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This is a list of early Canadian newspapers.This includes newspapers in all the former colonies now a part of Canada, which published prior to the War of 1812.The earliest Canadian newspaper was the Halifax Gazette which first published on 23 March 1752, [1] followed by other newspapers in what are now the Maritimes and Quebec.
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf , gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
The word maritime is an adjective that means of the sea; from Latin maritimus "of the sea, near the sea", from mare "sea". Thus any land adjacent to the sea can be considered maritime. But the term Maritimes has historically been collectively applied to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, all of which border the Atlantic Ocean.
There were five important periods in the history of Canadian newspapers' responsible for the eventual development of the modern newspaper. These are the "Transplant Period" from 1750 to 1800, when printing and newspapers initially came to Canada as publications of government news and proclamations; followed by the "Partisan Period from 1800–1850," when individual printers and editors played ...
Humans have been present in the Canadian Maritime provinces for 10,600 years. In spite of being the first part of Canada to be settled by Europeans, research into the prehistory of the Maritimes did not become extensive until 1969. By the early 1980s, several full-time archaeologists focused on the region. [1]
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In 1988, New Brunswick Broadcasting established a new television station in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CIHF-TV (branded as Maritime Independent Television, or MITV). It serviced the Halifax region and some of its programming was rebroadcast to CHSJ-TV stations in Moncton, Fredericton and Saint John.
CJCB and CKCW simulcast CJCH for most of the day, but air separate commercials and local telethons. CKLT is a full repeater of CKCW. However, all four stations are separately licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Station information and history is discussed in each station's own article.