SUMMERSIDE PROGRESS - cont

SUMMERSIDE PROGRESS - contd.

PROSPECTUS (contd.)

In 1879, the Progress was sold to R. MacDonald and it became a Liberal-Conservative newspaper under the editorship of C.B. McNeill, the Liberal-Conservatives supporting the Conservative party but favouring free trade. In January of 1881, the Progress was sold to W.A. Brennan, the proprietor of the Con- servative Summerside Journal. This sale was seen by the de- posed editor, C.B. McNeill, as inimical to the interests of the Liberal—Conservatives, and so, for a short time following the takeover, he published a rival paper, True Progress, from Charlottetown.

In February of 1881, the Summerside Progress was again sold, the purchaser being Simon Delaney. Delaney and Gay published the paper until 1882, when it finally folded.

HOLDINGS CCL copy positives July 16, 1866 — Jan. 15, 1872 (1 reel). UPEI copy positives July 16, 1866 - Jan. 15, 1872 (1 reel). MISSING May 31, 1869 - Jan. 8, 1872;

Jan. 22, 1872 — 1882. FOOTNOTES

lRobert Allan Rankin, Down at the Shore A History of Summerside, Prince Edward Island (1752-1945) (Charlottetown,

P.E.I.: Prince Edward Island Heritage Foundation, 1980), pp. 122-126.

21bid., pp. 122-126.

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