The Eastern Door


The Eastern Door is a community-based weekly newspaper established by Kenneth Deer in 1992 serving the community of Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, a First Nations reserve of the on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, across from Montreal. It publishes weekly every Friday. It also has an online edition. Steve Bonspiel bought the paper in July 2008 and is also the editor and publisher.
The weekly won The Canadian Community Newspapers Association award in the General Excellence category for best small newspaper in Canada in 2016 and 2017, and then left the association after it restructured.
The newspaper has also won best overall newspaper in the Quebec Community Newspapers Association in 2017 and 2018.