The Suburban Newspaper

The Suburban newspaper was founded on March 1, 1963, in Sophie Wollocks basement on Davies Avenue in Cote Saint-Luc. Wollock vowed at the time that the paper would be uncompromising in reporting the news and getting the truth out to the public. In subsequent years, The Suburban would expand its coverage and launch additional editions in the surrounding communities, including Hampstead, Notre-Dame-de-Grace, Cote-des-Neiges and Snowdon, Westmount, Town of Mount Royal, and Saint-Laurent. It also spread to the West Island in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Beaconsfield, Kirkland, and Point Claire, and north into Chomedey, Laval. The Suburban expanded even further in the 2000s to include an east-end edition that covered in Saint-Leonard and Riviere-des-Prairies, as well as going west to Vaudreuil-Dorion and south to LaSalle and Verdun. The Wollock family owned the newspaper until 1987, when it was purchased by the Sochaczevski family, who own it to this day. The Suburban has won numerous Quebec...