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EVER SINCE . . . when the first Halton squirrel discovered that "White Oak" Chisholm had founded a town to service the sawmill in the heart of the woodland wilderness of the valley of the Sixteen... WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS . .. , i . f .v ·I ; . . . . . , - - . . .. .. · , · ' . · ' . ' ; ' ' - '` _ · · · ' * .. ' I .·; HAVE PLAYED THEIR PART IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A Bigger and Better Oakville The Oakville W eekly Sun brought shipping news and the m essages of ft dozen merchants to residents of this community in its pioneer days of the 1850*. Later, other w eeklies like The Independent, The Star, The Sentinel and The Rec ord flew their journalistic banners here. And later still, in the 1920s, Gerry Mitchell founded the Oakville News in the building now occupied by The Jour nal. In carrying on the traditions established over the century by its noted pre decessors, this newspaper is extremely grateful for the community support that has enabled it to set new high standards in news and picture coverage and qual i ty. . . in advertising ex cellen ce. . . and in net paid circulation. Journal staf fers w ill continue to help blaze the trail toward a better, more prosperous, mod ern Oakville, THE JOURNAL flk * J io m * M tu A A fL O fie / i, O c J u U lU a n d T i c i fc U y a *