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

1800–1819

The British American Register, 1802, Quebec City, John Neilson, owner and publisherQuebec Mercury, 1804, Quebec City, Thomas Cary, ownerL'Almanach des dames, 1806, Louis Plamondon, editorLe Canadien 1806, Quebec City, Pierre Bédard, François Blanchet and Jean-Thomas TaschereauCourier de Québec, 1807, Quebec City, Pierre-Amable de Bonne and Joseph-François Perrault, founders, Pierre-Édouard Desbarats, printer, Jacques Labrie, editorCanadian courant and Montreal Advertiser, 1807, Montréal, Nahum Mower, owner and editorLa Gazette canadienne/The Canadian Gazette, 1807, Montréal, Charles Brown, publisher and James Brown, editorLe Vrai Canadien, 1810, Quebec City, Pierre-Amable de Bonne

1820–1829

L'Ami de la religion et du roi, 1820, Trois-Rivières, Ludger DuvernayThe Enquirer, 1821, Quebec CityThe Scribbler, 1821, Montréal, Samuel Hull Wilcocke, owner and editor, J. Lame, printerLa Gazette canadienne, 1822, Montréal, Jonh QuilliamThe Canadian Spectator, 1822, John Jones, editor, Jocelyn Waller, journalistThe Canadian Times and Weekly Literary and Political Reporter, 1823, Ariel Bowman, printer, Edward Vernon Sparhawk, editorChristian Register, 1823, MontréalBritish Colonist and St-Françis Gazette, 1823, Stanstead, S. H. DickersonLe Constitutionnel, 1823, Ludger Duvernay, owner, editor and journalistThe Canadian Magazine and Literary Repository, 1823, Montréal, Joseph Nickless, owner, David Chisholmes and Alexander James Christie, directorsThe Canadian Review and Literary and Historical Journal, 1824, Montréal, Henry H. Cunningham, owner, David Chisholmes, directorLa Bibliothèque canadienne, ou miscellanées historiques, scientifiques et littéraires 1825, Montréal, Michel Bibaud and Joseph-Marie BellengerLa Minerve, 1826, Montréal, Augustin-Norbert Morin, founder, owner, printer and journalistL'Argus, Journal electorique, 1826, Trois-Rivières, Ludger DuvernayLa Gazette de Saint-Philippe, 1826, Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie, F-X Pigeon, founderJournal de médecine de Québec, 1826, Quebec City, Xavier TessierThe Christian Sentinel and Anglo-Canadian Churchman's Magazine, 1827L'Électeur-The Elector, 1827, François LemaîtreThe Irish Vindicator and Canada General Advertiser, 1828, Montréal, Daniel Tracey, founder, editor, printer and journalistJournal des sciences naturelles, 1828, Quebec City, maybe Xavier TessierLe 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, printerLe Magasin du Bas-Canada, Journal littéraire et scientifique 1832, Montréal, Michel Bibaud, Ludger Duvernay, printerL'Ami du peuple, de l'ordre et des lois 1832, Montréal, the sulpiciens, John Jones, Pierre-Édouard LeclèreMontreal Vindicator, 1832, Montréal, Édouard-Raymond Fabre, owner, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, journalistThe Montreal Museum or Journal of Literature and Arts, 1832, Montréal, Mary Graddon Gosselin, editor, Ludger Duvernay, printerL'Écho du pays, 1833, Saint-Charles, Pierre-Dominique Debartzch, founder, Alfred-Xavier Rambau, journalistL'Abeille canadienne, 1833, Quebec City, François-Xavier Garneau, founder, editor and J-B Fréchette, printerL'Impartial, 1834, LaprairieLe Glaneur, journal littéraire, d’agriculture et d’industrie, 1836, Saint-Charles Le Télégraphe, 1836, Quebec City, Philippe-Ignace François Aubert de Gaspé and Napoléon Aubin, founders and editorsLe Populaire, 1837, Montréal, Clément-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury, Léon Gosselin, Pierre-Dominique Debartzch, Hyacinthe Leblanc de Marconnay, chief editorLe Fantasque, 1837, Quebec City, Napoléon Aubin, founder and editorLe Libéral, 1837, Quebec CityLa Quotidienne, 1837, Montréal, François LemaîtreLe Temps, 1838, MontréalThe Literary Garland, 1838, MontréalL'Aurore des Canadas, Journal littéraire, politique et commercial, 1839, Montréal, Joseph-Guillaume Barthe, editor

1840–1899

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

1900–1989

Le Nationaliste, 1904Montreal Standard, 1905–1951 , Matane, 1911The Monitor, Montreal, 1926 L'Illustration, 1930, Montréal