Vancouver Sun dominates western region

The Vancouver Sun, a daily broadsheet newspaper, published by Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Toronto’s Postmedia Network (itself a division of U.S. based Chatham Asset Management), is Western Canada’s largest newspaper.

Launched in 1912, The Vancouver Sun expanded over time by acquiring other newspapers, including the Evening World and the Daily News-Advertiser.

In 1937, after a fire destroyed the paper’s facility, It moved across the street in what came to be called The Sun Building.

In 1954, in a cost-cutting move, the Sun and the Daily Province merged.

In 1963 the Cromie family sold the Sun to FP Publications. It was sold again to Southam Inc. in 1980. In 1992, Conrad Black’s company, Holliger Inc., took over. CanMedia purchased it in 2000. PostMedia acquired the Sun and other CanMedia properties in 2010.

br> In 1994, they became the first newspaper to convert entirely to digital photography.

In 2009 the paper laid off its cartoonist, Roy Peterson, who had been drawing since 1962.

In 2011, accommodating the vibrant Chinese population in Canada, the Sun launched a Chinese-language edition with original content..

In 2017, The Sun downsized its staff by outsourcing the printing functions.

In the period from 2009 to 2015, the Sun’s print circulation dropped by 22 percent to 186,787 from 2009 to 2015.