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29-580: As a boy he was in the Anglican church choir. His parents also enrolled him in piano lessons which continued into his early teen years. His first band was the Cool Cats, a high school band. He was with Natural Gas, playing at The Laugh In in Victoria Street, Montreal in early 1970 when was noted by a reviewer for Montreal newspaper The Gazzette that his stage act could range from a frantic singing and dancing of

58-410: A James Brown to a laid back balladeer. He has been referred to as "The Blue Eyed Prince. The biggest influence on his career was Domenic Troiano . In 1987, he was Nominated for a Juno Award for his album Dream Girl . Apart from music, Olliver has only had one day job and that was in an office job with Canadian Pacific Railway. Olliver, and guitarist Domenic Troiano became part of Mandala in

87-583: A compensation law for Lower Canada. This was among the main events leading to the burning of the Parliament Buildings . Ferres was subsequently arrested, though soon released on bail and set free without trial. In 1939, The Gazette hired its first editorial cartoonist – John Collins , who worked a term of 43 years. In 1968, The Gazette was acquired by the Southam newspaper chain, which owned major dailies across Canada. For many years, The Gazette

116-753: A hit with " All Powerful Man " which peaked at #76 on May 9, 1970. It spent a total of 7 weeks in the Canadian charts. Their album got into the Canadian Top 10, and made the Top 50 in the United States. By Early July, 1972, his group George Olliver and Friends had been signed to Shining Star Associates, a new marketing company that was located in Hamilton, Ontario. In 1973, Olliver released a solo single, "I May Never Get to See You Again" on Much Records which he composed himself. It

145-590: A loss of 54 full-time and 61 part-time positions at the paper. The August 16, 2014, issue was the final issue printed by the Postmedia-owned facility. On October 21, 2014, The Gazette was relaunched as part of the Postmedia Reimagined project, adopting a similar look, and a similar suite of digital platforms, to its sister paper, the Ottawa Citizen , which had relaunched earlier in the year. As part of

174-461: A new media group, Postmedia , bought The Gazette and other papers from the financially troubled Canwest. To celebrate its 150th anniversary, The Gazette published a facsimile of one of its earliest issues. Much effort was made to use a type of paper that imitated 18th century paper, with fake chainlines and laidlines to make the paper look old. Today, The Gazette ' s audience is primarily Quebec's English-speaking community. The Gazette

203-624: A printer, but received little work; he printed the Lettre adressée aux habitants de la province de Québec, ci-devant le Canada ( Letter to the Inhabitants of Canada ) for the Continental Congress in 1775, and travelled to Montreal the following year to set up a printing press in the newly captured city. As the Americans withdrew from Montreal, he was arrested and imprisoned, but released later in

232-510: Is Basem Boshra and the associate managing editor is Jeff Blond. On April 30, 2013, Postmedia Network announced that it would be eliminating the role of publisher at each of its newspapers, including The Gazette . Instead, the company's 10 newspapers were overseen by regional publishers, one each for the Pacific, the Prairies and eastern Canada. Alan Allnutt, who was the publisher of The Gazette at

261-456: Is one of the three dailies published in Montreal, the other two being French-language newspapers: Le Journal de Montréal and Le Devoir . ( La Presse is only published digitally since 2018.) In recent years, The Gazette has stepped up efforts to reach bilingual francophone professionals and adjusted its coverage accordingly. The current editor-in-chief is Lucinda Chodan. The deputy editor

290-824: Is the English-language Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph , which was established in 1764 and is published weekly. Fleury Mesplet founded a French-language weekly newspaper called La Gazette du commerce et littéraire, pour la ville et district de Montréal on June 3, 1778. It was the first entirely French-language newspaper in Canada. The paper did not accept advertising aside for the various books that Mesplet also published. The articles were meant to promote discussion, and it focused on literature and philosophy , as well as various anecdotal articles, poems and letters. Benjamin Franklin encouraged Mesplet to found

319-629: The Montreal Daily News closed in 1989, after less than two years in operation, The Gazette kept its Sunday edition going until August 2010. In 1996, the Southam papers were bought by Conrad Black 's Hollinger Inc. Then in August 2000, Hollinger sold the Southam newspapers, including The Gazette , to Canwest Global Communications Corp. , controlled by the Winnipeg-based Asper family. In 2010,

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348-602: The Bluenote was released. With jay Jackson as emcee, the songs included "Fannie Mae" by Jayson King, "In the Midnight Hour" by Roy Kenner, Shawne Jackson on "Heatwave", "Up On the Roof" by Olliver and more. As of 2006 he was performing with two of his bands, one was George Olliver & Gangbuster, and the other, his gospel band, Caught Away. In 2008, he released a gospel album, George Olliver's Gospel Soul - Look Up . In May, 2010, he

377-602: The FP Publications chain (which owned the Winnipeg Free Press and, at the time, The Globe and Mail ), endured a long strike and ceased publication in 1979, less than a year after the strike was settled. In 1988, a competing English-language daily, the Montreal Daily News , was launched. The Montreal Daily News adopted a tabloid format and introduced a Sunday edition, forcing The Gazette to respond. After

406-583: The left-hand column and English columns in the right-hand column. The columns were originally written in French and translated to English by Valentin Jautard, who served as editor until his death in 1787. The columns were mostly on education, religion, and literature, and after 1788 on politics. Foreign and local news made up the rest of the paper. The paper took a Voltairian and anticlerical stance, wanted Quebec to have its own legislative assembly and sought to import

