Facts about newspapers

Highest circulation for Canadian newspapers

1. The Toronto Star
2. The Globe and Mail
3. Le journal de Montréal
4. The Vancouver Sun
5. The Toronto Sun
6. La presse
7. The Edmonton Journal
8. The Ottawa Citizen
9. The Vancouver Province
10. The Montreal Gazette

Source: Canadian Advertising Rates & Data. -- July 1995. -- Audit Bureau of Circulations, 1994. (Statistics based on Monday-to-Friday.)

General information about newspapers

Oldest

Post och Inrikes Tidningar. -- Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, 1645.

Largest

New York times. -- Sunday, October 17, 1965. -- 15 sections, 946 pages; 7 1/2 lbs., 3.40 kg.

Smallest

Daily banner, Roseberg, Oregon. -- February 1, 2, 1876. (surviving) -- 3 X 3 3/4 inches; 7.6 X 9.5 cm.

First Canadian newspaper

Halifax gazette. -- March 23, 1752.

First French-Canadian newspaper

Le canadien. (Québec and Montréal) -- November, 1806.

Longest-running newspaper in Canada and the United States

The Quebec Gazette / La gazette de Québec. -- 1764. -- now Chronicle-Telegraph.

First daily published in Canada

Daily advertiser, Montréal. -- May 14, 1833.

First ethnic newspaper in Canada

Die Welt, und Neuschottländische Correspondenz, Halifax. -- January 1788.

Oldest weekly newspaper

Cobourg star, Cobourg, Ontario. -- 1831. -- now Cobourg Sentinel Star.

Sources: Colombo, John Robert. -- 99 Questions about Canada. -- Toronto : Doubleday Canada Limited, 1989 -- p. 316.
"The foreign-language press in Canada", Press Review : a review of the press in Canada other than English and French. -- vol. 2, no. 9 (May 1, 1954). -- Ottawa : Citizenship and Immigration, 1954.
The Guinness book of records 1994. -- London : Guinness Publishing, c. 1993. -- pp. 165-166.
Le livre Guinness des records 1990. -- Paris : Le Livre Guinness des Records, c. 1989. -- pp. 165-166.