This is a list of early
Canadian
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newspapers
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports ...
.
Canada East (
Quebec
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{{See also, List of Quebec historical newspapers
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Aylmer
Aylmer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Edward Aylmer, Welsh MP
* Edward Aylmer (cricketer), first-class cricketer and Royal Navy officer
* Felix Aylmer, English stage actor
* Sir Fenton Aylmer, 13th Baronet, British Arm ...
**Times
**Ottawa and Pontiac Advertiser
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Drummondville
**Reporter
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Granby
**Eastern Townships Gazette
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Montreal
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**Argus
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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
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 th ...
**Grande Ligne Evangelical Register
**
Montreal Herald
This is a list of defunct newspapers of Quebec.
1770–1799
* ''La Gazette du commerce et littéraire pour la Ville & District de Montréal'', 1778, Montréal, Fleury Mesplet, printer, and Valentin Jautard, editor and journalist
* '' La Gazette ...
**Journal d'Agriculture
**Journal de l'Instruction Publique
**Journal of Education C.E.;Juvenile Presbyterian
**
La Minerve
''La Minerve'' (French for "The Minerva") was a newspaper founded in Montreal, Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) by Augustin-Norbert Morin to promote the political goals of Louis-Joseph Papineau's Parti patriote. It was notably directed by Ludge ...
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La Patrie
**L'Avenir
**
Le Pays
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**Liberal Christian
**Lower Canada Jurist
**Medical Chronicle
**Missionary Record
**Montreal Transcript
**
Montreal Witness
''The Montreal Witness'' was an English-language Protestant newspaper published in Montreal from 1845 to 1938.
Mission and Purpose
The ''Montreal Witness'' was founded in 1845, by John Dougall. In the December 15, 1845 edition of the ''Witne ...
**New Era
**Pilot
**Presbyterian
**Semeur Canadien
**True Witness
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Quebec City
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Le Canadien
''Le Canadien'' () was a French language newspaper published in Lower Canada from November 22, 1806 to March 14, 1810. Its motto was: ''"Nos institutions, notre langue et nos droits"'' (Our institutions, our language, our rights). It was release ...
**
Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph
The ''Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph'', founded by William Brown (c. 1737–1789) as the ''Quebec Gazette'' on 21 June 1764, is the oldest newspaper in North America. It is currently published as an English language weekly from its offices in Queb ...
**Chronicle
**Colonist
**Courier du Canada
**Gazette
**Journal De Quebec
**Mercury
**Military Gazette of Canada
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Le National
**Sinclair's Monthly Circular
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Richmond
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* Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States
* Richmond, London, a part of London
* Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England
* Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada
* Richmond, California, ...
**County Advocate
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Sorel
**Gazette de Sorel
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Stanstead
**Stanstead Journal
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St. Hyacinthe
**Le Courier
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St. Johns
**News
**Frontier Advocate
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Trois Rivières
**Ère Nouvelle
**Inquirer
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Waterloo
**Advertiser
Canada West (
Ontario
Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central C ...
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Alliston
Alliston is a settlement in Simcoe County in the Canadian province of Ontario. It has been part of the Town of New Tecumseth since the 1991 amalgamation of Alliston and nearby villages of Beeton, Tottenham, and the Township of Tecumseth. The pri ...
** Herald 1871
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Arnprior
Arnprior is a town in Renfrew County, in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario, Canada. It is located west of Downtown Ottawa, at the confluence of the Madawaska River and the Ottawa River in the Ottawa Valley. Arnprior has experienced sig ...
** Chronicle 1871
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Arthur
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** Enterprise News 1862
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Ayr
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**Observer
*
Aurora
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** Banner 1853
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Barrie
Barrie is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada, about north of Toronto. The city is within Simcoe County and located along the shores of Kempenfelt Bay, the western arm of Lake Simcoe. Although physically in Simcoe County, Barrie is politically ...
