List of defunct newspapers of Quebec

This is a list of defunct newspapers of Quebec presented in order of first appearance.

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 de Montréal/The Montreal Gazette , 1785, Montréal, Fleury Mesplet, printer
• Le Courier de Québec ou héraut francois, 1788, Quebec City, William Moore, editor, and James Tanswell, collaborator
• Quebec Herald and Universal Miscellany, 1788, Quebec City, William Moore, editor, and James Tanswell, collaborator
• Le Magasin de Quebec/The Quebec Magazine, 1792, Quebec City, Samuel Neilson, printer and editor
• Le Cours du tems, 1794, Quebec City, John Jones and William Vondenvelden

1800–1819

• The British American Register , 1802, Quebec City, John Neilson, owner and publisher
• Quebec Mercury , 1804, Quebec City, Thomas Cary, owner
• L'Almanach des dames , 1806, Louis Plamondon, editor
• Le Canadien 1806, Quebec City, Pierre Bédard, François Blanchet and Jean-Thomas Taschereau
• Courier de Québec , 1807, Quebec City, Pierre-Amable de Bonne and Joseph-François Perrault, founders, Pierre-Édouard Desbarats, printer, Jacques Labrie, editor
• Canadian courant and Montreal Advertiser , 1807, Montréal, Nahum Mower, owner and editor
• La Gazette canadienne/The Canadian Gazette , 1807, Montréal, Charles Brown, publisher and James Brown, editor
• Le Vrai Canadien, 1810, Quebec City, Pierre-Amable de Bonne
• ''The Montreal Herald''  [ fr ], 1811, Montréal, William Gray and Mungo Kay, founders, owners and publishers
• Le Spectateur canadien , 1815, Charles-Bernard Pasteur, owner, editor and publisher
• The Canadian Inspector , 1815, Montréal, Nahum Mower, publisher
• The Quebec Telegraph , 1816
• L'Aurore , 1817, Montréal, Michel Bibaud and Joseph Victor Delorme
• Gazette des Trois-Rivières , 1817, Trois-Rivières, Ludger Duvernay, founder, printer and editor
• L'Abeille canadienne , 1818, Montréal, Henri-Antoine Mézière
• Le Courrier du Bas-Canada , Montréal, 1819, Joseph Victor Delorme, founder, printer, and Michel Bibaud, editor journalist

1820–1829

• L'Ami de la religion et du roi , 1820, Trois-Rivières, Ludger Duvernay
• The Enquirer , 1821, Quebec City
• The Scribbler , 1821, Montréal, Samuel Hull Wilcocke, owner and editor, J. Lame, printer
• La Gazette canadienne , 1822, Montréal, Jonh Quilliam
• The Canadian Spectator , 1822, John Jones, editor, Jocelyn Waller, journalist
• The Canadian Times and Weekly Literary and Political Reporter , 1823, Ariel Bowman, printer, Edward Vernon Sparhawk, editor
• Christian Register , 1823, Montréal
• British Colonist and St-Françis Gazette , 1823, Stanstead, S. H. Dickerson
• Le Constitutionnel , 1823, Ludger Duvernay, owner, editor and journalist
• The Canadian Magazine and Literary Repository , 1823, Montréal, Joseph Nickless, owner, David Chisholmes and Alexander James Christie, directors
• The Canadian Review and Literary and Historical Journal , 1824, Montréal, Henry H. Cunningham, owner, David Chisholmes, director
• La Bibliothèque canadienne, ou miscellanées historiques, scientifiques et littéraires 1825, Montréal, Michel Bibaud and Joseph-Marie Bellenger
• La Minerve , 1826, Montréal, Augustin-Norbert Morin, founder, owner, printer and journalist
• L'Argus, Journal electorique , 1826, Trois-Rivières, Ludger Duvernay
• La Gazette de Saint-Philippe , 1826, Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie, F-X Pigeon, founder
• Journal de médecine de Québec , 1826, Quebec City, Xavier Tessier
• The Christian Sentinel and Anglo-Canadian Churchman's Magazine , 1827
• L'Électeur-The Elector , 1827, François Lemaître
• The Irish Vindicator and Canada General Advertiser , 1828, Montréal, Daniel Tracey, founder, editor, printer and journalist
• Journal des sciences naturelles , 1828, Quebec City, maybe Xavier Tessier
• Le coin du feu , 1829, Montréal, Madame Raoul Dandurand, founder & editor; Jacques Labrie and Augustin-Norbert Morin

1830–1839

• L'Observateur 1830, Michel Bibaud, Ludger Duvernay, printer
• Le Magasin du Bas-Canada, Journal littéraire et scientifique 1832, Montréal, Michel Bibaud, Ludger Duvernay, printer
• L'Ami du peuple, de l'ordre et des lois 1832, Montréal, the sulpiciens, John Jones, Pierre-Édouard Leclère
• Montreal Vindicator , 1832, Montréal, Édouard-Raymond Fabre, owner, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, journalist
• The Montreal Museum or Journal of Literature and Arts , 1832, Montréal, Mary Graddon Gosselin, editor, Ludger Duvernay, printer
• L'Écho du pays , 1833, Saint-Charles, Pierre-Dominique Debartzch, founder, Alfred-Xavier Rambau, journalist
• L'Abeille canadienne , 1833, Quebec City, François-Xavier Garneau, founder, editor and J-B Fréchette, printer
• L'Impartial , 1834, Laprairie
• Le Glaneur, journal littéraire, d’agriculture et d’industrie , 1836, Saint-Charles (replaces L'Écho du pays)
• Le Télégraphe , 1836, Quebec City, Philippe-Ignace François Aubert de Gaspé and Napoléon Aubin, founders and editors
• Le Populaire , 1837, Montréal, Clément-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury, Léon Gosselin, Pierre-Dominique Debartzch, Hyacinthe Leblanc de Marconnay, chief editor
• Le Fantasque , 1837, Quebec City, Napoléon Aubin, founder and editor
• Le Libéral , 1837, Quebec City
• La Quotidienne , 1837, Montréal, François Lemaître
• Le Temps , 1838, Montréal
• The Literary Garland , 1838, Montréal
• L'Aurore des Canadas, Journal littéraire, politique et commercial , 1839, Montréal, Joseph-Guillaume Barthe, editor

1840–1899

• L'Avenir , 1847
• Le Pays , 1852
• Canadian Illustrated News , Montreal, 1869
• The Montreal Evening Star , later The Montreal Star , 1869
• Le Cultivateur, Quebec City, 1974
• The Gazette Megantic Edition, Inverness, 1899–1911

1900–1989

• Le Nationaliste , 1904
• Montreal Standard , 1905–1951 (became Weekend )
• Le Cri de l'Est , Matane, 1911
• The Monitor , Montreal, 1926 (converted to online-only in 2009)
• L'Illustration , 1930, Montréal (also known as L'Illustration Nouvelle and Montréal-Matin)
• Dimanche-Matin , 1954, Montreal
• Sunday Express , circa 1973, Montreal
• Le Jour , 1974, Saint-Laurent
• Montreal Daily News , 1988, Montreal

References

• http://www.unites.uqam.ca/arche/alaq/index.php?nomLien=603
• http://www.bib.umontreal.ca/CS/livre-savant/imprime/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20060505231757/http://www.lac-bac.gc.ca/8/18/r18-215-e.html