The ''News and Eastern Townships Advocate'' is a
newspaper
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based in
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu () is a city in eastern Montérégie in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec, about southeast of Montreal. It is situated on the west bank of the Richelieu River at the northernmost naviga ...
,
Quebec
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started on January 27, 1848.
The headquarters for the paper were destroyed in 1942 during a fire, which resulted in the loss of the building and files documenting the company's early history.
The paper was originally named ''The Missisqoui News and Frontier Advocate'' and was based in
Phillipsburg, Ontario
The Township of Wilmot is a rural township in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo in southwestern Ontario, Canada.
History
Archaic and Woodland periods
The earliest concrete evidence of human activity within Wilmot dates to around 8,300 year ...
, but was moved to St Johns in 1850 and renamed to ''Frontier, Advocate''.
References
English-language newspapers published in Quebec
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