PUBLICATIONS
BELL ISLAND NEWSPAPERS
BELL ISLAND NEWSPAPERS
BELL ISLANDER
1941-1945
1941-1945
The Bell Islander was a weekly newspaper that featured local news, sports and history, and included local advertisements. It was owned and edited/written by Addison Bown on Bell Island.
The paper was set into type in Bay Roberts by David B. Russell, editor of the Bay Roberts Guardian, and his assistants. Taximan Albert Littlejohn would bring the material back and forth to a St. John's - Portugal Cove taximan who transhipped it to Bell Island. (Source: "History of the Bay Roberts Guardian," in www.johnrussell.name/guardian.htm. Accessed September 29, 2022.)
The Bell Islander ceased publication after a fire destroyed the printing equipment.
The only known copy is V. 7, No. 3, March 10, 1945, held by Archives and Special Collections, Memorial University Library. It is standard newspaper format and consists of four pages. There is some local advertising, several bereavement announcements and a Newfoundland Government declaration of the terms and conditions of the forming of the "Town of Bell Island." [The Town of Wabana was not incorporated until 1950.]
The paper was set into type in Bay Roberts by David B. Russell, editor of the Bay Roberts Guardian, and his assistants. Taximan Albert Littlejohn would bring the material back and forth to a St. John's - Portugal Cove taximan who transhipped it to Bell Island. (Source: "History of the Bay Roberts Guardian," in www.johnrussell.name/guardian.htm. Accessed September 29, 2022.)
The Bell Islander ceased publication after a fire destroyed the printing equipment.
The only known copy is V. 7, No. 3, March 10, 1945, held by Archives and Special Collections, Memorial University Library. It is standard newspaper format and consists of four pages. There is some local advertising, several bereavement announcements and a Newfoundland Government declaration of the terms and conditions of the forming of the "Town of Bell Island." [The Town of Wabana was not incorporated until 1950.]