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August 10, 2004
Early Toronto Newspapers
Early newspapers of Toronto, including a list of titles from 1793 through to 1867, arrives courtesy of "the internet".
The first newspaper published in Toronto appeared on October 4, 1798. Called the Upper Canada Gazette, or American Oracle, it published the activities and decisions of the government. For more than twenty years, the newspaper had no competition. In 1802, the Upper Canada Gazette published the proclamation announcing the Treaty of Amiens to the townspeople. In 1812, Isaac Brock published a proclamation to alert the citizens of York of the possibilities of invasion.
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The Ontario Gazette lives on in the form of the government publication of official notices issued each Saturday, read by me for the office each Monday. The Canada Gazette would have been a merger of the Upper and Lower Canada Gazettes which would have split up again in 1867 with confederation so there is probably a clear enough line of continuity there.
Posted by: Alan at August 10, 2004 03:19 PM