Journalistic coverage of noteworthy or interesting news events of municipal, provincial and national significance in Montreal, Quebec and the metropolitan vicinity in the period from 1937 to 1985, including, for example, coverage of elections, civic activities, conventions and conferences, the second World War, the Quiet Revolution, Expo 67, the 1976 Olympics, etc., sports stories (e.g. Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Royals, Montreal Expos, Montreal Alouettes, and many other national, provincial and local sports teams), and feature stories on culture, fashion, heritage, politics, labour, etc. (e.g. fashion shows, AIDS research, anti-nuclear demonstrations, civic activism, the arts), taken from Montreal Gazette Files. Not all negatives produced and or published by the Montreal Gazette during this period are included, as some of have been retained by the Gazette Library and by individual photographers.
Gazette (Montréal, Québec) : The Gazette was founded by the publisher Fleury Mesplet as a French-language newspaper in 1778 in Montreal, Quebec. In the late 1700s, the newspaper began publishing bilingually, and by 1822 it had completed the switch to publishing exclusively in English. The newspaper is one of the oldest continuously-published papers in North America. Until 1968, it was independently-owned and operated, but in that year, it became part of the Southam Chain of newspapers. In 1978, with the demise of the Montreal Star, it became the dominant English-language newspaper in Montreal, and in Quebec as a whole, a position it continues to occupy up to the present. Currently the newspaper reaches more than 75% of all anglophone households in Montreal. website: < 2822175 2822176
