_The Examiner_ was started at Toronto, on the appointment of Lord Durham to the Government of Canada, as an organ of the Liberal party, by Mr. Francis Hincks, a young Irishman, who, from his first arrival in Canada, attracted attention as a financier and a journalist. _The Examiner_, however, had not a long existence, for Sir Francis Hincks--we give him his later title, won after years of useful public service as journalist and statesman--proceeded, in 1843, to Montreal, where he established the _Pilot_, which had much influence as an organ of the party led by Baldwin and Lafontaine. In 1844, a young Scotchman, Mr. George Brown, began to be a power in the politics of the Canadian Provinces. He was first connected with _The Banner_, founded in the interest of the Free Church party; but the Liberals found it necessary to have a special organ, and the result was the establishment, in 1844, of the Toronto _Globe_, at first a weekly, then a tri-weekly, and eventually the most widely circulated and influential daily paper in British North America. During the thirty-five years Mr. Brown remained connected with that journal it invariably bore the impress of his powerful intellect. The _Globe_ and George Brown were always synonymous in the public mind, and the influence he exercised over his party--no doubt a tyrannical influence at times--proved the power that a man of indomitable will and tenacity of purpose can exercise in the control of a political organ. From 1844 to the present time the newspaper press made progress equal to the growth of the provinces in population, wealth and intelligence. The rapid improvement in the internal communications of the country, the increase of post offices and the cheapness of postage, together with the remarkable development of public education, especially in Upper Canada, naturally gave a great impulse to newspaper enterprise in all the large cities and towns. _Le Journal de Quebec_ was established in 1842 by the Hon Joseph Cauchon, from that time a force in political life. Another journal, the _Minerve_, of Montreal, which had been founded in 1827 by M. Morin, but had ceased publication during the troubles of 1837-8, re-appeared again in 1842, and assumed that influential position as an exponent of the Bleus which it has continued to occupy to the present. _Le Pays_, _La Patrie_, and _L'Avenir_ were other Canadian papers, supporting the Rouges--the latter having been established in 1848, and edited by _l'enfant terrible_, M. J. B. Eric Dorion, a brother of Sir Antoine Dorion. In Upper Canada, Mr. R. Reid Smiley established, during 1846, the Hamilton _Spectator_, as a tri-weekly, which was changed to a daily issue in 1852. In 1848, Mr. W. Macdougall appeared for the first time as a journalist, in connection with the _Canada Farmer_; but when that journal was merged into the _Canada Agriculturist_, he founded the _North American_, which exerted no small influence as a trenchant,