{{Infobox newspaper | name = The Standard (Montreal) | image = | caption = | type = Weekly pictorial | format = Broadsheet, tabloid | founded = 1905 | ceased_publication = 1951 | price = | owners = Hugh Graham,<br />John Wilson McConnell | editor-in-chief = | political_position = | headquarters = | circulation = | ISSN = | publisher = | website = }} The '''''Montreal Standard''''', later known as '''''The Standard''''', was a national weekly pictorial newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, founded by Hugh Graham.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/montreal-standard/|title = Montreal Standard|author = J.L. Granatstein|author-link = Jack Granatstein|publisher = Canadian Encyclopedia}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.nndb.com/media/373/000114031/|title = Montreal Standard|publisher = NNDB}}</ref> It operated from 1905 to 1951.
==History== The ''Standard'' began publishing in 1905 as a Saturday-only newspaper modelled on the ''Illustrated London News'', a format that continued throughout World War I and World War II.<ref name="EppIacovetta2016">{{cite book|author1=Marlene Epp|author2=Franca Iacovetta|author2-link=Franca Iacovetta|title=Sisters or Strangers?: Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History - Second Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FYVyDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA344|year=2016|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1-4426-2913-4|page=6}}</ref> Over time, the ''Standard'' reduced its size from broadsheet to tabloid, and it became more of a feature-oriented weekly, emphasizing feature writing, recipes, fiction, cartoons and, increasingly, illustrations and photographs over news items.
In 1925, Graham sold the paper, along with other media properties including the ''Montreal Star'', to John Wilson McConnell. The ''Standard'' was available in Montreal as a free weekend supplement to the ''Montreal Star'' and nationally through subscription and newsstands and was a rival to the Toronto-based ''Star Weekly''. In 1947, the ''Standard'' wooed away popular cartoonist Jimmy Frise from the ''Star Weekly'', but as the ''Star Weekly'' retained the rights to the name of Frise's popular ''Birdseye Center'' comic strip, the cartoon was renamed ''Juniper Junction''. Another comic strip, "Doug Wright's Family", was launched at the ''Standard'' in 1949.<ref name=mcneil>[https://www.thespec.com/news-story/4060520-namesakes-doug-wright-park/ "NAMESAKES: DOUG WRIGHT PARK"]. Mark McNeil, ''Hamilton Spectator'', Sep 03, 2013</ref>
In 1951, the ''Standard'' changed its publishing format and relaunched as the ''Weekend Picture Magazine'' (later simply the ''Weekend''), which was distributed across Canada as a weekend supplement to local newspapers.<ref name=mcneil /><ref>''The Uncertain Mirror: Senate Committee on Mass Media'', Volume I.</ref> As ''Weekend'' the publication focussed on feature writing, photography and comics and dropped the Standard's news and fiction components.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=616944&lang=eng|title = Weekend Magazine collection [graphic material]}}</ref>
Notable contributors to the newspaper include Mavis Gallant, who was on staff as a feature reporter from 1944 to 1950,<ref name=gallant>[http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mavis-gallant/ Mavis Gallant] at The Canadian Encyclopedia.</ref><ref>Victoria Ahearn, [https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2014/02/18/mavis_gallant_legendary_short_story_writer_dies_at_91.html "Mavis Gallant, legendary short story writer, dies at 91"]. ''Toronto Star'', Feb. 18, 2014</ref> Lawrence Earl, who was a war correspondent and photojournalist for the paper during World War II,<ref name="nble">[http://w3.stu.ca/stu/sites/nble/e/earl_lawrence.html Lawrence Earl] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002405/http://w3.stu.ca/stu/sites/nble/e/earl_lawrence.html |date=2016-03-04 }}. New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, 2008.</ref> and Karen Hermeston, the Canadian Army's first female war photographer.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Gervais |first=Dale |date=11 November 2012 |title=Meet Sgt. Karen Hermeston |url=https://canadianfilmandphotounit.ca/2012/11/11/meet-sgt-karen-hermeston/ |access-date=2026-01-13 |website=canadianfilmandphotounit |language=en-CA}}</ref>
==See also== * List of newspapers in Canada
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