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{{Short description|Canadian newspaper in Nova Scotia}}
{{other uses|Casket (disambiguation){{!}}Casket}}
{{Infobox Newspaper |
name                = The Casket |
image               = |
caption             = |
type                =  Weekly [[newspaper]] |
format              = [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|Tabloid]] |
foundation          = 1852 |
ceased publication  = |
price               = |
owners              = [[SaltWire Network]]|
publisher           = |
editor              = |
language            = [[English language|English]] |
political           = |
circulation         = 4101<ref name="adat">{{cite web |url=http://www.adatlantic.com/publication_details.php?npid=0169 |title=The Casket |publisher=AdAtlantic |accessdate=4 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829124300/http://adatlantic.com/publication_details.php?npid=0169# |archive-date=2012-08-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref>|
headquarters        = [[Antigonish, Nova Scotia]] |
ISSN                = |
website             = [http://www.thecasket.ca/ thecaskket.ca]
}}
'''''The Casket''''' is a weekly newspaper published in [[Antigonish, Nova Scotia]], Canada, by [[SaltWire Network]].

== History ==
First published on June 24, 1852, by John Boyd,<ref>A.A. Johnson, ''A History of the Catholic Church in Eastern Nova Scotia, Vol. II'', [[St. Francis Xavier University]] Press, Antigonish, N.S., 1971</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=i4JTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sYYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4002%2C1570556 | title=Unusual names bestowed on a few U.S. newspapers | work=The Bulletin [Bend, Oregon] | date=Apr 19, 1984 | accessdate=22 May 2015 | author=Weintraub, Boris | pages=16}}</ref> the paper was eventually acquired by Casket Printing and Publishing Company.<ref>{{cite news|title=Brace Capital acquires Casket Printing & Publishing|url=http://www.thecasket.ca/archives/20748|accessdate=5 May 2013|newspaper=The Casket|date=July 20, 2012}}</ref>

Brace Publishing Limited, a division of the Halifax newspaper ''[[The Chronicle Herald]]'', acquired the newspaper in 2012 before being subsumed into the ''Chronicle Herald's'' expanded SaltWire Network in 2017.   

Staff have included the noted cartoonist [[Bruce MacKinnon (cartoonist)|Bruce MacKinnon]], who worked for the paper as a youth.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bruce MacKinnon|url=http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoonist/profile.cfm/MacKiB/|work=Member Profiles|publisher=AAEC|accessdate=5 May 2013}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Newspapers of Nova Scotia}}
{{Canadian journalism}}

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[[Category:SaltWire Network publications]]
[[Category:Canadian Gaelic]]
[[Category:Newspapers established in 1852]]

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