Canadian printer & publisher . to the manwith the truck and the garbage cans while the ink is still freshon the message. did garrison duty in the fort. The late P. G. Laurie was thefather of Mr. Wm. Laurie, barrister, now residing in Cardston. First Saskatchewan Paper North Battleford:—Forty-two years ago this month thefirst newspaper was published in Saskatchewan. After ajourney of 650 miles over boundless prairies and unbridgedstreams, the late P. G. Laurie, following the brigade of RedRiver carts which carried his plant, reached Battleford, thecapital of the Northwest Territories, and print
Canadian printer & publisher . to the manwith the truck and the garbage cans while the ink is still freshon the message. did garrison duty in the fort. The late P. G. Laurie was thefather of Mr. Wm. Laurie, barrister, now residing in Cardston. First Saskatchewan Paper North Battleford:—Forty-two years ago this month thefirst newspaper was published in Saskatchewan. After ajourney of 650 miles over boundless prairies and unbridgedstreams, the late P. G. Laurie, following the brigade of RedRiver carts which carried his plant, reached Battleford, thecapital of the Northwest Territories, and printed the first editionof the Saskatchewan Herald on the 25th of August, was a four-paged sheet 14 inches by 10, and contained as wellas the news of the vast territories telegraphic communicationsfrom all parts of the world. The Herald has continued topublish weekly from that time to the present with theexception of during the Northwest Rebellion in 1885, whenpublication was suspended for six weeks while the late editor.
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