List of early Canadian newspapers

This is a list of early Canadian newspapers. This includes newspapers in all the former colonies now a part of Canada, which published prior to the War of 1812. The earliest Canadian newspaper was the Halifax Gazette which first published on 23 March 1752,[1] followed by other newspapers in what are now the Maritimes and Quebec.

Canada East (Quebec)

  • Aylmer
    • Times
    • Ottawa and Pontiac Advertiser
  • Drummondville
    • Reporter
  • Granby
    • Eastern Townships Gazette
  • Montreal
    • Argus
    • Bank-note Reporter
    • Canada Insurance Gazette
    • Canada Temperance Advocate
    • Canadian Mail
    • Canadian Naturalist and Geologist
    • Canadian Presbyterian
    • Canadian Railroad and Steamboat Guide
    • Commercial Advertiser
    • Farmer's Journal
    • Montreal Gazette
    • Grande Ligne Evangelical Register
    • Montreal Herald
    • Journal d'Agriculture
    • Journal de l'Instruction Publique
    • Journal of Education C.E.;Juvenile Presbyterian
    • La Minerve
    • La Patrie
    • L'Avenir
    • Le Pays
    • Liberal Christian
    • Lower Canada Jurist
    • Medical Chronicle
    • Missionary Record
    • Montreal Transcript
    • Montreal Witness
    • New Era
    • Pilot
    • Presbyterian
    • Semeur Canadien
    • True Witness
  • Quebec City
    • Le Canadien
    • Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph
    • Chronicle
    • Colonist
    • Courier du Canada
    • Gazette
    • Journal De Quebec
    • Mercury[2]
    • Military Gazette of Canada
    • Le National
    • Sinclair's Monthly Circular
  • Richmond
    • County Advocate
  • Sorel
    • Gazette de Sorel
  • Stanstead
    • Stanstead Journal
  • St. Hyacinthe
    • Le Courier
  • St. Johns
    • News
    • Frontier Advocate
  • Trois Rivières
    • Ère Nouvelle
    • Inquirer
  • Waterloo
    • Advertiser

Canada West (Ontario)

Photo of the remains of a copy of Embrun's Le Village Newspaper's August 27th, 1883 edition.

New Brunswick

  • Saint John
    • The Royal St. John Gazette, 1783–1784[2]
    • Nova Scotia Intelligencer, 1783–1784[2]
    • The Royal Gazette, 1785–1814[2]
    • St. John Advertiser, 1785–1814[2]
    • The Saint-John Gazette, 1786–1799[2]
    • The Saint John Gazette, 1803–1807[2]
    • The Time; or True Briton, 1808–1810[2]

Nova Scotia

See also

References

  1. ^ a b MacQuarrie, David (27 February 2009). "Black and white and red all over, newspapers bleed cash as revenues shrink". CBC News. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Harrison, Lane. "Read all about it, 270-year-old N.B. newspapers go digital". CBC News. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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