SUMMERSIDE PROGRESS

SUMMERSIDE PROGRESS July 16, 1866 — 1882.1 LOCATION Summerside, P.E.I.. FREQUENCY Weekly on Mondays. TITLE VARIES Summerside Progress and Prince County

Register, July 16, 1866 — July 8, 1867; Summerside Progress, July 15, 1867 — 1882.

PROPRIETOR Robert T. Holman, July 16, 1866 - 1869; Henry Lawson, 1869 - 1876; Thomas P. Gorman, 1876 - 1879; R. McDonald, 1879 — Jan. 1881; W.A. Brennan, Jan. 1881 - Feb. 1881; Simon Delaney, Feb. 1881 - 1882.

PUBLISHER Thomas Kirwin, July 16, 1866 — May 8, 1869; C.B. McNeill, 1879 - Jan. 1881; Progress Publishing Company, Jan. 1881 — Feb. 1881; Delaney and Gay, Feb. 1881 — 1882.

EDITOR Thomas Kirwin, July 16, 1866 — May 8,

1869; Henry Lawson, 1869 - 1876;

Thomas P. Gorman, 1876 - 1879; C.B. McNeill, 1879 — Jan. 1881.

PROSPECTUS

The Summerside Progress began publication in 1866 under the editorship of Thomas Kirwin and the ownership of Robert T. Holman. It was a politically independent newspaper which sup- ported the annexation of P.E.I. to the United States and op- posed Confederation. Other issues discussed in the paper in- cluded reciprocity, the railroad and education. Foreign and local news, fiction, poetry, anecdotes and advertisements were all printed in the Summerside Progress, with local news cover— age being especially good. Editorials were quick to criticize any government party.

In 1869, the Progress fell into the hands of Henry Lawson and it became a Liberal newspaper.2 Its Liberal bias was sustained in 1876 when Thomas P. Gorman became the paper's proprietor and editor. Over the next three years, the Summerside Progress de— fended the rights of the Irish and the French Catholics in Prince County. During the debate on the School Question, the paper opposed the Education Act and the Liberal Davies admini— stration for not supporting a separate school system.

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