About: Cambridge Reporter

The Cambridge Reporter was a local daily newspaper in Southern Ontario serving the community of Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1846 as the Galt Reporter by Peter Jaffray, a Scottish settler who was originally from Stirlingshire and who immigrated to Galt in 1844. Before immigrating, Jaffray had worked at the Edinburgh printing and publishing firm of Oliver and Boyd, then worked for twenty-two years at the Shrewsbury Chronicle in Shrewsbury, England. Jaffray founded the Reporter after resigning from a predecessor newspaper named the Dumfries Courier, which was the first newspaper published in Galt. James Ainslie was an early partner in the Reporter's publication, and for some time it was published out of a building he owned, which was at the corner of Main Street and Ainslie