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Prominent Newspapers of the Pacific Coast

III. The Vancouver Province

By J. B. Kerr


THE PROVINCE is the youngest amongst the important daily newspapers of British Columbia. It is, at the same time, the largest, the most enterprising, and possesses much the largest circulation. Its success is attributable to the same causes to which the great newspapers of the East owe that which they have achieved; and while the sphere of The Province, as compared with that of the great dailies of the East, is necessarily circumscribed, it can truthfully be said that within its own boundaries it possesses as much influence, enjoys as much confidence and satisfies as fully the needs of its constituents as do the widely circulated journals of the great centers of population.

Before everything, The Province is a news carrier. It seeks to be, and as far as possible is, an impartial chronicler of the daily occurrences of importance throughout the world. Every department of the paper is