Trefflé Berthiaume (August 4, 1848 – January 2, 1915) was a

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typographer, newspaperman and politician. He was born in Saint-Hugues, Lower Canada as one of the five children of Gédéon Berthiaume and Éléonore Normandin. Berthiaume was only four years old when his father died. In 1859, after his primary schooling, he joined the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe. After school, he was an apprentice to a tailor for more than two years. In 1863, he started training as a typographer, a profession which he worked in for some time. In 1884, he founded the Gebhardt and Berthiaume Lithographing and Printing Company Limited. In 1884, he was a co-founder of the magazine ''Le Monde illustré''. In 1889, he became in charge of the editing, printing, and distribution of the

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'' La Presse''. He became the owner in 1894. What was once "a struggling paper of doubtful prospects", he helped La Presse to become a sensationalistic people's paper with articles on crime reporting, lurid reports with moralistic comments. It once featured drawings of a female murderer's thoughts. He was called to the

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for the division of Alma in 1896 and served until his death in 1915. He died in Montreal in 1915 and is buried in the

Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery (french: Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges) is a rural cemetery located in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal, Quebec, Canada which was founded in 1854. The entrance and the grounds run a ...

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* 1848 births 1915 deaths 19th-century Canadian newspaper publishers (people) Conservative Party of Quebec MLCs People from Montérégie Journalists from Montreal Burials at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery {{Quebec-politician-stub