The Reminder was founded as The Flin Flon Daily Reminder on October 16, 1946 by Tom Dobson, an employee of Flin Flon's largest employer, Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting.

The first few issues of the Daily Reminder were stapled together at the top corner and handed out to workers coming off shift at the main gate.

By then the publication schedule had been cut back to five days a week, Monday to Friday.

Within several months, the publication introduced an editorial page that included regular commentary on local affairs.

The paper's reduction to a tri-weekly trimmed the number of daily newspapers in the Canadian Prairie provinces from 18 to 17.