PROTECTOR AND CHRISTIAN WITNESS

PROTECTOR AND CHRISTIAN Mar. 4, 1857 ~ Dec. 22, 1858(?). WITNESS

LOCATION Charlottetown, P.E.I..

FREQUENCY Weekly on Wednesdays.

PUBLISHER Geo. T. Haszard.

EDITOR Committee of Protestant Gentlemen. PROSPECTUS

The Protector and Christian Witness, which had merged with Haszard's Gazette in March of 1857,I was a Protestant news— paper which published religious articles. It opposed Roman Catholicism and advocated Bible reading in the schools. Some foreign and local news, anecdotes and advertisements were also

printed in it. The Protector and Christian Witness was suc— ceeded by the Protestant and Evangelical Witness.2

HOLDINGS PAPEI masters Mar. 4, 1857 - Dec. 22, 1858 (1 reel). PAPEI copy positives Mar. 4, 1857 — Dec. 22, 1858 (1 reel). FOOTNOTES

1

W.L. Cotton, Chapters in our Island Story (Charlotte— town, P.E.I.: Irwin Printing Co. Ltd., 1927), p. 93.

2Ibid., p. 93.

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