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Numbers and circulations of daily and weekly French-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 French-language newspapers in urban centres of 20,000 population or over, 1945 and 1946
  Census, 1941 1945
  Population Households Daily Weekly
  number number circulation number circulation
Montréal 903,007 203,685 5 283,099 6 766,074
Winnipeg 221,960 59,607 - - 1 8,396
Ottawa 154,951 35,601 1 22,679 - -
Québec 150,757 28,170 2 177,586 1 17,500
Edmonton 93,817 24,700 - - 1 3,185
Trois-Rivières 42,007 7,688 1 15,378 2 5,883
Sherbrooke 35,965 7,770 1 12,137 1 27,018
Hull 32,947 6,427 - - 2 7,106
Sudbury 32,203 7,685 - - 1 1,750
Moncton 22,763 5,121 - - 1 9,250
Shawinigan Falls 20,325 3,820 - - 5 11,397
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1947.