Crossword-Solution: CANADIEN 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The first open sign of the racial division which was to bedevil the life of the province came in 1806 when, in order to meet the attacks of the Anglicizing party, the newspaper "Le Canadien" was established at Quebec.

Influence of the Newspaper Press on the Intellect of the Country--First Newspapers in Canada--Review of Political Journalism up to 1840--Quebec _Gazette_, Montreal _Gazette_, Quebec _Mercury_, _Le Canadien_, etc.--Journalists of mark in old times--Gary, Bedard, Neilson, Mackenzie, Horne, Fothergill, Gurnett, Dalton, Parent--Mrs.

This was the _Canadien_, which was established in the fall of that year, chiefly through the exertions of Pierre Bedard, who was for a long while the leader of the French party in the Legislature, and at the same time chief editor of the new journal, which at once assumed a strong position as the exponent of the principles with which its French Canadian conductors were so long identified.

Whilst the _Canadien_, _Gazette_, and _Mercury_ were, in Lower Canada, ably advocating their respective views on the questions of the day, the Press of Upper Canada was also exhibiting evidences of new vigour.

The leading papers, in 1840, were the Montreal _Gazette_, the Montreal _Herald_, the _Canadien_, the Quebec _Gazette_, the Quebec _Mercury_, in Lower Canada; the _British Colonist_, _British Whig_, and _Examiner_, in Upper Canada; the _Nova Scotian_ and _Acadian Recorder_, in Nova Scotia; the _News_, in New Brunswick.