| Newspaper Name: |
Montreal Gazette |
| Newspaper name in English: |
The Montreal Newspaper |
| Alternative Names: |
The Gazette, La Gazette du commerce et littéraire, pour la ville et district de Montréal |
| Owner: |
Postmedia Network |
| Country / Region: |
Canada (Montreal, Quebec) |
| Language: |
English |
| Format type: |
Newspaper |
| Category: |
General |
| Political alignment: |
None |
| Frequency: |
Daily |
| Publication Years (print version): |
1778 — now (245 years) |
| ISSN: |
0384-1294 |
| Circulation: |
116,000 (2015) |
| Official Pages: |
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| Official Apps: |
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| Website: |
montrealgazette.com [read with translation] |
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«The Montreal Gazette», formerly known simply as «The Gazette», is the leading daily city newspaper in the Canadian city of Montreal. Today, it is the only English-language newspaper in the province of Quebec (the rest are published in French). One of the oldest publications in Canada, the newspaper was founded in 1778 under the title «La Gazette du commerce et littéraire, pour la ville et district de Montréal», first published in French, thus becoming the first French-language newspaper in Canada. It was a literary and philosophical weekly, which published poems, short stories, humorous feuilletons, the newspaper did not ignore politics, criticized the authorities, for which, in general, it was soon closed.
The newspaper was able to continue its publication only in 1785, it was completely reorganized and renamed the «Montreal Gazette» (La Gazette de Montréal). In fact, it was now a bilingual newspaper, published simultaneously in English and French, published news borrowed from European and American newspapers, and published literature reviews. Each page of the newspaper was divided into two parts, on one side news was printed in English, on the other — translated and adapted into French. Until the end of the XVIII century, the newspaper was a monopoly in Montreal, but with the beginning of the new one, when the active development of the printing business began, it lost its leadership in the region. In 1825, it switched entirely to English, becoming a traditional regional publication that represented the interests of Anglophone businessmen. Already in the XX century, the newspaper was waiting for a new period of growth, by the end of which it remained the only one in Montreal (and in all of Quebec), having outlived all its competitors (the Montreal Herald, Montreal Star, Montreal Daily News).
Structure of the daily issue of the newspaper: Section A (city, local, regional, national, international news, discussions, analytics, author's notes, readers' letters, business news, sports, cultural events); Section B (depending on the day of the week) (sports, business, food, cinema); Section C (on Mondays) (ads, car market).
