Charles S. Kitchen, James E. "Cap" Lean and Bill Carruthers produced the first edition of the weekly Peace River Block News in 1930 in Rolla, British Columbia.
The Kitchen family continued to run and grow the paper; by 1970 it was printing 5,300 copies per week and employed a staff of 22.
[2] In 1972, Norm Kitchen sold the Peace River Block News to Del Folk and Don Marshall, who increased its frequency to twice per week, Wednesdays and Fridays.
[5] In October 2023, a Vancouver-based Glacier media executive announced the paper's closure, blaming online platforms for falling advertising revenues.
[5] The closure of the Dawson Creek Mirror along with its sister paper has left a news desert in the Peace River region, with local governments left with few alternative means of distributing its public notices as required under British Columbia law..[6]