L'événement vaut d'être souligné, d'autant plus que, avec le Globe, aujourd'hui Globe and Mail, fondé en 1844 par George Brown, député au Parlement du Canada-Uni puis sénateur en 1873, Le Devoir est le seul autre journal fondé par un ancien député fédéral qui ait survécu jusqu'à aujourd'hui.
This is an occasion to be celebrated, especially because it one of only two newspapers established by former federal MPs that is still in business. The other is The Globe, known today as The Globe and Mail, which was established in 1844 by George Brown, who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and became a senator in 1873.