La_Liberté_(Canada)

<i>La Liberté</i> (Canada)

La Liberté (Canada)

French newspaper based in Manitoba

La Liberté is a Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada based newspaper founded on May 20, 1913 by Archbishop Adélard Langevin of Saint-Boniface.[1]

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La Liberté is currently the only French-speaking provincial weekly newspaper in Manitoba.

History

In 1970, the publication was taken over by Presse-Ouest Limitée which is owned by the francophone cultural organization la Société Franco-Manitobaine (SFM). Its headquarters are at 123 Marion Street in St. Boniface.

La Liberte car in downtown Winnipeg

The newspaper celebrated its 85th anniversary in 1998. It has a staff of ten people. In 2013, La Liberté celebrated a hundred years of news in Manitoba, en français.[2]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Manitoba Newspapers Listing". Histoire Manitobaine. Retrieved October 9, 2015.
  2. [2]
    Gwiazda, Woytek (May 23, 2013). "La Liberté: 100 yr old newspaper weekly celebrates with online archive". Radio Canada International. Retrieved September 1, 2019.


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