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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