Gazette van Detroit
Gazette van Detroit (Newspaper of Detroit) is a Belgian newspaper in Dutch, published in the USA since 13 August 1914. This newpaper has Flemish immigrants in the USA and Canada as targeted readers.
First it appeared as a daily newspaper, later it became biweekly.
By 2004, celebrating its ninetieth birthday, it still has some 600 subscribers in America, and some 100 in Belgium.
External links (& addresses)
- The Gazette van Detroit has no website.
- The Belgian correspondents of the gazette (Luke & Doreen Vandenbussche) can be reached at mailto:lukecan@pandora.be.
- The newspaper is published by Gazette van Detroit Belgian Publishing Company Inc., 18740 13 Mile Road, ROSEVILLE, MICHIGAN 48066.
- A short biographical note about the founder of the newspaper (Camille Cools) can be found here: http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Egsfa/heroes.html#Camille%20Cools
- Historic research about the Gazette can be found at http://millennium.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/F206/amdoc2002/gazette_van_Detroit/ (in Dutch)