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March 23, 1752: Canada's first newspaper, the Halifax Gazette, by John Bushell
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the Quebec Gazette was the longesr surviving newspaper in North America. Also known as the Quebec Telegraph-Chronicle
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Kingston Gazette, established by Stephen Miles, 1810;
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the Colonial Advocate, established by William Lyon Mackenzie, 1824-1834.
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In 1835, Joseph Howe undertook his own defence after being brought to trial for having published a scathing criticism of the Halifax police and magistrates in his paper, the Nova Scotian
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Toronto Globe, established by George Brown in 1844
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the Bytown Packet, established by William Harris in 1844, now The Ottawa Citizen
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The Montreal Gazette was founded in 1855 by P.D. Ross.
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founded on January 16, 1869 by Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan and George T. Lanigan as the Montreal Evening Star
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founded in 1876 by publisher John Ross Robertson
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founded in 1885 by A. Woodburn as the Ottawa Evening Journal
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a metropolitan daily newspaper serving Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada from January 28, 1890 to August 27, 1980. The paper was founded by R.L. Richardson and D.L. McIntyre
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In 1900, over-all newspaper circulation stood at 650,000. Eleven years later, that figure had more than doubled.
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In 1917, Canadian newspapers banded together to form The Canadian Press, a news-gathering co-operative which ensured that stories at one end of the country would be available to papers at the other end. For the first time, the Canadian reader was in close and immediate touch with events all over the world through the telegraph wire.
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In 1938, the number of general interest daily newspapers reached a peak of 138, subsiding to 87 in 1945, then rising steadily into the 1970s
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Canada's second national newapaper
