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1 will of the business was sold to Mr. J. R. Burnett, and subsequent- ly in the year 1915, The Examiner was merged with the Charlotte-

town Guardian of which Mr. Burnett was editor and manager—- Mr. Cotton’s occupancy of the editorial chair of The Examiner having extended over a periOd 6f forty-nine years.

Concurrently with The Islander and The Examiner there were published in Charlottetown, Ross’s Weekly, the first number of which was issued on the 29th of July, 1859; “The North Star” subsequently merged in “The Island Argus” published by the late Mr. James H. Fletcher, the first number of which was published on the 4th of November, 1869. “The Colonial Herald” and after- wards ”The Monitor” published and edited by Mr. James B. Cooper, the first issue of which Was published on the 5th of May, 1857; "The weekly. Bulletin,” published in succession to “The

»Monitor’v’ by Messrs. Henry and James Cooper, sons of Mr. J. E.

Cooper. “The Vindicator,” published by Mr. Edward Reilly,- and “The Herald,” publication of which was begun in the year

' 1864. After the death of Mr. Reilly, who was for several years Queen’s Printer, Mr. John Caven, a cultured gentleman from Scot-

land, became editor of the Herald; and succeeding him, Mr. James

McIsaac for several years a member of the House of Commons, occupied The Herald’s editorial chair until the year 1923.

Contemporaneously with the Herald, its, publication having been begun in the same year, The Partiot continued to represent the views of the Liberal party'in Prince Edward Island. The Hon. David Laird, himself a leader of the Liberals, was its proprietor and editor. It was issued weekly from 1864 to 1867. Then it be- came a semi— —weekly newspaper, and finally, since the year 1882, it has been issued as a daily. While Mr. Laird was in Ottawa as Minister of the Interior, and 1n Battleford as Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories of Canada, The Patriot was published and edited by Mr. Henry Lawson, a facile and vigorous writer who contributed largely and variously, at different times, to the columns of “The Examiner,” The Summerside Journal and Progress, “The Morning Herald,” The Cornwall Freeholder, The Toronto Globe,

and other newspapers throughout many years, and ended his career

as editorof The Colonist, of British Columbia. Upon Mr. Laird’s