GUARDIAN - contd.

GUARDIAN — contd.

MANAGER (contd.) J.P. Hood, Dec. 29, 1891 - Mar. 9, 1903

(business manager); July 2, 1912 — Jan. 30, 1913 (managing director);

J.R. Burnett, July 27, 1918 — Sept. 15, 1930; Sept. 16, 1930 - Sept. 20, 1951 (managing director);

Ian A. Burnett, June 16, 1953 - Feb. 8, 1954 (managing director); Feb. 9, 1954 — Dec. 15, 1954; Dec. 16, 1954 — Aug. 20, 1959 (general manager).

PUBLISHER Ian A. Burnett, July 23, 1956 — Aug. 20, 1959; W.J. Hancox, Sept. 26, 1959 - Apr. 30, 1979;

Stewart S. Vickerson, May 1, 1979 to date.

PRESIDENT J.P. Hood, July 2, 1912 - Jan. 30, 1913;

A.A. Bartlett, May 14, 1914 - Feb. 15, 1916; July 27, 1918 - Dec. 14, 1920;

Sir Charles Dalton, Dec. 24, 1920 - May 21, 1923;

W. Chester 8. McLure, May 22, 1923 - May 30, 1946;

Ian A. Burnett, May 31, 1946 — May 12, 1948; Sept. 21, 1951 — June 15, 1953.

PROSPECTUS

The Guardian, the successor to the Island Guardian, began pub— lication in 1890 as a politically independent newspaper printing news and advertisements. Its editorials often discussed trade and tariffs, and it supported temperance and the Scott Act. Local, national and international news coverage was excellent in the paper. Towards the end of the 1890s, headlines and line drawings illustrating the news stories began appearing in the Guardian.

The tone of the newspaper changed during the first decade of the twentieth century; its news coverage became more sensational and its editorials offered less political commentary. Special weekend issues were printed during the second half of this decade, featuring comic strips, housekeeping articles, popular songs, sermons, local history and Sunday School lessons. Photographs and line drawings appeared frequently during the final years of the decade.

Between 1910 and 1920, the Guardian started to support the Con- servative party, the result of a company of Conservatives having purchased it in 1912. During World War I, both the Union Govern— ment and compulsion found support in the Guardian's editorial

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