435-556: The mid-60s. A song he composed, "Lost Love" was the B side of the Mandala single, "Opportunity" which was ready for release in October 1966. Olliver quit the group in September, 1967 and some time afterwards formed the 10-piece soul outfit, George Olliver & His (Soul) Children. He later formed Natural Gas in 1969, a group that rivalled Lighthouse, Chicago and Blood Sweat & Tears. They had

464-400: The newspaper for several issues, but the paper ceased publication soon after. Two rivals, Louis Roy and Edward Edwards fought over the right to publish the newspaper over the course of two years. Edwards eventually won the printing press and newspaper and continued operations until his assets were seized in 1808. The newspaper was then the property of James Brown for fourteen years. In 1822, it

493-670: The newspaper to persuade Canadians to join the American Revolution . A secret resolution of Congress dispatched Mesplat and his printing equipment to Canada in February 1776 "to establish a free press...for the frequent publication of such pieces as may be of service to the cause of the United Colonies." Mesplet, an immigrant from France, had previously lived in Philadelphia and supported the Americans when they occupied Montreal during

522-459: The principles of the French Revolution to Quebec. The newspaper also introduced advertising and announcements, taking up half of four pages. It is the direct ancestor of the current newspaper. The newspaper did well, and Mesplet's operation moved to Notre-Dame Street in 1787. Mesplet continued to operate the newspaper until his death in 1794. Following Mesplet's death, his widow published

551-575: The relaunch, the paper was officially renamed the Montreal Gazette , reflecting its longstanding common name outside its city of publication (as well as its Web domain, montrealgazette.com ). The paper had not included Montreal in its masthead in several years. With its December 1, 2023 issue, The Gazette once again dropped "Montreal" from its masthead and returned to its pre-2014 name and logo. Montreal newspapers: Fleury Mesplet Fleury Mesplet (January 10, 1734 – January 24, 1794)

580-665: The second half of the 20th century. It is one of the French-speaking province's last two English-language dailies; the other is the Sherbrooke Record , which serves the anglophone community in Sherbrooke and the Eastern Townships southeast of Montreal. Founded in 1778 by Fleury Mesplet , The Gazette is Quebec's oldest daily newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper in Canada. The oldest newspaper overall

609-624: The time, became the regional publisher of Postmedia's Alberta and Saskatchewan papers. Gerry Nott, publisher of the Ottawa Citizen , now also oversees The Gazette , the Windsor Star and Postmedia's flagship title, the National Post . On May 5, 2014, it was announced that printing of The Gazette would be contracted out to Transcontinental Media in August 2014 and that the existing Notre-Dame-de-Grâce facility would be closed, resulting in

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638-526: The war. The newspaper was shut down in 1779 when Mesplet and the editor, Valentin Jautard , were arrested for sedition and imprisoned for three years. Mesplet began a second weekly, The Montreal Gazette / La Gazette de Montréal , on August 25, 1785, which had a dual French-English bilingual format similar to that used by the Quebec Gazette . Its offices were located in the house of Joseph Lemoyne de Longueuil on rue de la Capitale. French columns were in

667-521: The year; however, he managed to publish several works in 1776. In 1778 he founded the Gazette Littéraire de Montréal , edited by Valentin Jautard . Both were arrested in 1779 for sedition , and imprisoned for three years; on his release, Mesplet was $ 5,000 in debt but quickly dealt with his creditors. In 1785, he published La Gazette de Montréal , now the Montreal Gazette , the successor to

696-616: Was a French -born Canadian printer best known for founding the Montreal Gazette , Quebec 's oldest daily newspaper, in 1778. Mesplet was born in Marseille , France, and was apprenticed as a printer in Lyon . He emigrated to London in 1773 where he set up shop in Covent Garden . In 1774 he emigrated to Philadelphia ; it is thought that he may have been persuaded to do so by Benjamin Franklin . In Philadelphia he again went into business as

725-568: Was booked to appear at the Books for Reading World Literacy Concert, a fund raiser held at St. Andrew’s Place in Sudbury to help with costs of sending a shipping of a container of school supplies to a developing country. October, 2013 marked his 50th year in the music business. In 2016, he was appearing with his band Gangbuster in Peterborough. On Friday January 5, 2018, Cashbox Canada announced that he

754-543: Was caught in a three-way fight for the English newspaper audience in Montreal with the tabloid Montreal Herald and the broadsheet Montreal Star . The Gazette was second in circulation to the Montreal Star , which sold more newspapers in the city and had a significant national reputation in the first half of the 20th century. The Montreal Herald closed in 1957, after publishing for 146 years. The Montreal Star , part of

783-471: Was produced by the label's A&R man, Bill Hill. According to Billboard , the single was marking his recording comeback. In 1976, he had another single released. The song " Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You " had Dianne Brooks helping out with background vocals. Later in the 1970s, he experienced a life-changing event which turned him towards Christianity. In May, 1983, the live album, Live at

812-462: Was sold to businessman Thomas Andrew Turner who converted into an English-only paper in 1822. Under Turner, The Gazette identified with the interests of anglophone business leaders in their fight with the Patriote movement . On April 25, 1849, The Gazette published a special edition in which its editor-in-chief, James Moir Ferres , called the " Anglo-Saxon " residents to arms after Royal Assent of

841-602: Was to receive the Cashbox Canada Legacy Award. He is now a Christian. Montreal Gazette The Gazette , also known as the Montreal Gazette , is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper which is owned by Postmedia Network . It is published in Montreal , Quebec, Canada. It is the only English-language daily newspaper currently published in its eponymous city. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during

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