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28-700: Launched on February 9, 1897, by businessman Leonard Channell and originally known as the Sherbrooke Daily Record , it is one of the two last surviving English-language daily newspapers in the French-speaking province, the other being the much larger Montreal Gazette . For the past several years, The Record has been a daily community newspaper for the anglophone minority in the Eastern Townships, without comprehensive coverage of national and world news. "Talk", or "Talk of

56-597: A compensation law for Lower Canada. This was among the main events leading to the burning of the Parliament Buildings . Ferres was subsequently arrested, though soon released on bail and set free without trial. In 1939, The Gazette hired its first editorial cartoonist – John Collins , who worked a term of 43 years. In 1968, The Gazette was acquired by the Southam newspaper chain, which owned major dailies across Canada. For many years, The Gazette

84-564: A daily to its current weekly edition format. Quebec City is a virtually monolingual francophone city, and the area's anglophone population was too small for the paper to be viable as a daily. Then as now, its readership came mainly from anglophone provincial government workers and anglophone members of the National Assembly of Quebec . The paper was sold again in 1979 to lawyers David Cannon, Jean Lemelin, Ross Rourke and broadcaster Bob Dawson, who later passed it on to David Cannon. It

112-758: A defendable claim to being the oldest surviving newspaper that still publishes news in Canada. In 2008 the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph joined the Google News microfilm scanning project to make its newspaper archives more accessible via Google's free news archive search service . Publisher Pierre Little stated that: This effort will open up a new world of possibilities for today's Internet users. You can search for everything from news of loved ones of past generations to news of major historical events and that: ... many readers visit

140-613: A loss of 54 full-time and 61 part-time positions at the paper. The August 16, 2014, issue was the final issue printed by the Postmedia-owned facility. On October 21, 2014, The Gazette was relaunched as part of the Postmedia Reimagined project, adopting a similar look, and a similar suite of digital platforms, to its sister paper, the Ottawa Citizen , which had relaunched earlier in the year. As part of

168-461: A new media group, Postmedia , bought The Gazette and other papers from the financially troubled Canwest. To celebrate its 150th anniversary, The Gazette published a facsimile of one of its earliest issues. Much effort was made to use a type of paper that imitated 18th century paper, with fake chainlines and laidlines to make the paper look old. Today, The Gazette ' s audience is primarily Quebec's English-speaking community. The Gazette

196-520: Is Basem Boshra and the associate managing editor is Jeff Blond. On April 30, 2013, Postmedia Network announced that it would be eliminating the role of publisher at each of its newspapers, including The Gazette . Instead, the company's 10 newspapers were overseen by regional publishers, one each for the Pacific, the Prairies and eastern Canada. Alan Allnutt, who was the publisher of The Gazette at

224-461: Is one of the three dailies published in Montreal, the other two being French-language newspapers: Le Journal de Montréal and Le Devoir . ( La Presse is only published digitally since 2018.) In recent years, The Gazette has stepped up efforts to reach bilingual francophone professionals and adjusted its coverage accordingly. The current editor-in-chief is Lucinda Chodan. The deputy editor

252-797: Is the English-language Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph , which was established in 1764 and is published weekly. Fleury Mesplet founded a French-language weekly newspaper called La Gazette du commerce et littéraire, pour la ville et district de Montréal on June 3, 1778. It was the first entirely French-language newspaper in Canada. The paper did not accept advertising aside for the various books that Mesplet also published. The articles were meant to promote discussion, and it focused on literature and philosophy , as well as various anecdotal articles, poems and letters. Benjamin Franklin encouraged Mesplet to found

280-753: The Quebec Gazette on 21 June 1764, is the oldest running newspaper in North America. It is currently published as an English language weekly from its offices in Quebec City , Quebec , Canada. Formerly a bilingual French-English publication, the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph celebrated its 250th anniversary in 2014. Founded as the Quebec Gazette in 1764, it is a descendant of several newspapers published during

308-656: The Montreal Daily News closed in 1989, after less than two years in operation, The Gazette kept its Sunday edition going until August 2010. In 1996, the Southam papers were bought by Conrad Black 's Hollinger Inc. Then in August 2000, Hollinger sold the Southam newspapers, including The Gazette , to Canwest Global Communications Corp. , controlled by the Winnipeg-based Asper family. In 2010,

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336-667: The Quebec Daily Telegraph and the paper was then published under the banner of the Chronicle-Telegraph until 1934, when it added Quebec to its masthead, where it remains to this day. In 1959, the paper was sold to the Thomson Publishing Group (then owned by Canadian media mogul Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet , now part of Thomson Reuters ) which later sold the newspaper to publisher Herb Murphy. In 1972 it went from being

364-627: The FP Publications chain (which owned the Winnipeg Free Press and, at the time, The Globe and Mail ), endured a long strike and ceased publication in 1979, less than a year after the strike was settled. In 1988, a competing English-language daily, the Montreal Daily News , was launched. The Montreal Daily News adopted a tabloid format and introduced a Sunday edition, forcing The Gazette to respond. After

392-570: The Townships", a weekly television, arts and cultural insert, appears every Friday. Periodic sections focus on individual communities and events within the Record's service area. Future Canadian media barons John W. H. Bassett and Conrad Black both got their starts in newspaper ownership as owner and co-owner, respectively, of the Sherbrooke Daily Record . For years The Record was owned by Black's Hollinger International . In January 2006 it

