 It is one of the French-speaking province's last two English-language dailies; the other is the "Sherbrooke Record", which serves the anglophone community in the Eastern Townships southeast of Montreal.Founded in 1778 by Fleury Mesplet, "The Gazette" is Quebec's oldest daily newspaper and Canada's oldest daily newspaper still in publication.The oldest newspaper overall is the English-language "Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph", which was established in 1764 and is published weekly.