PHYSICIANS :—Joseph
Morrin, James Douglas.
Alex. Simpson, Treasurer. John Bruce,
Secretary, Jas. Gillespie, Asst.-Secretary.
COMMITTEE OF INSTALMENT:
William McTavish, Robert H. Gairdner.
OFFICERS OF ST. ANDREW’S SOCIETY FOR 1880.
PRESIDENT—W. D. Campbell. FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT—Wm. Rae.
SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT-—B. B. McLeod.
TREASURER - Jas. McNider. SECRETARY—A. Robertson.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT—Messrs. Wm. Brodie, B. H. George, P. Johnston, Wm.
Sutherland and B. Kerr.
CHAPLAINS—Rev. Dr. Cook and Rev. W. B. Clark.
PHYSICIAN—Dr. Rowand.
Out of the population of the City of Quebec—per census
of 1871 59,699 The Scotch element stands thus 1,861
The Quebec Press owes its orgin to two Scotchmen, from
Philadelphia, Messrs. Brown & Gilmore, who printed * on the 21st June,
1764, in this city, the first number of the Quebec Gazette, the oldest
paper in the Province, the Montreal Gazette having been founded fourteen
years later by Fleury Mesplet, in 1778. When the Gazette was bought up in
1864, and merged into the Quebec Morning chornicle, founded in 1847, it
had existed 110 years.
William Brown was succeeded in the editorship and
proprietorship of this venerable sheet, by his nephew Samuel Neilson, the
elder brother of John Neilson, who for years was the trusted Member for
the County of
* The handle or lever of this press I now hold in my hand.
