Regional Spread of Newspapers, 1752-1900


Units

Area units:
1901 international boundaries are shown.

Data units:
Arrows representing the spread of newspapers are shown.


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Legend Description

Spread of newspapers
The arrows represent the transplant of both the individuals who started newspapers in Canadian cities, and the movement of the printing presses they brought with them.

Key cities
The key cities are those that played a role in the establishment of the first newspaper in one of Canada's 10 provinces.

Towns with newspapers
Cities and towns are shown with different colours representing the establishment date of their first newspaper.

The only political boundary on this map is the Canadian/American border, defined by the change in colour from olive to yellow.

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Layers

Clicking the TOWNS WITH NEWSPAPERS checkbox turns on all three Newspaper layers. Individual Newspaper layers representing the different date ranges can be turned on or off individually.
Modern Geography (current provincial and territorial boundaries, as well as selected cities) is available for reference.

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Active Tools

 Active layer: Clicking the checkbox makes the Spread of newspapers the active layer. Use the tools below to get information about the spread of newspapers.

Identify: Click anywhere on one of the regional spread arrows to display the story of the people who established a given province's first newspaper.

Table: Click or drag a rectangle to select any of the regional spread arrows. A table pops up showing information about that arrow. See Table Fields below.

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Table Fields - Spread of newspapers

Story of spread The story of the people who established a given province's first newspaper.
Date The date when the transplant occurred.

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