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Numbers and circulations of daily and weekly English-language newspapers, in urban centres of 20,000 population or over, 1945 and 1946

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Numbers and circulations of daily and weekly English-language newspapers, in urban centres of 20,000 population or over, 1945 and 1946
  1945
  Daily Weekly
  number circulation number circulation
Montréal 3 205,697 3 238,968
Toronto 3 648,095 3 788,876
Vancouver 3 234,930 - -
Winnipeg 2 136,097 2 22,991
Hamilton 1 67,834 - -
Ottawa 2 94,978 - -
Québec 1 5,108 - -
Windsor 1 59,154 - -
Edmonton 2 58,189 1 3,000
Calgary 2 54,661 - -
London 1 61,099 - -
Halifax 2 115,816 - -
Verdun - - 2 27,995
Regina 1 36,608 1 1,550
Saint John 1 39,138 1 4,800
Victoria 2 36,282 1 22,475
Saskatoon 1 25,008 - -
Trois-Rivières - - 1 3,810
Sherbrooke 1 9,298 1 1,420
Kitchener 1 18,247 - -
Hull - - - -
Sudbury 1 - 1 1,500
Brantford 1 14,578 - -
Fort William 1 10,656 - -
St. Catharines 1 15,265 - -
Kingston 1 15,222 - -
Oshawa - - 1 9,007
Timmins 1 8,513 1 2,897
Sydney 1 20,792 - -
Sault Ste. Marie 1 9,061 - -
Peterborough 1 11,598 1 7,550
Glace Bay 1 - - -
Port Arthur 1 9,192 - -
Guelph 1 9,490 - -
Moncton 1 15,687 - -
New Westminster 1 6,304 1 5,259
Moose Jaw 1 6,275 1 475
Niagara Falls 1 9,158 - -
Shawinigan Falls - - 1 2,328
Lachine - - 1 6,500
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book ,1947.