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The ''Montreal Star'' was an English-language Canadian newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It folded in 1979 in the wake of an eight-month pressmen's strike. It was Canada's largest newspaper until the 1950s and remained the dominant English-language newspaper in Montreal until shortly before its closure. ==History== The paper was founded January 16, 1869, by Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan and George T. Lanigan as the ''Montreal Evening Star''. Graham ran the newspaper for nearly 70 years. In 1877, ''The Evening Star'' became known as ''The Montreal Daily Star''. By 1899, it reached a daily readership of 52,600 and by 1913 40% of its circulation was outside of Montreal. By 1915, the ''Montreal Star'' dominated the city's English-language evening newspaper market and Graham was able to out-perform his competitors who closed and assured him control of the English-language market. In 1925, Graham sold the ''Montreal Star'' to John Wilson McConnell, but continued to operate the newspaper until his death in 1938. McConnell also owned two other newspapers, the ''Montreal Standard'' and ''Family Herald''. Beginning in the 1940s, the ''Montreal Star'' became very successful, its circulation was nearly 180,000 copies and it remained around that level for approximately thirty years. In 1951, the ''Montreal Star'' launched its ''Weekend Magazine'' supplement (subsuming the former ''Montreal Standard''), with an initial circulation of 900,000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Influence of American Magazines )〕 After McConnell's death in 1963, Toronto-based FP newspaper group, owner of ''The Globe and Mail'' and the ''Winnipeg Free Press'' acquired the ''Montreal Star''. Thomson Newspapers later acquired the FP chain in 1980. In 1978, a strike by pressmen (printers' union) began and lasted eight months. Although the strike was settled in February 1979 and the ''Star'' resumed publication, it had lost readers and advertisers to the rival paper ''The Gazette'', and ceased publication permanently only a few months later on September 25, 1979. ''The Gazette'' acquired the ''Star''s building, presses, and archives, and became the sole English-language daily in Montreal. Prior to the strike the ''Star'' had consistently out-sold ''The Gazette''. The newspaper ceased publication only a few months after another Montreal daily, ''Montréal-Matin'', stopped the presses. These closings left many Montrealers concerned.〔(Déclaration du Conseil de presse du Québec concernant la fermeture du Montreal Star (extrait du Rapport annuel 1979-80) ) (In French)〕 The simultaneous closing of the ''Star'', ''Calgary Albertan'', ''Winnipeg Tribune'', and ''Ottawa Journal'' caused the federal government to establish the Kent Commission to examine newspaper monopolies in Canada. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Montreal Star」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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