''The Guardian'' is a daily

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published six days a week in

Charlottetown Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, Charlottetown was an unincorporated town until it was incorporated as a city in ...

Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island (PEI; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the smallest province in terms of land area and population, but the most densely populated. The island has several nicknames: "Garden of the Gulf", ...

, Canada. The paper was originally launched in the 1870s as ''The Presbyterian and Evangelical Protestant Union'', owned by

Presbyterian Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism that broke from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland by John Knox, who was a priest at St. Giles Cathedral (Church of Scotland). Presbyterian churches derive their n ...

minister Stephen G. Lawson. It adopted its current name in 1887. After a succession of local owners, the newspaper was bought by

Thomson Corporation The Thomson Corporation was one of the world's largest information companies. It was established in 1989 following a merger between International Thomson Organisation Ltd (ITOL) and Thomson Newspapers. In 2008, it purchased Reuters Group to fo ...

in the 1950s.

Southam Newspapers Postmedia Network Canada Corp. (also known as Postmedia Network, Postmedia News or Postmedia) is a Canadian media conglomerate consisting of the publishing properties of the former Canwest, with primary operations in newspaper publishing, news ...

acquired the paper from Thomson in 1996, before being itself acquired by

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in 2000. Canwest sold the paper to

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in 2002, before being sold to

SaltWire Network SaltWire Network Inc. is a Canadian newspaper publishing company owned by the Dennis-Lever family of Halifax, Nova Scotia, owners of ''The Chronicle Herald''. Saltwire owns 23 daily and weekly newspapers in Atlantic Canada.

, a newly formed parent company of ''

The Chronicle Herald ''The Chronicle Herald'' is a broadsheet newspaper published in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada owned by SaltWire Network of Halifax. The paper's newsroom staff were locked out of work from January 2016 until August 2017. ''Herald'' management con ...

'', in April 2017. ''The Guardian'' had a sister publication, ''The Evening Patriot'', which was discontinued in 1995 amid efficiency changes by the publishers. While the slogan of ''The Guardian'' for many years has been 'Covers the Island like the dew', it remains principally a Charlottetown publication, with the ''

Journal Pioneer The ''Journal Pioneer'' is a weekly newspaper published in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Two men named Bernard and Bertram founded the ''Summerside Journal'', a weekly newspaper, in 1865. Under the leadership of A.R. Brennan, the '' ...

'' in Summerside to the west and ''The Eastern Graphic'' in Montague to the east. In 2010, the daily weekday circulation was approximately 18,000. ''The Guardian'' is currently printed in Halifax.

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* Daily newspapers published in Prince Edward Island Mass media in Charlottetown SaltWire Network publications Publications established in the 1870s 1870s establishments in Prince Edward Island {{PrinceEdwardIsland-stub

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