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(and previously Bell & Woodburn's) printing business had been operating from since the building was constructed in 1867. The first edition was published on 10 December 1885, and in it Woodburn gave his reasoning for starting the paper. He stated that Ottawa was lacking an "able and independent" newspaper and needed a daily that was "of high moral tone, free from partizanship and party prejudices." Ottawa had an existing English-language newspaper, the Ottawa Citizen (then the Daily Citizen), which Woodburn

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