Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph
The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, founded by William Brown (c. 1737–1789) as the Quebec Gazette on 21 June 1764, is the oldest newspaper in North America. It is currently published as an English language weekly from its offices in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Formerly a bilingual French-English publication, the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph celebrated its 250th anniversary in 2014. Origins and history. 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 its masthead, 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. Quebec City is a virtually monolingual francophone city, and the area's anglophone population was too small for the paper to be viable as a daily. 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. On 1 August 2007 it was sold to Peter White, former Hollinger executive and Mr. White sold it to Pierre Little in 2009, a New Brunswick native. In November 2010, majority shares were sold to Ray Stanton of London, Ontario. Claims of seniority. 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 newspaper that still publishes news in Canada. Archive scanning partnership with Google News. 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. Publisher Pierre Little stated that: and that: