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of events happening on the continent at large, it was made to hear tlie double title of Upper 

 Canada Gazette, or American Oracle. Louis Eoy was its first printer, a slnlled artizan engaged 

 probably from Lower Canada, where printing had been introduced about thirty years previously, 

 soon after the English occupation of the country. 



Louis Roy's name appears on the face of No. 1, Vol. I. The typo iJ of the shape used in 

 contemporaneous printing, and the execution is very good. The size of the sheet which 

 ratained the folio form, was 15 X 9^ inches. The quality of the paper was rather coarse, 

 but stout and durable. 



The address to the public in the first number is as follows: "The Editor of this paper 

 respectfully informs the public that the flattering prospect which he has of an extensive sale 

 for his new undertaking has enabled him to augment the size originally proposed from a Demy 

 Quarto to a Folio. 



"The encouragement he has met will call forth every exertion ho is master of, so as to 

 render the paper useful, entertaining and instructive. He will be very happy in being favored 

 with such communications as may contribute to the infonnation of the public, from those who 

 shall be disposed to assist him, and in particular shall be highly flattered in becoming the 

 vehicle of intelligence in this growmg Province of whatever may tend to its internal benefit 

 and common advantage. In order to preserve the veracity of his paper, which will be the first 

 object of his attention, it will be requisite that all transactions of a domestic nature, such as 

 deaths, marriages, &c., be communicated under real signatures. 



" The price of this Gazette will be three dollars per annum. All advertisements inserted in it 

 and not exceeding twelve lines will pay 4s. Quebec currency ; and for every additional length a 

 proportionable price. Orders for letter-press printing will be executed with neatness, dispatch 

 and attention, and on the most reasonable terms." 



An advertisement in the first number informs the public that a brewery is about to be estab- 

 lished under the sanction of the Lieutenant Governor. " Notice is hereby given, that there 

 will be a brewery erected here this summer under the sanction of his Excellency the Lieutenant 

 Governor, and encouraged by some of the principal gentlemen of this place ; and whosoever 

 will sow barley and cultivate their land so that it will produce grain of a good quality, they 

 may be certain of a market in the fall at one dollar a bushel on delivery. " W. Huet. 



"Niagara, 18th April, 1793." 



The No. dated Niagara, May 2, 1793, " hath" the following advertisement : 



" Sampson Jutes begs leave to inform all persons who propose to build houses, &c., in tlie 

 course of this summer, that he hath laths, planks and scantlings of all kinds to sell on reason- 

 able terms. Any person may be supplied with any of the above articles on the shortest notice. 

 Applications to be made to him at his MUl near Mr. Peter Secord's." 



In the No. for May 30, 1793, we have ten guineas reward oftered for the recovery of a 

 Government grindstone : 



"Ten Guineas Reward is offered to any person that will make discovery and prosecute to 

 conviction, the Thief or Thieves that have stolen a Grindstone from the King's "Wharf at Navy 

 Hall, between the 30th of April and the 6th instant. "John McGill, 



" Com. of Stores, &c. &c., for the Province of Upper Canada. 



"Queenstown, I6th May, 1793." 



The Anniversary of the King's Birth-day was celebrated at Niagara in 1793 in the following 

 manner : 



" Niagara, June 6. On Tuesday last, being the Anniversary of His Majesty's birthday. His 

 Excellency the Lieutenant Governor had a Levee at Navy Hall. At one o'clock the troops in 

 garrison and at Queenston fired three vollies ; the tteld-pieces above Navy Hall, under the 

 direction of the Royal Artillery, and the guns of the Garrison, fired a Royal Salute. His 

 Majesty's schooner, the Onondago, at anchor in the river, likewise fired a Royal Salute. In the 

 evening his Excellency gave a Ball and elegant Supper at the Council Chamber, which was most 

 numerously attended." 



In the second volume (1794) of the Gazette and Oracle Louis Roy's name disappears. G. 

 Tiffany becomes the printer. In 1798 it has assumed the Quarto form, and is dated " West 

 Niagara," a name that Newark was beginning to acquire. 



