PROTESTANT AND EVANGELICAL WITNESS

PROTESTANT AND July 5, 1859 — July 1, 1865(?). EVANGELICAL WITNESS LOCATION Charlottetown, P.E.I. FREQUENCY Weekly on Saturdays. EDITOR AND David Laird. PROPRIETOR PROSPECTUS

The Protestant and Evangelical Witness, the successor to the Protector and Christian Witness,1 was a religious newspaper which

printed Protestant church news and theological articles, along with local and international news, advertisements, and anecdotes. The paper supported temperance and attacked the Roman Catholic church and the Catholic paper the Vindicator. It also discussed education, the Land Question and Confederation. The Protestant and Evangelical Witness was the forerunner of the Patriot.2

HOLDINGS

PAPEI masters ‘ July 5, 1859 - Jan. 4, 1862 (1 reel). 1) March 28, 1863 & 2) April 11, 1863 (2 issues only) (1 reel). CCL copy positives July 5, 1859 — July 1, 1865 (3 reels). 1) March 28, 1863 a 2) April 11, 1863 (2 issues only).

UPEI copy positives July 5, 1859 - Juy 1, 1865 (3 reels).

FOOTNOTES

1W.L. Cotton, Chapters in our Island Story, (Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Irwin Printing Co. Ltd., 1927), p. 93.

2Ibid., p. 93.

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