Quebec Mercury 721150 200213940 2008-03-23T02:29:53Z SmackBot 433328 Date the maintenance tags or general fixes {{Unreferenced|date=March 2008}} '''''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]] {{Quebec-stub}} {{Canada-newspaper-stub}}