PaperofRecord.com became the first company in the world to digitize over 21 million archived newspaper images from publications in Canada, United States, Mexico and Europe.

[2][3] The PaperofRecord database offered its users the unique ability to view its newspaper archives in their original published format, and search the entire contents of each page, down to a single word.

[4] Canada's two largest newspapers, The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star, were the first to participate in this process, with their archives being fully digitized and accessible to PaperofRecord subscribers by 2002.

[14] The name is an homage to Huggins' father, a Barnardo orphan who was sent to Canada as a twelve-year-old to work on a farm outside the village of Norwich, in Southwestern Ontario.

[17] The annual event, soon to be coined "The Greatest Freedom Show on Earth," was first instigated by Windsorite Walter Perry in August 1932, and continued until his death in 1968.

[18] Though Perry's death had a significant influence on the end of the tradition, the Detroit Riot of 1967 was also believed to have been a major reason behind its demise.