The Gazette Office Was Subsequently Removed To
Parloir Street, And Eventually Settled Down For Many A Long Year At The
Corner of Mountain Hill, half-way up, facing Break-Neck steps, - the
house was, with many others, removed in 1850
To widen Mountain Street.
According to a tradition published in the Gazette of the 2nd May, 1848,
the prospectus of this paper had, it would appear, been printed in the
printing office of Benjamin Franklin.
This venerable sheet, which had existed one hundred and ten years, when it
was merged, in 1874, by purchase of the copyright, into the Morning
Chronicle, in its early days, was nearly the sole exponent of the wants -
of the gossip (in prose and in verse) - and of the daily events of Quebec.
As such, though, from the standard of to-day, it may seem quaint and puny,
still it does not appear an untruthful mirror of social life in the
ancient capital. Its centenary number of June, 1864, with the fyles of
the Gazette for 1783, have furnished the scholarly author of the
"Prophecy of Merlin," John S. Reade, with material for an excellent sketch
of this pioneer of Canadian journalism, of which our space will permit us
to give but some short extracts: -
"The first number of the Quebec Gazette, judged by the fac-simile
before me, was a very unpretending production. It consists of four
folio pages, two columns to each page, with the exception of the
'Printer's Address to the Public,' which takes up the full width of
the page, and is written in French and English, the matter in both
languages being the same, with the exception of a Masonic
advertisement, which is in English only.
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