We have a very timely story of Cochrane history this week.
As of the end of October, the Cochrane Times-Post is gone. So we look back to 1910, when the first weekly newspaper that became the Times-Post first published.
It was called The Northland. Its first issue was on June 3rd, 1910.
Its masthead called it “A Journal devoted to the interests of New Ontario.”
The front page noted how 18 months earlier, Cochrane wasn’t even on the map. The T&NO Railway set up the townsite and named it after lands and forests minister Frank Cochrane.
By June 1910, it had five business streets: Third through Sixth Avenues and Railway St.
The Northland became the Northland Post and eventually merged with the Times to be the Cochrane Times-Post.
Thanks to the public library for this gem from its archives.
