The Montreal Gazette is the only English-language metropolitan daily newspaper left in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is one of the oldest newspapers in North America, founded in 1778 as a French-language journal. It became bilingual shortly after, and changed to an English-language paper in 1822. It's daily circulation today is about 142,000 in Canada's second largest city where there are about 419,000 Anglophones in a metropolitan population of about 3.5 million