Montreal Standard
The Montreal Standard, later known as The Standard, was a national weekly pictorial newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, founded by Hugh Graham. It operated from 1905 to 1951. History. The Standard began publishing in 1905 as a Saturday-only newspaper on the model of the "Illustrated London News". This format continued during World War I and World War II. Through time, the "Standard" reduced its size from broadsheet to tabloid, and it became more of a feature-oriented weekly emphasizing feature writing, recipes, fiction, cartoons and, increasingly, illustrations and photographs over news items. In 1925, Graham sold the  paper, along with other media properties including the "Montreal Star", to John Wilson McConnell. "The Standard" was available in Montreal as a free weekend supplement to the "Montreal Star" and nationally through subscription and newsstands and was a rival to the Toronto-based "Star Weekly". In 1947, the "Standard" wooed away popular cartoonist Jimmy Frise from the "Star Weekly" but as the "Star Weekly" retained the rights to the name of Frise's popular "Birdseye Center" comic strip, the cartoon was renamed "Juniper Junction". Another comic strip, "Doug Wright's Family", was launched at the Standard in 1949. In 1951 , the "Standard" was changed to a magazine format and relaunched as "Weekend Picture Magazine" (later "Weekend") that was distributed across Canada as a weekend supplement to local newspapers. As "Weekend" the publication focussed on feature writing, photography and comics and dropped the Standard's news and fiction components. Notable contributors to the newspaper include Mavis Gallant, who was on staff as a feature reporter from 1944 to 1950, and Lawrence Earl, who was a war correspondent and photojournalist for the paper during World War II.