C. F. Hamilton
Colonel Charles Frederick Hamilton (1879–1933) was a Canadian intelligence officer and newspaper journalist. Hamilton was born in Roslin, Ontario, in 1879, and later graduated from Queen's University at Kingston, Queen's University As a journalist, Hamilton first worked for ''The Toronto World'', and from 1899 to 1902, at the Toronto Globe, where he covered the Boer War and "scooped" coverage of the Battle of Paardeberg. He later worked at the Toronto News. He co-authored a biography of George Monro Grant, ''Principal Grant'', in 1904. During World War I, Hamilton served as a deputy chief censor, where he focused largely on cablegrams and radio traffic. Following the war, in 1919, he returned to the Royal North-West Mounted Police, where he was made intelligence liaison, and became the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's first intelligence officer. There he penned influential reports on naval policy and voiced concern about a military threat from Japan in the 1920s. He served ...
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Montreal Gazette
The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during 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 Canada's oldest daily newspaper still in publication. The oldest newspaper overall is the English-language ''Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph'', which was established in 1764 and is published weekly. History 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 i ...
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