''Le Gaboteur'' is a Canadian newspaper, published in St. John's,

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."Newfoundland's French newspaper Le Gaboteur's future uncertain"

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, December 17, 1999. The province's only

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newspaper, the publication serves the Franco-Newfoundlander community as well as the nearby

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. The paper was established in 1984 in St. John's"Le Gaboteur a 25 ans"

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, October 15, 2009. by the ''Fédération des Francophones de Terre-Neuve et du Labrador'', and moved to Stephenville in 1987 to be closer to the province's primary francophone settlements on the

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. The publication later moved its offices back to St. John's in the early 2000s. Originally launched as a monthly publication, ''Le Gaboteur'' expanded to a biweekly in 1986. In 2014, to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of

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, the newspaper published a special edition commemorating the Franco-Newfoundlanders who had served in the war."Le souvenir"
''Acadie Nouvelle'', November 13, 2014.

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''Le Gaboteur''
Newspapers published in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador Publications established in 1984 1984 establishments in Newfoundland and Labrador French-language newspapers published in Canada {{Canada-newspaper-stub