Trefflé Berthiaume
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Trefflé Berthiaume was a Canadian
typographer, newspaperman and politician.
Born in Saint-Hugues, Lower Canada, the son of Gédéon Berthiaume and Éléonore Normandin, Berthiaume was educated at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe. After school, he was an apprentice to a tailor for more than two years. In 1863, he started training as a typographer a profession which he worked in for some time. In 1884, he founded the Gebhardt and Berthiaume Lithographing and Printing Company Limited. In 1884, he was a co-founder of the magazine Le Monde illustré. In 1889, he became in charge of the editing, printing, and distribution of the Montreal
newspaper
La Presse
. He became the owner in 1894.He helped La Presse to become a sensationalistic people's paper with articles on crime reporting, lurid reports with moralistic comments. It once featured drawings of a female murderess' thoughts.
He was called to the Legislative Council of Quebec
for the division of Alma in 1896 and served until his death in 1915.
He died in Montreal in 1915 and is buried in the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery
.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
typographer, newspaperman and politician.
Born in Saint-Hugues, Lower Canada, the son of Gédéon Berthiaume and Éléonore Normandin, Berthiaume was educated at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe. After school, he was an apprentice to a tailor for more than two years. In 1863, he started training as a typographer a profession which he worked in for some time. In 1884, he founded the Gebhardt and Berthiaume Lithographing and Printing Company Limited. In 1884, he was a co-founder of the magazine Le Monde illustré. In 1889, he became in charge of the editing, printing, and distribution of the Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
La Presse
La Presse (Canada)
La Presse, founded in 1884, is a French-language Monday-Saturday newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is owned today by Groupe Gesca, a subsidiary of Power Corporation of Canada. The Sunday version was dropped in 2009.-Description:...
. He became the owner in 1894.He helped La Presse to become a sensationalistic people's paper with articles on crime reporting, lurid reports with moralistic comments. It once featured drawings of a female murderess' thoughts.
He was called to the Legislative Council of Quebec
Legislative Council of Quebec
From 1867 until 1968, the Legislative Council of Quebec was the unelected upper house of the bicameral legislature in the Canadian province of Quebec...
for the division of Alma in 1896 and served until his death in 1915.
He died in Montreal in 1915 and is buried in the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery
Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery
Founded in 1854, Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges is a 343-acre cemetery located in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The entrance and the grounds run along a part of chemin Côte-des-Neiges and up the slopes of Mount Royal...
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