The first printing office in the Province was established by Louis Roy, in April, 1793, [Footnote: Mr. Bourinot, in his _Intellectual Development of Canada_, says this was in 1763, which is no doubt a typographical error.] at Newark (Niagara), and from it was issued the _Upper Canada Gazette_, or _American Oracle_ [Footnote: _Toronto of Old_], a formidable name for a sheet 15 in. x 9. It was an official organ and newspaper combined, and when a weekly journal of this size could furnish the current news of the day, and the Government notices as well, one looking at it by the light of the present day cannot help thinking that publishing a paper was up-hill work. Other journals were started, and, after running a brief course, expired. When one remembers the tedious means of communication in a country almost without roads, and the difficulty of getting items of news, it does not seem strange that those early adventures were short-lived. But as time wore on, one after another succeeded in getting a foothold, and in finding its way into the home of the settler. They were invariably small, and printed on coarse paper. Sometimes even this gave out, and the printer had to resort to blue wrapping paper in order to enable him to present his readers with the weekly literary feast. In 1830, the number had increased from the humble beginning in the then capital of Upper Canada, to twenty papers, and of these the following still survive: _The Chronicle and News_, of Kingston, established 1810; _Brockville Recorder_, 1820; St. Catharines _Journal_, 1824; _Christian Guardian_, 1829. There are now in Ontario 37 daily papers, 4 semi-weeklies; 1 tri-weekly, 282 weeklies, 27 monthlies, and 2 semi-monthlies, making a total of 353. The honour of establishing the first daily paper belongs to the late Dr. Barker, of Kingston, founder of the _British Whig_, in 1834.