**Herald
**Northern Advance
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Beaverton
**Weekly Post
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Belleville
**Hastings Chronicle
**Intelligencer
*Berlin (
Kitchener)
**Chronicle
**''
Der Deutsche Canadier''
**''
Berliner Journal''
**Telegraph
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Blenheim
**Rond Eau News
**Blenheim News
**Blenheim World
**Blenheim Tribune
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Bowmanville
Bowmanville is a town of approximately 40,000 people located in the Municipality of Clarington, Durham Region, Ontario, Canada. It is approximately east of Toronto, and east of Oshawa along Highway 2. Bowmanville was first incorporated as a to ...
**Canadian Statesman
**Star
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Bradford
**Chronicle
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Brantford
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**Brant County Herald
**Christian Messenger
**Courier
**Expositor
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Brampton
Brampton ( or ) is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Brampton is a city in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and is a lower-tier municipality within Peel Region. The city has a population of 656,480 as of the 2021 Census, making it ...
**Standard
**Times
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Brighton
**Christian Banner
**Weekly Flag
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Brockville
Brockville, formerly Elizabethtown, is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the Thousand Islands region. Although it is the seat of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, it is politically independent of the county. It is included with Le ...
**Monitor
**Recorder
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Caledon
** Enterprise 1888
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Caledonia
**Grand River Sachem
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Carleton Place
Carleton Place is a town in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in Lanark County, about west of downtown Ottawa. It is located at the crossroads of Highway 15 and Highway 7, halfway between the towns of Perth, Almonte, Smiths Falls, and the nation's cap ...
**Herald
** Canadian 1876
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Cayuga
**Sentinel
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Chatham
Chatham may refer to:
Places and jurisdictions Canada
* Chatham Islands (British Columbia)
* Chatham Sound, British Columbia
* Chatham, New Brunswick, a former town, now a neighbourhood of Miramichi
* Chatham (electoral district), New Brunswic ...
**Kent Advertiser
**Planet
**Provincial Freeman
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Cobourg
**Star
**Sun
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Colborne
**Northumberland Pilot
**Transcript
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Collingwood
**Enterprise
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Cornwall
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**Constitutional
**Freeholder
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Dundas
**Warder
**Star News 1883
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Dunville
**Independent
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Elora
**Backwoodsman
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Embrun
**Le Village
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Fergus
**British Constitution
**Freeholder
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Forest
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**Forest Free Press
**Forest Standard
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Fonthill
**Welland Herald
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Galt Galt or GALT may refer to:
Biology and biochemistry
* Galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase, an enzyme
* Gut-associated lymphoid tissue, a subset of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue
People and fictional characters
* Galt (surname), a list o ...
**Dumfries Reformer
**Reporter
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Goderich
**Huron Signal
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Gravenhurst
** Banner 1866
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Guelph
Guelph ( ; 2021 Canadian Census population 143,740) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as "The Royal City", Guelph is roughly east of Kitchener and west of Downtown Toronto, at the intersection of Highway 6, Highway 7 and Wel ...
**Guelph Advertiser
**Guelph Chronicle
**Guelph Herald
**Guelph Weekly Mercury and Advertiser
**Guelph Advocate
**Guelph Daily Mercury 1867
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Hamilton Hamilton may refer to:
People
* Hamilton (name), a common British surname and occasional given name, usually of Scottish origin, including a list of persons with the surname
** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland
** Lord Hamilt ...
**Banner
**Canada Evangelist
**Canada Zeitung (German)
**Canadian Journal of Homeopathy
**Christian Advocate
**Journal and Express
**Spectator c. 1846
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Huntsville
Huntsville is a city in Madison County, Limestone County, and Morgan County, Alabama, United States. It is the county seat of Madison County. Located in the Appalachian region of northern Alabama, Huntsville is the most populous city in th ...
** Forester c. 1877
*
Ingersoll Ingersoll may refer to:
People
*Ingersoll (surname)
*Ingersoll Lockwood (1841–1918), American lawyer and writer
Places Canada
* Ingersoll, Ontario
United States
* Ingersoll, Oklahoma
* Ingersoll, Wisconsin
* Ingersoll Township, Michigan
* ...
**Chronicle
*
Kemptville
Kemptville is a community located in the Municipality of North Grenville in Eastern Ontario, Canada in the northernmost part of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville. It is located approximately south of the downtown core of Ottawa and s ...
