Echo De L'ouest (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,933 issues from 1885 to 1922, published in Minneapolis, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
Founded on April 25, 1883, Echo de l’Ouest (“Echo of the West”) was the representative newspaper of French Canadians in Minnesota and the surrounding Upper Midwest region. It was published as a four-page weekly in Minneapolis under the management of Editor Zéphirin Demeules, or members of his family, during its entire 45-year run.
Demueles was born in St. Phillips, Quebec, in 1837 and moved to the United States in 1855 to work with Captain Louis Robert, a riverboat captain and early settler of St. Paul, Minnesota, who owned several general stores and traded with the Indians. Demueles became Captain Robert’s representative in Osseo, Minnesota, in 1857. In 1859 he settled in New Ulm, but left in 1861 just before the U.S.-Dakota War began in 1862. After that he owned his own general store in Osseo and then a grocery store in Minneapolis, until purchasing the Echo de l’Ouest newspaper in 1883. F. R. (Francis Robert) Leroux, who married Demeules’s daughter in 1891, served as the editor-in-chief and was considered a writer of great ability. Many of Leroux’s articles were reproduced in French publications from Canada to Louisiana. After Zéphirin Demeules’s death in 1898, his son A. H. (Augustin Herbert) assumed publication of the newspaper. The content of Echo de l’Ouest was more or less consistent: a serialized novel, a directory of French Canadians engaged in Minneapolis public affairs, a large number of advertisements, several columns of news reports from French-Canadian…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Language
- French
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress