PRESBYTERIAN AND EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT UNION

PRESBYTERIAN AND Jan. 7, 1875 - June 25, 1885 (?). EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT UNION

LOCATION Charlottetown, P.E.I..

FREQUENCY Weekly on Thursdays, Jan. 7, 1875 - Feb. 27, 1879; Aug. 11, 1881 — June 25, 1885. Semi-weekly on Mondays and Thursdays, Mar. 1, 1879 — Aug. 4, 1881.

EDITOR AND Revd. S.G. Lawson, Jan. 7, 1875 — Aug. 4, PROPRIETOR 188l(?). PROSPECTUS

The Presbyterian and Evangelical Protestant Union was primarily

a religious newspaper, printing international religious news, sermons, Sabbath School lessons, attacks on Roman Catholicism and articles promoting temperance. The paper supported nonsectarian schools during the 18705 and during the late 18705 and early 18805 it supported the Conservative party. The Presbyterian and Evangelical Protestant Union also printed news, fiction, poetry, anecdotes and advertisements. It was succeeded by the Protestant Union.

HOLDINGS PAPEI masters Jan. 7, 1875 — June 25, 1885 (4 reels). CCL copy positives Jan. 7, 1875 — June 25, 1885 (4 reels). UPEI copy positives Jan. 7, 1875 — June 25, 1885 (4 reels). MISSING Jan. 1, 1880 — May 3, 1880. FOOTNOTES

lW.L. Cotton, Chapters in our Island Story (Charlotte- town, P.E.I.: Irwin Printing Co. Ltd., 1927), p. 97.

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