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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 1946
  Population Households Daily Weekly
  number number circulation number circulation
Montréal 903,007 203,685 5 304,256 7 842,885
Winnipeg 221,960 59,607 - - 1 8,161
Ottawa 154,951 35,601 1 23,432 - -
Québec 150,757 28,170 2 189,184 1 17,500
Edmonton 93,817 24,700 - - 1 3,760
Trois-Rivières 42,007 7,688 1 16,839 2 6,068
Sherbrooke 35,965 7,770 1 13,457 1 27,737
Hull 32,947 6,427 - - 2 7,106
Sudbury 32,203 7,685 - - 1 1,860
Moncton 22,763 5,121 - - 1 9,717
Shawinigan Falls 20,325 3,820 - - 5 11,372
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1947.