TT11 Ay* iSilltltl ■BUS,- looking from , 100 years ago twenty-five others in succession before Confederation. Some were dailies, some weeklies; some survived only a few years. They carried news of home and abroad, and many included long articles, official government announcements, stories, poems and correspondence, all of which contributed enor¬ mously to what one of the papers called "the general intelli¬ gence and literature". The simplicity of the early printing press, the rise and fall of many political groups when colonial politics was lively and rough, and, of course, the absence of the modern radio, libraries, magazines, and speedily-delivered big-city papers, encouraged the large number of small local Looking from , present. jf* ™ * ..~t- <»■• f ' >*"** . k.^ ft . mm i I i A!ti * i -.1 • is?»m