// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was the Quebec newspaper defunct? It folded.

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'', 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