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22-566: It was Canada's largest newspaper until the 1950s and remained the dominant English-language newspaper in Montreal until shortly before its closure. The paper was founded January 16, 1869, by Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan , and George T. Lanigan as the Montreal Evening Star . Graham ran the newspaper for nearly 70 years. In 1877, The Evening Star became known as The Montreal Daily Star . As well as news and editorials,

44-608: A daily readership of 52,600; by 1913 40% of its circulation was outside of Montreal. By 1915, the Montreal Star dominated the city's English-language evening newspaper market and Graham was able to out-perform his competitors who closed and assured him control of the English-language market. In 1925, Graham sold the Montreal Star to John Wilson McConnell , but continued to operate the newspaper until his death in 1938. McConnell also owned two other publications,

66-473: A few months later on September 25, 1979. The Gazette acquired the Star ' s building, presses, and archives, and became the sole English-language daily in Montreal. Prior to the strike the Star had consistently out-sold The Gazette . The newspaper ceased publication only a few months after another Montreal daily, Montréal-Matin , stopped its presses. These closings left many Montrealers concerned. In

88-682: A journalist, who published the Commercial Advertiser , and afterwards the Evening Telegraph in Montreal. In 1865, he was appointed Secretary-Treasurer of the Gazette Printing Company . In 1869, along with George T. Lanigan and perhaps journalist Thomas Marshall (his role is disputed), he founded the Evening Star (later The Montreal Star ), a one-cent daily. At first the Star' s specialty

110-484: A row in the 1950s, and during their dynasty years in the 1960s and 1970s. Fisher said Habs legend Dickie Moore was his closest friend. He was also at the 1972 Summit Series between NHL players and the Soviet national team . Fisher was known for his "no-nonsense approach" to his career, such as his refusal to talk to rookies and walk away if a player answered his questions with cliches . Fisher served as president of

132-607: The Montreal Standard and the weekly Family Herald: Canada's National Farm Magazine . Beginning in the 1940s, the Montreal Star became very successful, with a circulation of nearly 180,000 and remaining at roughly that same level for approximately thirty years. In 1951, the Montreal Star launched its Weekend Magazine supplement (subsuming the former Montreal Standard ), with an initial circulation of 900,000. After McConnell's death in 1963, Toronto -based FP newspaper group , owner of The Globe and Mail and

154-637: The Montreal Standard , which catered to Montreal's urban population. He also gained control of the Montreal Herald , a liberal daily, and was president of the Montreal Star Publishing Company. Graham's publishing business prospered and he became one of the most powerful media executives in Canada. His newspapers' editorials greatly influenced the federal government's decision in 1900 to send troops to participate in

176-642: The Winnipeg Free Press acquired the Montreal Star . Thomson Newspapers later acquired the FP chain in 1980. In 1971, most of the shares in the newspaper were owned by Commercial Trust. In 1978, a strike by pressmen (printers' union) began and lasted eight months. Although the strike was settled in February 1979 and the Star resumed publication, it had lost readers and advertisers to the rival paper The Gazette , and ceased publication permanently only

198-702: The British offensive in the Second Boer War . In 1905, Graham expanded his publishing business with the establishing of the Montreal Standard newspaper. In 1908, he was knighted by King Edward VII and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Law (LL.D.) by the University of Glasgow . In May 1917 he was created Baron Atholstan , of Huntingdon in the Province of Quebec in the Dominion of Canada and of

220-654: The Professional Hockey Writers' Association from 1968 to 1970. He was the longest-serving beat writer to cover an NHL team. Over his career, he worked for ten editors and publishers, and won the Canadian National Newspaper Award three times. His retirement was announced by Gazette publisher Alan Allnutt in a column on 8 June 2012. He continued to write guest articles for the Gazette until his death. Fisher died at

242-478: The Star in 1951 and 1952, prior to being inducted in the reporters section of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame . Other contributors of note included Kathleen Shackleton in the beginning of the 20th century, Red Fisher , Doris Giller , Nick Auf der Maur , Don Macpherson , Terry Mosher and Dennis Trudeau, many of whom moved over to The Gazette when the Star folded. Raymond Heard

