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'''''The Quebec Mercury''''' was an [[English language]] weekly [[newspaper]] published in [[Quebec City]] from [[1805]] to [[1863]].
The ''Mercury'' was founded by publisher [[Thomas Cary]] in respect and veneration of [[Canada]]'s link to the [[United Kingdom]]. From 1828 to 1848 the Mercury was owned jointly by Thomas Cary and [[George-Paschal Desbarats]]. The newspaper generally represented the economic and political interests of the English merchants, while its rival ''[[Le Canadien]]'' (1806-1893) represented the economic and political interests of the [[French language]] moneyed groups. The Quebec Mercury was deeply conservative, advocated for the assimilation of French Canadians, and sought to "unfrenchify" the colony. Cary perceived the rise of a French middle class and the French majority in the Assembly as a threat to the growth of Anglo-Canadian commercial interests. The newspaper survived until the 1950s.
Together, they were the first really political newspapers printed in Canada.
[[Category:Defunct weekly newspapers]]
[[Category:Defunct newspapers of Canada]]
[[Category:Newspapers published in Quebec City]]
[[Category:Quebec Anglophone media]]
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