and agricultural spheres. Epecially the town of New |
Westminster, formerly the capital of the mainland, _
was progressing, and in 1861, the ‘British Colum-
f - bian’’ was founded under the capable guidance of
John Robson, who later became Prime Minister in
; British Columbia. Little is known as to the ultimate
history of this paper, but, of course, there were many
- other newspapers starting up as the district grew in \
population. In the early period of popularization of \

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the mainland, newspapers intended for distribution

in that section of the province were printed on Van-
couver Island, even the “Province” until W. C. Nichol,

later Lieutenant-Governor, purchased the plant and _
moved it to Vancouver where it enjoys today the —
_ reward of faithful service to citizens. It might be _
; stated that within the past few years this paper has —
been operated by the Southam Press as ihe Western |
unit of its chain of newspapers extending the entire
breadth of Canada. (|
So far, we have only mentioned newspaper work i

in describing the introduction of printing, chiefly on
account of its being the only means of educational

expression necessary to such a vigorous and floating i
| population for some few years. However, as the |
years went by, man’s natural instinct for cultural
- growth led to the printing of books. One of the first

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