MONITOR(l)

MONITOR(1) May 5, 18571 - 1865(2).2 LOCATION Charlottetown, P.E.I.. FREQUENCY Semi-weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays,

May 23, 1857 — June 27, 1857; Weekly, July 9, 1857 — Dec. 29, 1864.

PUBLISHER J. Barrett Cooper, June 6, 1857 - Aug. 11, . 1864; J.B. Cooper & Son, Aug. 18, 1864 - Dec. 29, 1864. EDITOR AND J. Barrett Cooper, June 6, 1857 - Aug. 11, PROPRIETOR 1864. PROSPECTUS

The Monitor was a Protestant, Conservative newspaper which attacked the Roman Catholic church and Edward Whelan's Examiner. Local and foreign news, fiction, anecdotes and ad— vertisements were all printed in this paper. Confederation was also discussed in its columns.

HOLDINGS

PAPEI masters May 23, 1857 — Dec. 26, 1860 (1 reel). PAPEI copy positives May 23, 1857 — Dec. 26, 1860 (1 reel). CCL copy positives Jan. 1, 1862 — Dec. 29, 1864 (1 reel). UPEI copy positives Jan. 1, 1862 — Dec. 29, 1864 (1 reel). MISSING ' Jan. 2, 1861 — Dec. 25, 1861. FOOTNOTES

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W.L. Cotton, Chapters in our Island Story (Charlotte— town, P.E.I.: Irwin Printing Co. Ltd., 1927), p. 96.

2Dictionary of Canadian Biography, s.v. "Cooper, James Barrett," by Jean Layton MacKay.

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