CONSTITUTIONALIST 
     
    
   
   
    
     CONSTITUTIONALIST Apr. 27, 1846 - Oct. 17, 1846. 
     
     LOCATION Charlottetown, P.E.I.. 
     
     FREQUENCY Weekly on Saturdays. 
     
    

    
     PUBLISHER Stephen Burris. 
     
     EDITOR Frederick J.M. Collard. 
     
     PROSPECTUS 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Constitutionalist's chief preoccupations throughout its 
     
     brief publishing history were the criticism of Lieutenant 
     
     Governor Sir Henry Vere Huntley and the defense of the then 
     
     Family Compact member, Joseph Pope, following his expulsion 
     
     from the Executive Council. Allegedly, the paper was the 
     
     organ of Joseph Pope himself.l While nominally supporting 
     
     reform, the paper fiercely attacked the liberal members of 
     
     the House of Assembly and the liberal paper the Morning News 
     
     and Semi—Weekly Advertiser. Aside from these political con— 
     
     cerns, which occupied much of the space in its columns, the 
     
     Constitutionalist printed foreign and local news, fiction and 
     
     advertisements. 
     
    
   
   
    
     HOLDINGS 
     
     PAPEI masters Apr. 27, 1846 - Oct. 17, 1846 (1 reel). 
     
     PAPEI copy positives . Apr. 27, 1846 - Oct. 17, 1846 (1 reel). 
     
     FOOTNOTES 
     
    

    
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     W.L. Cotton, Chapters in our Island Story (Charlotte— 
     
     town, P.E.I.: Irwin Printing Co. Ltd., 1927), p. 94. 
     
    
   
   
    
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