The weekly newspaper Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph is one of the latest to link up with Google, making its archives available on the Internet giant's search engine, The Chronicle reported Tuesday.

The Chronicle-Telegraph launched in 1764 as the Quebec Gazette, and claims to be North America's oldest continually published newspaper. The Quebec, Canada-based newspaper is looking for more ad revenue streams, and hopes partnering with Google will help.

The weekly expects to earn about half of its revenue from advertisements on archival pages, according to The Chronicle.

Pierre Little, the Chronicle-Telegraph's publisher, said he does not know yet how much that revenue will add up to. However, Little said he does know it would be unwise to not try and monetize old editions that “are just sitting around doing nothing ... the news within our archives covers the most important milestones in the early history of Canada and the United States of America.”

Google has already begun putting archives of The New York Times and Washington Post online, and has continued to make deals with other newspapers.

“One of our partners, the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, is the oldest newspaper in North America (and) has been publishing continuously for more than 244 years,” Google said in a statement, according to The Chronicle. “This effort is just the beginning.”