Photo montage showing Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph's old offices at 27 Buade Street. The Chronicle-Telegraph sign is hidden under an awning on du Tresor Street |
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| Type | Weekly Newspaper |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Pierre Little |
| Editor | Pierre Little |
| Founded | 1 June 1764 |
| Headquarters | 1040 Belvédère, suite 218, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada |
| ISSN | 0226-9252 |
| Official website | The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph |
The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, founded by William Brown (c. 1737–1789) as the Quebec Gazette on 21 June 1764, claims to be the oldest newspaper in North America. It is currently published as an English language weekly from its offices at 1040 Belvedere, suite 218, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Formerly a bilingual French-English publication, the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph celebrated its 245th anniversary in 2009.
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Founded as the Quebec Gazette in 1764, it is a descendant of several newspapers published during the past three centuries. Until 1842, the newspaper published editions in both French and English. At its inception it originally began as a weekly, but in May 1832, it began appearing in English on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and in French on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The Quebec Gazette merged with the Morning Chronicle in 1873 to become the Quebec Chronicle and Quebec Gazette.
On 25 July 1925 another merger occurred with the Quebec Daily Telegraph and the paper was then published under the banner of the Chronicle-Telegraph until 1934, when it added 'Quebec' to the front of its name, where it remains to this day.
In 1959, the paper was sold to the Thomson Publishing Group (then owned by Canadian media mogul Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, now part of Thomson Reuters) which later sold the newspaper to publisher Herb Murphy. In 1972 it went from being a daily to its current weekly edition format.
The paper was sold again in 1979 to lawyers David Cannon, Jean Lemelin, Ross Rourke and broadcaster Bob Dawson, who later passed it on to David Cannon. it was then bought by Karen Macdonald and François Vézina on 1 January 1993. It was sold 1 August 2007 and as of that time its new owner and publisher is Pierre Little, a New Brunswick native.[1]
The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph claims to be North-America's oldest newspaper due to the following:
The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph therefore has a defendable claim to being the oldest surviving newspaper that still publishes news in Canada, and the oldest in North America with 'continuous corporate bona fide buyouts' from proprietors to newer successors. No other newspaper has made this claim in North America and possibly the New World.
In 2008 the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph joined the Google News microfilm scanning project to make its newspaper archives more accessible via Google's free news archive search service.[3]
Publisher Pierre Little stated that:
and that: