The Gazette provides those interested in the early history of what is now the province of Ontario with a unique source of information about its early political, social, and economic development. The purpose of this report is to acquaint readers with the history of the Gazette and its place in the development of Upper Canada. As well, it provides brief profiles of eleven of the paper's printers and describes their relationship with their government employers.

It has generally been assumed that the political and social ideas of early Upper Canadians rested firmly on veneration of eighteenth-century British conservative values and unequivocal rejection of all things American. Jane Errington's examination of the attitudes and beliefs of the Upper Canadian elite between 1784 and 1828, as seen through their private papers, public records, and the newspapers of the time, suggests that this view is far too simplistic.

"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as an addendum to vol. 26, no. 7.