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From Walking tour of Rimbey (available online)
14. The Rimbey Record Office
This two-storey frame building that sits behind a more recently added real estate office, housed the Rimbey Record from 1936 to the late 1990s. It is best seen from the east side, where a loading dock for newspapers is visible.
Look for the Record's old printing press at the museum in Pas-Ka-Poo Park. In the days before computers each letter had to be typeset before the page could be run through the ink rollers.
During its printed life, the Record operated from a succession of premises, beginning in 1930 under the hand of W. J. Good.
In 1935 the Record building burned (not this location), and the paper moved into the Windsor Hotel, which sat on this lot from 1915 to 1936.
On February 18th, 1936, the hotel burned to the ground, taking the printing and newspaper business with it! Undaunted the Record remodeled the old Legion building, installed new equipment, and was back in print at the beginning of April.
Work began on the new building that would become its final home in May 1936. The south end was used as living quarters.
Rimbey's first newspaper was the Rimbey Pioneer, published for a year in 1919.
In 1921 it was followed by the Rimbey Advance, until it was wiped out by fire in 1922.
Beginning in 1930, the Rimbey Record captured small town life in Rimbey for more than 6 decades, even winning an international award.
That role has now been ably followed by the Rimbey Review and the Blindman Valley Horizon as Rimbey embarks on its second century
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info from that and found in Strathearn's Alberta Newspapers.
weekly news sheet produced by Mr. Thorpe each Saturday
mentioned in local history Pas-Ka-Poo in Strathearn's book
can find no mention of this new sheet in the newspapers 1900-1919 through Peel's PP search but Thorpe is mentioned lots.
Rimbey's first newspaper was the Rimbey Pioneer, published for a year in 1919.
This was the one that suffered in the "Rimbey Riot"
announcement of forthcoming start announced in Western Globe, Aug. 6, 1919. Globe was to start up a separate newspaper in Rimbey.
its start announced in Western Globe, September 3, 1919.
list of businesses in Rimbey published in Globe includes a printing office. Western Globe, September 3, 1919.
(Rimbey Pioneer not mentioned again by the Globe)
(Peel's PP search for Rimbey and newspaper and news 1900-1919 found nothing else.)
it is said that its printing presses were destroyed by advocates of the old site of the town. (CPP, May 1919 [must mean 1920])
It seems when the railway came in 1920, it bypassed the old settlement "due to the grade" (Hill or river valley) and built a railway station some distance from the old settlement.
resentment was naturally aroused by the businessmen of the old settlement, leading to illegal and unfortunate "Rimbey Riot".
1920 Red Deer News April 28, 1920 "Raiders wreck printing office"
"Apparently because the manager accepted advertizing for the new townsite company at Rimbey, a bunch of supporers of the old-town faction broke into the office of the Rimbey Pioneer, smashed the presses and threw the type out on the road, completely wrecking the place.
The police have been notified and arrests are expected.
The business is owned by C.B. Halpin & Sons, of the Western Globe, Lacombe, with C.B. Halpin, Jr. manager."
Western Globe May 5, 1920 carried a fuller story on "The Rimbey Riot".
discontent for weeks after railway station not placed in existing settlement and the establishment of a new townsite at the railway station location.
petition attempted...
plan was to gather in the wee hours (April 23rd) and then haul the printing office and the adjacent McGillivray Realty Co., which was advertising lots in the new townsite, to a site in the new townsite, by horse and wagon. But the dray-man got cold feet and never showed up.
So the mob resorted to simply destroying the businesses on site.
one, then three police officers arrived.
local business men were arrested, plead guilty and promised to make good the damages.
Western Globe said that more arrests should occur but "while it might give some satisfaction, no good end could be accomplished by bringing them before the courts.
... We hope that Rimbey's business men and business women will now see the danger of agitating...
Lawlessness does not pay in Alberta, and we hope Rimbey has got its lesson."
Ponoka Herald, April 29, 1920
"Rimbey Pioneer Office Destroyed. The Old or the New Townsite?"
"A truly Western drama was enacted in the town of Rimbey Friday night. It appears that owing to the grade, the railway will not enter the old town and that a new townsite is being formed some distance away. It is natural that they feel resentment but if the railway will not enter the town, it won't, so the thing to do is to get busy and move..."
and then the article quoted the Red Deer News item quoted above.
Ponoka Gerald May 6 carried news of the accused going before a high court.
damages to the realty office and the printing office set at $1000 each.
damages described - it looked as if high explosive had hit the office everything breakable had been broken.
Ponoka Herald, May 12, 1920 printing office to be re-established in a building near the railway station
sale of lots in new townsite strong but McGillivray lost all his papers at the hand of the raiders
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(Western Globe June 9, 1920 announced the Railway building were completed at the new townsite, according to McGillivray, selling agent for the new townsite. and "the new printing office of the Rimbey Pioneer will be open in a few weeks"
(this was last reference found to Rimbey and Printing, so perhaps it was never opened)
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In 1921 the Rimbey Advance started, until it was wiped out by fire in Nov. 1922.
Beginning in 1930, the Rimbey Record captured small town life in Rimbey for more than 6 decades, even winning an international award.
started July 17, 1930
1935 fire (see above
1936 fire see above
moved to Legion building
moved into custom-built building where spent rest of its years.
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At that time, an old-timer of Rimbey, James Huston Vliet, died at age 72.
At the age of 15 back in Ohio, he had lost his left hand and arm.
but went to on to pioneer and farm at Rimbey and raise a large family of six children, one dying when young.
At the end, he suffered from Bright's disease, which "weakened his once strong body".
(from Western Globe Aug. 25, 1920, p. 4)
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