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264-463: The Star sometimes created its own topics of interest; in the late 1890s it sponsored a world tour for journalist Sarah Jeannette Duncan, and printed a series of features about her adventures. In the 1890s the Star began voluntary audits of its circulation figures, and called for government regulation to control inflated circulation claims by other publications. The paper's circulation increased significantly during that decade, and by 1899, it reached

286-677: The 77-year-old Lord Atholstan sold his publications to John W. McConnell . In 1936, he donated the Atholstan Trophy , emblematic of cricket supremacy in eastern Canada, and in 1924 the Atholstan Trophy to the Canadian Football (Soccer) Association. Eventually this trophy was awarded to the champions of the National Soccer League of Canada from 1926 to 1941 and then from 1947 to 1950, when it

308-598: The City of Edinburgh, by King George V . This granting of a peerage title to Graham was the final impetus for the drafting of the Nickle Resolution , which requested the Sovereign to cease granting knighthoods and peerage titles to Canadian subjects. On August 9, 1917, Lord Atholstan's country residence was dynamited by radicals opposed to Canada's military conscription—an issue that Graham supported. In 1925,

330-614: The colour of his hair as a young man. Fisher began his hockey reporting for The Montreal Star on 17 March 1955, the night of the Richard Riot . He remained as writer and sports editor until the Star' s demise in 1979. He then joined the Montreal Gazette as sports editor (for a short time), where his columns continued to appear. He covered the Montreal Canadiens when they won five Stanley Cups in

352-469: The federal government to establish the Kent Commission to examine newspaper monopolies in Canada. The Star was the first newspaper in Canada to employ a staff editorial cartoonist , when it hired Henri Julien in 1888. Its sports editor Harold Atkins, writing under the column 'Sports Snippings', nicknamed the wheelchair basketball team as "The Wheelchair Wonders". Eddie MacCabe wrote for

374-523: The late 1970s, the Star launched its own non-fiction book publishing brand. After the publication of the paper was ended post-strike, the book division continued to operate independently. In 1982, it was taken private, and subsequently renamed Optimum Publishing International . The death of the Star , soon followed by the simultaneous closing of the Winnipeg Tribune and Ottawa Journal pushed

396-648: Was a Canadian newspaper publisher. Born in Athelstan, Canada East (now Hinchinbrooke , Huntingdon County , Quebec ), Graham was the son of Robert Walker Graham, a Scottish land owner, and his wife, Marion Gardner (d.1874), daughter of Colonel Thomas McLeay Gardner (1792-1854), of Edinburgh and Huntingdon. He was educated at the Huntingdon Academy until the age of fifteen. After terminating school, he served his apprenticeship as office boy and later business manager under his uncle, E. H. Parsons ,

418-758: Was a Canadian sports journalist who wrote about the National Hockey League and the Montreal Canadiens in his newspaper column. Fisher received the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1985. He was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1999, and became a Member of the Order of Canada (CM) in 2017. Fisher was born in Montreal in 1926 and was given the nickname "Red" for

440-724: Was retired. He died on January 28, 1938. Graham married Annie Beekman Hamilton in 1892, with whom he had a daughter, Alice Hamilton Graham. Because he had no male issue, on his death in 1938 the Barony of Atholstan became extinct. His home in Montreal's Golden Square Mile on Sherbrooke Street was incorporated into the Maison Alcan complex in 1983. He is interred with his wife in the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal. Red Fisher (journalist) Saul "Red" Fisher , CM (22 August 1926 – 19 January 2018)

462-504: Was sensational news and scandals, and did not win favour with the educated public of Montreal. After it gained good circulation among workers, Graham, with some business ability, gradually changed it into a respected, powerful, and lucrative newspaper. Graham soon acquired full control of the paper. Later Graham founded two weeklies, the Family Herald and Weekly Star , with a national circulation in rural districts, as well as

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484-412: Was the newspaper's White House correspondent from 1963 until 1973, and then served as the newspaper's managing editor, from 1976 until it closed in 1979. He served under Frank Walker who was editor-in-chief. Montreal newspapers: Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan (July 18, 1848 – January 28, 1938), known as Sir Hugh Graham between 1908 and May 1917,

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