420-592: The left-hand column and English columns in the right-hand column. The columns were originally written in French and translated to English by Valentin Jautard, who served as editor until his death in 1787. The columns were mostly on education, religion, and literature, and after 1788 on politics. Foreign and local news made up the rest of the paper. The paper took a Voltairian and anticlerical stance, wanted Quebec to have its own legislative assembly and sought to import

448-400: The newspaper for several issues, but the paper ceased publication soon after. Two rivals, Louis Roy and Edward Edwards fought over the right to publish the newspaper over the course of two years. Edwards eventually won the printing press and newspaper and continued operations until his assets were seized in 1808. The newspaper was then the property of James Brown for fourteen years. In 1822, it

476-754: The newspaper to persuade Canadians to join the American Revolution . A secret resolution of Congress dispatched Mesplat and his printing equipment to Canada in February 1776 "to establish a free press...for the frequent publication of such pieces as may be of service to the cause of the United Colonies." Mesplet, an immigrant from France, had previously lived in Philadelphia and supported the Americans when they occupied Montreal during

504-682: The past three centuries. Until 1842, the newspaper published editions in both French and English. At its inception it originally began as a weekly, but in May 1832, it began appearing in English on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and in French on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The Quebec Gazette merged with the Morning Chronicle in 1873 to become the Quebec Chronicle and Quebec Gazette . On 25 July 1925 another merger occurred with

532-467: The principles of the French Revolution to Quebec. The newspaper also introduced advertising and announcements, taking up half of four pages. It is the direct ancestor of the current newspaper. The newspaper did well, and Mesplet's operation moved to Notre-Dame Street in 1787. Mesplet continued to operate the newspaper until his death in 1794. Following Mesplet's death, his widow published

560-618: The relaunch, the paper was officially renamed the Montreal Gazette , reflecting its longstanding common name outside its city of publication (as well as its Web domain, montrealgazette.com ). The paper had not included Montreal in its masthead in several years. With its December 1, 2023 issue, The Gazette once again dropped "Montreal" from its masthead and returned to its pre-2014 name and logo. Montreal newspapers: Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph , founded by William Brown (c. 1737–1789) as

588-629: The second half of the 20th century. It is one of the French-speaking province's last two English-language dailies; the other is the Sherbrooke Record , which serves the anglophone community in Sherbrooke and the Eastern Townships southeast of Montreal. Founded in 1778 by Fleury Mesplet , The Gazette is Quebec's oldest daily newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper in Canada. The oldest newspaper overall

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616-644: The time, became the regional publisher of Postmedia's Alberta and Saskatchewan papers. Gerry Nott, publisher of the Ottawa Citizen , now also oversees The Gazette , the Windsor Star and Postmedia's flagship title, the National Post . On May 5, 2014, it was announced that printing of The Gazette would be contracted out to Transcontinental Media in August 2014 and that the existing Notre-Dame-de-Grâce facility would be closed, resulting in

644-471: The war. The newspaper was shut down in 1779 when Mesplet and the editor, Valentin Jautard , were arrested for sedition and imprisoned for three years. Mesplet began a second weekly, The Montreal Gazette / La Gazette de Montréal , on August 25, 1785, which had a dual French-English bilingual format similar to that used by the Quebec Gazette . Its offices were located in the house of Joseph Lemoyne de Longueuil on rue de la Capitale. French columns were in

672-500: Was caught in a three-way fight for the English newspaper audience in Montreal with the tabloid Montreal Herald and the broadsheet Montreal Star . The Gazette was second in circulation to the Montreal Star , which sold more newspapers in the city and had a significant national reputation in the first half of the 20th century. The Montreal Herald closed in 1957, after publishing for 146 years. The Montreal Star , part of

700-759: Was eventually purchased and in June 2000 the newspaper moved into its current location on rue Galt Est, in Sherbrooke. Montreal Gazette The Gazette , also known as the Montreal Gazette , is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper which is owned by Postmedia Network . It is published in Montreal , Quebec, Canada. It is the only English-language daily newspaper currently published in its eponymous city. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during

728-531: Was purchased by Alta Newspaper Group , a partnership of Glacier Ventures International and former Hollinger executive David Radler . In January 1999, a fire broke out in The Record ' s offices, which were located on rue Delorme in Sherbrooke. The building and its contents, including the newspapers computers and presses, suffered heavy losses. The newspaper was temporarily moved to a location in nearby Lennoxville without its own press. A replacement press

756-467: Was sold to businessman Thomas Andrew Turner who converted into an English-only paper in 1822. Under Turner, The Gazette identified with the interests of anglophone business leaders in their fight with the Patriote movement . On April 25, 1849, The Gazette published a special edition in which its editor-in-chief, James Moir Ferres , called the " Anglo-Saxon " residents to arms after Royal Assent of

784-460: Was then bought by Karen Macdonald and François Vézina on 1 January 1993. On 1 August 2007 it was sold to Peter White , former Hollinger executive and Mr. White sold it to Pierre Little in 2009, a New Brunswick native. In November 2010, majority shares were sold to Ray Stanton of London, Ontario. The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph claims to be North America's oldest newspaper due to the following: The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph therefore has

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