Abstract

The article analyzes how the events of the distant communication past affect the current information situation in the country based on the specific material of the two-century formation of a Canadian journalism. Under French rule, there were no printing houses and no press in Canada. Under the British regime, newspapers finally appeared, but English became the official language of the colony with a French-speaking population, and periodicals involuntarily, contrary to the proclamation of George III, chose “unofficial bilingualism”. However, the division of Canada by the political decision of the new metropolis into French-speaking and English-speaking ones in 1791 left its mark on all the subsequent development of journalism in the country: today two separate media systems continue to coexistt.

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