Montreal Star

The Montreal Star was an English-language Canadian newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec. It folded in 1979 after an eight-month pressmen's strike.

It was Canada's Largest Newspaper until the 1950's.

The paper was founded on January 16, 1869 by Hugh Graham and George T. Lanigan as the Montreal Evening Star.

In 1925, Graham sold the Montreal Star to John Wilson McConnell. Two other newspapers, the Montreal Standard and Family Herald, were under the same ownership.

In 1951, the Montreal Star launched its Weekend Magazine supplement, with an initial circulation of 900,000.[1]

After McConnell's death, the Montreal Star was acquired by the FP newspaper group, which also owned The Globe and Mail and the Winnipeg Free Press.

After the Montreal Star folded, Gazette became the sole English daily in Montreal. The Star had consistently out-sold The Gazette until the strike but did not regain its dominance when it resumed publishing. The Gazette acquired the Star's building and presses.

Notable contributors

It was the first newspaper in Canada to employ a staff editorial cartoonist, when it hired Henri Julien in 1888. [2]

Other contributors of note included Red Fisher, Doris Giller, Nick Auf der Maur, Terry Mosher and Dennis Trudeau.

References

• "A Star Is Shorn". TIME Magazine. 1979. Retrieved March 13. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)