PROTESTANT UNION

PROTESTANT UNION July 2, 1885 - DeC. 30, l886(?). LOCATION Charlottetown, P.E.I.. FREQUENCY Weekly on Thursdays. PUBLISHER Presbyterian and Evangelical Protestant Union Printing and Publishing Company. EDITOR Revd. Stephen G. Lawson(?).l PROSPECTUS

The Protestant Union, the successor to the Presbyterian and Evangelical Protestant Union,2 was primarily a religious newspaper. It printed international religious news, sermons, Bible studies, local church news, attacks on the Roman Catholic church and moral essays. News, agricultural articles, fiction, poetry, anecdotes and advertisements were all published in this paper as well. The Protestant Union was succeeded by the

Guardian.3

HOLDINGS PAPEI masters . July 2, 1885 - Dec. 30, 1886 (1 reel). PAPEI copy positives July 2, 1885 — Dec. 30, 1886 (1 reel). FOOTNOTES

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

2Ibid., p. 97. 3

Ibid., p. 97.

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