The Kingsville Reporter

The Kingsville Reporter appears to have began in the early 1870s with Sydney Arthur King, the son of the town's namesake, Colonel James King. Sydney earned a medical degree and was an accomplished businessman. In addition to his connection to the Reporter, he was the first to sink a natural gas well in Essex County, and his successor at the Reporter, S. T. Corpus, would also be lured away with natural gas exploration (Kingsville Reporter, July 11th, 1907, p. 1).

William H. Hellems, from the Brantford Expositor, would take over from Corpus a few years later, and publish the newspaper until 1938. In the early 1940s, the paper was purchased by William D. Conklin and Collin O. Sims. Conklin was a barrister and would move on from the newspaper, but the Sims family would remain closely associated with the Reporter even after its sale to Postmedia in 2007. In 2016, Nelson Santos served dual roles as the Reporter Editor and Mayor of Kingsville. The Kingsville Reporter ceased publishing in 2020.

Essay prepared by Art Rhyno