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of St. John," first published on or about the 15th of July, 1791. This journal was issued fortnightly. It was made up of four pages, in each of which there Were three columns ten inches long. It published the local news in brief, the foreign news as received by

mail a few advertisements of merchants and others in business.

Mr. W. A. Rind, printer to His Majesty the King, was its pub-

Before he left the Island Mr. Rind imparted a knowledge of the art of printing to Master Iames Douglas Bagnall, a son of Mr. Samuel Bagnall who came here from New York, with his family, at the close of the Revolutionary War, James Douglas» Bagnall was born at Shelburne, Nova Scotia, while his parents were on their way to Prince Edward Island. Very soon after the dawn of the Nineteenth Century he began the publication of a small paper

called “The Royal Herald.” About sixty copies of this paper were

printed and circulated each week; and but few advertisements were available. 'Of course it was unremunerative and Mr. Bagnall was constrained to tryjhis fortune in the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia. But before his departure he enabled his nephew, James Douglas Haszard, to print the official proclamations and other notices required of the King’s Printer. In theyear 1811, Mr.

. Bagnall returned to Charlottetown and again esayed the public- ation of a newspaper. “The Recorder,” was thevname he gave

his second effort in journalism. After some years The Record- er was superseded by the “Royal Gazette,” and after Mr. Bagnall ceased to be King 8 Printer, by “The Phoenix. ’-’ Mr. Bagnall con- tinued to print and publish newspapers to meet the requirements of the small insular community until the year 1845 when he retired to pass his remaining years, first at his residence on the North River Road and afterwards in Bedeque, where he and his wife died and were buried. He passed away in the year 1856 at the age of

. seventy- one years.

In the meantime his nephew, and pupil, Mr. James Douglas Haszard, had reached the foremost position in the journalism of the Island. . 'Mr. Haszard had the distinction and honor of being the first native of the Island to enter the journalistic field. On ‘ Saturday the 20th of July, 1823, “The Prince Edward Island

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