ROYAL GAZETTE - contd.

PRINTER (contd.) Robert S. Duncan, May 3, 1947 — Jan. 13, 1949; Frederick F. Dillon, Mar. 19, 1949 - Sept. 12, 1959; G. William K. Auld, Jan. 22, 1966 - July 26, 1986;

Gordon Babineau, Aug. 2, 1986 to date.

PROSPECTUS

The Royal Gazette, the successor to the Royal Gazette and Prince Edward Island Recorder, began publishing in August of 1830. For the most part politically nonpartisan, it printed proclamations, official government notices, verbatim reports of the proceedings of the House of Assembly and the Legislative Council, inter— national news excerpts, fiction, poetry and local news. Local news reporting included descriptions of local events and meetings, and occasionally the annual reports of local organizations, for example, the Mechanics Institute.

In 1851, following the appointment of Edward Whelan to the position of Queen's Printer, the Royal Gazette came to have a decidedly Liberal bias. The Cole§_administration was defended and the Conservatives attacked in the editorials of the paper.

On February 24, 1854, John Ings was appointed Queen's Printer and the Royal Gazette reverted to its former nonpartisan stance.

Even follow1ng Whelan's reappointment as Queen's Printer on August 1 of the same year, the Royal Gazette remained impartial, as it was to be from that time forward.

During the late 18505, the Royal Gazette mainly printed official government notices, such as proclamations, appointments and statutes, along with some foreign news, anecdotes and oc— casional items of local news. By the mid-18605, everything ex- cept government notices had disappeared from the Royal Gazette.

Between 1870 and 1986, the essential character of the Royal Gazette as the official government newspaper of P.E.I. did not change. Only the number of notices and the number of different types of notices changed, increasing as time passed. In the 18705, the ROyal Gazette printed mainly notices of appointments, sheriff's sales, proclamations, warrants, writs, statutes, ten- ders and land assessments. Insolvent's notices, partnership notices, and some court decisions began to be printed in the 18805. By the turn of the century, court decisions had ceased to appear in the Royal Gazette, and executor's notices, admini- strator's notices, notices of dissolutions, sheriff's proclama— tions, Speeches from the Throne and lists of Acts passed at each sitting of the Legislature had begun to appear.

During the 19205, several new types of notices began to appear. These included mortgage sales, notices regarding letters patent,

139 contd....