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Personal Information

Full Name

Sandra Alston

Bio

Sandra Alston is the Canadian Specialist at the University of Toronto Library, and adjunct faculty member of the Faculty of Information. Her primary research interest is in printing and publishing history prior to Confederation. Her most recent publications, with Patricia Lockhart Fleming, are Early Canadian Printing: A Supplement to Marie Tremaine's 'A Bibliography of Canadian Imprints, 1751-1800' and Toronto in Print, An Exhibition and Catalogue Celebrating Two Hundred Years of the Press in Toronto.

Affiliation

University of Toronto

Country

Canada

Case studies by Sandra Alston

Case study :

The Prospectus of the Quebec Gazette/La Gazette de Québec

One of Canada’s most important early newspapers, launched by its first publishing dynasty, the bilingual Quebec Gazette/La Gazette de Québec announced its impending establishment with a prospectus dated 1763, in which citizens of Quebec City were promised a publication that would become a “benefit” to their community. Preserved in the collections of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at University of Toronto, the prospectus and the newspaper are valued today as one of the treasures of Canadian cultural history.