Toronto Gazette

Toronto Gazette
Type	Daily Newspaper
Location	Toronto
First Appearance	Season One

The Toronto Gazette is Toronto's primary daily newspaper on Murdoch Mysteries. The newspaper is not only a popular press prop, it is used in support of the storyline, often giving clues and insights into solving the crime mysteries.

Occasionally, The Gazette is used as a calling card to a murder.

Inspector Thomas Brackenreid consults the stock market listings in the Gazette during the investigation of the murder of Alice Howard in Power.

One of the Gazette's reporters, a Newsman Louis, was present at the boxing match between Amos Robinson and Bob Sullivan. Later, Louis helped Detective William Murdoch in his investigation into Robinson's murder by proving Murdoch with several photographic plates taken by the Gazette photographer that evening in The Knockdown.

American spy agent Allen Clegg poses as a reporter named Carson Turner for the Toronto Gazette in Confederate Treasure.

Until her death, Mary Foster contributed tantalizing puzzles to the Toronto Gazette each day in "The Blood Code".

Season 10 introduces a new Gazette journalist, Miss Louise Cherry in Concocting A Killer, but by Season 10's finale, she is also writing for the Toronto Free Press. In Season 11, Miss Cherry has left the Gazette to work at the Toronto Telegraph.

There are numerous nameless newsboys peddling the latest edition on the streets of Toronto whose numbers decease as magazine and news stands begin to appear more frequently, starting in Season 8.

Season 1

• An article from the Gazette found in the pocket of a corpse that fell from the ceiling of the Grand Theatre helped Murdoch narrow down a date for the murder of the corpse which turned out to be Virgil Smart in Body Double.
• When Prince Alfred  was kidnapped by the Irish Republican Brotherhood  a ransom note was sent to the Gazette demanding Irish freedom from the United Kingdom of Great Britain  before His Highness would be freed in The Prince and the Rebel.

In "The Knockdown"

In"The Knockdown"

In "Let Loose the Dogs"

In "Let Loose the Dogs"

In "Body Double"

Diabolical Magic Square by Mary Foster

Bad Medicine

Season 2

Brackenreid gets a call from the Mayor in Werewolves

Season 4

All Tattered and Torn

Kommando

Murdoch's Scrutiny Camera makes the headlines in Buffalo Shuffle.

Confederate Treasure

The Black Hand

The Kissing Bandit Strikes Again

Season 5

Newsboy in Evil Eye of Egypt

Evil Eye of Egypt

War on Terror

Stroll on the Wild Side (Part 2)

Twentieth Century Murdoch

Season 6

Toronto Gazette Newsboy

Murdoch and Winston Churchill search the Gazette

Interviewing Purcell of The Toronto Gazette in Winston's Lost Night.

Newsboy Murdoch On The Corner

Murdoch and the Cloud of Doom

Gazette clippings on the wall in Murdoch and the Cloud of Doom

The motive for the threat in Murdoch and the Cloud of Doom

Codes found in the newspaper in A Study in Sherlock.

Station House No. 4 searching through the Gazette in Murdoch Au Naturel

Murdoch Au Naturel

Finds the article that solves the case in Murdoch Au Naturel

Murdoch in Ladies Wear

Lovers in a Murderous Time

Season 7

Murdoch in Ragtime

Headline: "Underground Thief Perpetrates String of Robberies" in Journey to the Centre of Toronto

Is Anyone Safe from the Terror of the Mole People? in Journey to the Centre of Toronto

Mole People Biding Their Time, But Will They Strike Again? in Journey to the Centre of Toronto

Season 8

Election Day

The Keystone Constables

Season 9

A Merry Murdoch Christmas

Reporters A Merry Murdoch Christmas

Christmas Killer at Large

Krampus the culprit?

Summer of '75

Unlucky In Love

Colour Blinded

Wild Child

House of Industry

Bl..dy H.ll

Newsboy

Season 10

Great Balls of Fire, Part 1

Great Balls of Fire, Part 2

Concocting A Killer

Newsboy in Concocting A Killer

Weekend at Murdoch's

Once Upon a Murdoch Christmas

A Murdog Mystery

The Missing

Mr. Murdoch's Neighbourhood

Hell to Pay

Season 11

Dr. Osler Regrets

The Talking Dead

Season 12

Annabella Cinderella

Darkness Before the Dawn Part 2

Known Reporters & Contributors

• Louise Cherry
• Matthew Booth
• Mr. Purcell
• Paddy Glynn
• Teddy Nelson
• Mary Foster
• Newsman Louis

Trivia

• The Toronto Gazette is a fictional newspaper. The name was also used in the Canadian television series, Seeing Things. The Globe and Mail was an active Toronto newspaper from 1844 and the Evening Star (now the Toronto Star) was founded in 1892. Neither of these names could be used on Murdoch Mysteries because of copyright.
• One issue that bothers some MM fans is the use of photography, especially in the newspapers: they are shown way too clear for the technology (photo and printing) of the day. Showrunner Peter Mitchell acknowledges this and states, " We have some access to photos from the time (properly stored ones) and they are too good to use... the ones we use in newspapers (both the quality of image and the amount), for the interest of trying to quickly convey information to the viewer, we cheat that."

External Links

• Toronto Gazette Archival Footage