Red Deer Newspapers 1894-1996‪.‬

From the time Red Deer was recognized as a hamlet in 1894 to its present stature as a city of more than 60,000, newspapers have played a major role in the lives of the city's and district's citizens. During the early years, the first newspapers experienced only a brief existence in the community, with the first three lasting only a few weeks each. The first was The Red Deer Review, started under the editorship of D. H. Murphy who had arrived from Donaldson, Minnesota, a month earlier. The first issue was published in March 1894 by the Saskatchewan Land & Homestead Company. In that same month the Red Deer Board of Trade was formed and paid the express charges and the costs of distributing the newspaper. The Board of Trade had high hopes for the newspaper but everyone's good intentions were short-lived. According to Michael Dawe,