La Patrie
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La Patrie was a Montreal
, Quebec
daily newspaper
founded by Honoré Beaugrand
on February 24, 1879. It became a weekly in 1957 and folded in 1978.
Its political affiliation was originally Liberal, but Beaugrand officially broke with the party in 1891 and the paper became deprived of its traditional support group. La Patrie's circulation numbers sagged until Beaugrand, in declining health, sold his newspaper for $50,000 to Joseph-Israël Tarte in 1897.
By the turn of the twentieth century Tarte had turned his new property into an increasingly nonpartisan publication with the city's second-largest circulation for a French-language daily newspaper (topped only by La Presse). The victim of bitter circulation wars against old rival La Presse and the politically connected Montréal-Matin
, La Patrie folded on November 15, 1957 but was survived by a weekly edition under the same name published until April 1978.
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
daily newspaper
Newspaper
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founded by Honoré Beaugrand
Honoré Beaugrand
Honoré Beaugrand was a Quebec journalist, politician, author and folklorist, born in Berthier County, Quebec....
on February 24, 1879. It became a weekly in 1957 and folded in 1978.
Its political affiliation was originally Liberal, but Beaugrand officially broke with the party in 1891 and the paper became deprived of its traditional support group. La Patrie's circulation numbers sagged until Beaugrand, in declining health, sold his newspaper for $50,000 to Joseph-Israël Tarte in 1897.
By the turn of the twentieth century Tarte had turned his new property into an increasingly nonpartisan publication with the city's second-largest circulation for a French-language daily newspaper (topped only by La Presse). The victim of bitter circulation wars against old rival La Presse and the politically connected Montréal-Matin
Montréal-Matin
Montréal-Matin was a Quebec daily newspaper based in Montreal. It was published from 1930 to 1978. It was politically associated to the Conservative Party of Quebec and, afterwards, its successor the Union Nationale...
, La Patrie folded on November 15, 1957 but was survived by a weekly edition under the same name published until April 1978.
External links
- Digitized issues of La Patrie at the National Library of QuebecBibliothèque et Archives nationales du QuébecBibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec is the Crown corporation acting as the provincial library and archives of Quebec...