Halifax Gazette, Canada’s first newspaper, is printed

February 5, 2017

First Issue of the Halifax Gazette. Library and Archives Canada, Amicus 7589124

1752

Published by John Bushell, the weekly Halifax Gazette was the first newspaper in Canada. Beginning only 3 years after the founding of Halifax, the paper would continue until just after Confederation in 1867, when it became the Nova-Scotia Royal Gazette — the official record of legislation in the new province.

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