"[3] Afterward, Ainslie founded his own rival weekly newspaper, the Dumfries Reformer,[1] which was later purchased by James Young in 1853.
[4] In 1973, the paper changed its name to the Cambridge Reporter after the city of Galt merged with the towns of Preston and Hespeler, and parts of the townships of Waterloo and North Dumfries, to form Cambridge.
[5] In 2003 the Cambridge Reporter was closed by parent Torstar Corporation, with a final paper published on September 19, 2003.
A new online-only Cambridge Reporter was launched by Colin Carmichael in June 2008.
News stories are not original to that publication but instead come from other newspapers such as the Record and the Cambridge Times.