Le Courrier du Sud
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)TC Transcontinental
Founder(s)Jean-Paul Auclair[1]
PublisherLucie Masse
Founded1947
LanguageFrench
HeadquartersLongueuil, Quebec, Canada
Circulation143,992 homes each week
Sister newspapersLe Magazine de St-Lambert, Le Brossard Éclair, Le Journal de Saint-Hubert[2]
WebsiteLe Courrier du Sud (official website)

Le Courrier du Sud is a free French-language weekly tabloid newspaper based in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. The newspaper is distributed to 143,992 homes in the cities of Longueuil (boroughs of Le Vieux-Longueuil, Saint-Hubert and Greenfield Park), Brossard and Saint-Lambert.[3] 'Le Courrier du Sud is owned by Transcontinental. It was established in 1947 by Jean-Paul Auclair[1] in the former city of Montreal South as a bilingual newspaper (and was also known at the time as The South Courier).[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Gagnon, Léo (January 7, 2010). "Le fondateur du Courrier du Sud, Jean-Paul Auclair, n'est plus" (in French). Brossard Eclair. Archived from the original on January 15, 2013.
  2. "Toute l'actualité à la une de votre journal local". Montérégie (in French). Hebdos Quebecor. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
  3. "Tirage 2009" (PDF). Le Courrier du Sud. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 20, 2009. Retrieved April 4, 2009.
  4. Pratt, Michel. "Le Courrier du Sud". C'était hier (in French). Société historique et culturelle du Marigot. Archived from the original on November 8, 2009.


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