Bay and Sechlet.
Mr. Alsgard and his son Stewart published the Peninsula
Times newspaper, also known as the Sechelt Peninsula Times,
from December 1963 until 1980. It was printed in Powell
River. Mr. Alsgard, who came to Powell River in 1926, worked
in most departments of the Powell River paper mills until he
became involved in the newspaper business in 1933. He
published and owned several different Powell River
newspapers as well as the Sechelt Peninsula Times until he
sold them to Winnipeg interests in 1970. The Alsgard family
continued to print the Peninsula Times newspaper until 1980
when the paper was shut down by its Winnipeg owners. Mr.
Alsgard died in 1978.
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