**Progressionist
** Advance
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Kincardine
**Western Canadian Commonwealth
**Bruce Reporter
**Bruce Review
**Kincardine Standard
**Kincardine Review
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Kingston
**British Whig
**Chronicle and News
**Commercial Advertiser
**Daily News
**Morning Herald
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Lindsay
**Advocate
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Listowel
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Desc ...
** Banner c. 1866
** Standard 1878
** Atwood Bee 1890-1923
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London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...
**Atlas
**
Canadian Free Press
**Evangelical Witness
**Prototype
*
Markham Markham may refer to:
It may also refer to brand of of clothing which originates from South Africa which saw it's establishment in 1873.
Biology
* Markham's storm-petrel (''Oceanodroma markhami''), a seabird species found in Chile and Colombia
* ...
**Economist c. 1856 - now
Markham Economist & Sun
**Sun c. 1881
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Millbrook
**Messenger
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Merrickville
**Chronicle
**Freemason's Magazine
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Milton
**Halton Journal
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Milverton
** Sun 1891-1992
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Mitchell
Mitchell may refer to:
People
*Mitchell (surname)
*Mitchell (given name)
Places Australia
* Mitchell, Australian Capital Territory, a light-industrial estate
* Mitchell, New South Wales, a suburb of Bathurst
* Mitchell, Northern Territo ...
** Advocate 1860
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Napanee
Greater Napanee is a town in southeastern Ontario, Canada, approximately west of Kingston and the county seat of Lennox and Addington County. It is located on the eastern end of the Bay of Quinte. Greater Napanee municipality was created by a ...
**Reformer, Standard
*
New Hamburg
**Neutrale
**Independent 1878
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Newburg
**Index
*
New Castle
**Recorder
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Newmarket
**New Era c. 1853
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Niagara
**Gleaner and Niagara Newspaper
**Mail
**Upper Canada Guardian; or Freeman's Journal
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Oakville
**Sentinel
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Omemee
**Warder
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Orangeville
** Banner c. 1893
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Orono
**Day Dawn
**Sun
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Oshawa
**Christian Offering, Vindicator
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Ottawa
**Bytown Gazette
**Canada Military Gazette
**
Citizen
**Railway and Commercial Times
**Tribune
*
Owen Sound
Owen Sound ( 2021 Census population 21,612) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. The county seat of Grey County, it is located at the mouths of the Pottawatomi and Sydenham Rivers on an inlet of Georgian Bay.
The primary tourist attractio ...
**Times
*
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
**Star
**
Parry Sound
Parry Sound is a sound or bay of Georgian Bay on Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada. It is highly irregularly shaped with many deep bays and islands. Killbear Provincial Park is located on the large peninsula that separates the sound from Georgian B ...
** North Star c. 1874
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Pembroke
**Observer
*
Penetangore
**Western Canadian Commonwealth
*
Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth i ...
**Bathurst Courier c. 1834 - now Perth Courier
**British Standard
*
Peterborough
Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until ...
**Examiner
**Review
*
Picton
**Gazette
**Times
*
Port DOver
Port Dover is an unincorporated community and former town located in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada, on the north shore of Lake Erie. It is the site of the recurring Friday the 13th motorcycle rally. Prior to the War of 1812, this community ...
**Express
*
Port Hope
**Atlas
**Guide
*
Port Perry
Port Perry is a community located in Scugog, Ontario, Canada. The town is located northeast of central Toronto and north of Oshawa and Whitby. Port Perry has a population of 9,453 as of 2016.
Port Perry serves as the administrative and commerc ...
** The Star c. 1866
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Prescott
**Conservative Messenger
**Telegraph
*
Preston
**Zeitung
*
Renfrew, Ontario
Renfrew is a town on the Bonnechere River in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. Located one hour west of Ottawa in Eastern Ontario, Renfrew is the fourth largest town in the county after Petawawa, Pembroke and Arnprior. The town is a small tra ...
** Mercury c. 1871
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Richmond Hill
**York Ridings Gazette
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Russell
**Russell Reader
*
Sandwich
A sandwich is a food typically consisting of vegetables, sliced cheese or meat, placed on or between slices of bread, or more generally any dish wherein bread serves as a container or wrapper for another food type. The sandwich began as a po ...
