The editor’s note that begins a page one story in the May 22 issue of The Manitoulin Expositor (Your Newspaper Turns 145) declares this publication ‘Ontario’s oldest continuously published newspaper.’ In fact, a word was left out in error and The Expositor is the oldest newspaper in Northern Ontario. The honour for the province’s longest-serving newspaper belongs to the Picton Gazette, established in 1840 in Picton, Prince Edward County in Lake Ontario’s Bay of Quinte area. In fact, ownership of this remarkable paper recently passed to younger hands, just as Alicia McCutcheon assumed publisher’s duties for The Manitoulin Expositor some four years ago.
