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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
  1946
  Daily Weekly
  number circulation number circulation
Montréal 3 223,277 3 322,105
Toronto 3 677,106 3 923,293
Vancouver 3 255,156 1 2,550
Winnipeg 2 132,721 2 4,109
Hamilton 1 71,486 - -
Ottawa 2 100,616 - -
Québec 1 5,206 - -
Windsor 1 61,592 - -
Edmonton 2 63,149 1 2,000
Calgary 2 58,743 - -
London 1 64,863 - -
Halifax 2 119,293 - -
Verdun - - 2 27,436
Regina 1 38,366 1 1,947
Saint John 1 41,762 1 5,100
Victoria 2 38,700 1 23,943
Saskatoon 1 27,182 - -
Trois-Rivières - - 1 3,810
Sherbrooke 1 9,310 1 1,420
Kitchener 1 19,180 - -
Hull - - - -
Sudbury 1 - 1 1,500
Brantford 1 15,295 - -
Fort William 1 10,990 - -
St. Catharines 1 16,019 - -
Kingston 1 16,291 - -
Oshawa - - 1 9,923
Timmins 1 9,900 1 2,897
Sydney 1 21,558 - -
Sault Ste. Marie 1 9,401 - -
Peterborough 1 12,743 1 7,550
Glace Bay 1 - - -
Port Arthur 1 9,390 - -
Guelph 1 10,367 - -
Moncton 1 16,304 - -
New Westminster 1 6,429 1 5,259
Moose Jaw 1 7,092 - -
Niagara Falls 1 9,660 - -
Shawinigan Falls - - 1 2,450
Lachine - - 1 6,500
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1947.