**British Canadian
**Voice of the Fugitive
**Maple Leaf
**Windsor Herald
*
Sarnia
Sarnia is a city in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada. It had a Canada 2021 Census, 2021 population of 72,047, and is the largest city on Lake Huron. Sarnia is located on the eastern bank of the junction between the Upper and Lower Great Lakes w ...
**CW
**Observer
**Lambton Advertiser
*
Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke ( ; ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional cou ...
**CE
**Canadian Times
**Gazette
*
Simcoe
**Conservative Standard
**Norfolk Messenger
*
Smith Falls
**Record News c. 1887
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Southampton
Southampton () is a port city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. It is located approximately south-west of London and west of Portsmouth. The city forms part of the South Hampshire built-up area, which also covers Po ...
**Morning Star
*
Stayner
** The Sun c. 1877
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Stratford
**CW
**Beacon
**Examiner
**Perth County News
** Weekly Herald 1863
* Times 1876-1891
*
Streetsville
**Review
*
St. Catharines
**CW
**Constitutional
**Journal
**Post
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St. Marys
**Argus c. 1857
**Journal c. 1893
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St. Thomas
**Despatch
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Thornhill
** Liberal c. 1878
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Thorold
Thorold is a city in Ontario, Canada, located on the Niagara Escarpment. It is also the seat of the Regional Municipality of Niagara. The Welland Canal passes through the city, featuring lock 7 and the Twin Flight Locks.
History
The first s ...
**Gazette
*
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ...
**Agriculturalist
**Canada Church Chronicle
**Canada Gazette
**Canada Sunday School Advocate
**Canadian Ecclesiastical Gazette
**Canadian Independent
**Canadian Journal
**Catholic Citizen
**
Christian Guardian
**
Colonial Advocate
The ''Colonial Advocate'' was a weekly political journal published in Upper Canada during the 1820s and 1830s. First published by William Lyon Mackenzie on May 18, 1824, the journal frequently attacked the Upper Canada aristocracy known as the ...
**Colonist (British Colonist)
**Constitution
**Der Beobachter (The Observer)
**Ecclesiastical and Missionary record
**Echo, and Protestant Episcopal Recorder
**Gospel Tribune
**
Toronto Globe
''The Globe'' was a newspaper in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, founded in 1844 by George Brown as a Reform voice. It merged with '' The Mail and Empire'' in 1936 to form ''The Globe and Mail''.
History
''The Globe'' is pre-dated by a title of the sa ...
**Journal of Education
**Toronto Leader
**Market Review and Weekly Price Current
**Merchant's Magazine
**Toronto Mirror
**Toronto News (Afternoon News)
**Toronto Patriot
**Toronto Times
**Toronto Weekly Message
**Union Baptist
**United Presbyterian Magazine
**Upper Canada Law Journal
*
Walkerton
** Herald-Times c. 1861
*
Wingham, Ontario
Wingham (2016 census population 2,934) is a community located in the municipality of North Huron, Ontario, Canada, which is located in Huron County. Wingham became part of North Huron in 2001 when the Ontario government imposed amalgamation on t ...
** Wingham Advance Times c. 1871
**York Observer
*
Waterloo
**Farmer's Friend (German)
* Record c. 1878
*
Whitby
Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire, England. Situated on the east coast of Yorkshire at the mouth of the River Esk, Whitby has a maritime, mineral and tourist heritage. Its East Clif ...
**Chronicle
**Commonwealth
**Ontario Reporter
*
Windsor
Windsor may refer to:
Places Australia
* Windsor, New South Wales
** Municipality of Windsor, a former local government area
* Windsor, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland
**Shire of Windsor, a former local government authority around Wi ...
**Churchman's Friend
*
Woodstock
Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held during August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, United States, southwest of the town of Woodstock. Billed as "an Aq ...
**Gazetteer
**Sentinel
**Times
See also
*
History of Canadian newspapers
There were five important periods in the history of Canadian newspapers' responsible for the eventual development of the modern newspaper. These are the "Transplant Period" from 1750 to 1800, when printing and newspapers initially came to Canada ...
Early
Economic history of Canada
History of newspapers
History of mass media in Canada