![]() ![]() ![]() Le Courier de la Nouvelle Caledonie 1858.News Letter for Vancouver Island and New Caledonia 1858.Between 18, ten newspapers were started in Victoria, half of them dailies: Years, some determined to put the news pioneer out of business, some Was a harbinger of others a small host of them over the next five ![]() Like the first gold-seekers, Vancouver Island's first newspaper To regard both colonies as private fiefdoms, and he ran them Time, he was chief factor for the Hudson's Bay Company, which tended Douglas was governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island andĪlso of the separate Mainland Colony of British Columbia. ![]() Newspaper, and both press and newspaper must have been regardedĪs very mixed blessings indeed by Governor James Douglas, whoseįear of American domination, even annexation, was never far from the Soon, the press was producing the young colony's first Prospectors, storekeepers, outcasts, land-sharks and other Victoria from San Francisco, and so did hordes of American To the British colony of Vancouver Island on the mad tide that was theįraser River gold rush of 1858. The first modern printing press on what is now Canada's west coast came Based on a research paper done at the University of Victoria graduate history department in 1973. By Hugh Doherty: Copy editor, city editor, The Daily Colonist, Victoria, B.C., 1968-73. ![]()
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