A toast to Townshippers for supporting The Record for 124 years 8 February 2021 at 19 h 19 min Reading time: 1 min By Sharon McCully, Publisher Pierre Peladeau (that’s Papa Peladeau, not PK), believed there was something special about The Record that would see it succeed where others fail. He made the prediction before the advent of Google, Facebook and the pervasive contention that newspapers are dead. “The Record is too important to fail,” he said while making a comparison to his defunct Montreal Daily News. As The Record assembles the candles on its 124th birthday cake, it can rightly claim at least a modicum of success.