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Letter, 8 March 1879
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CA MUA MG 1022-2-1-136-0015
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(1809-1889)
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William Gossip was born in 1809 in Plymouth, England.
He was a publisher, bookseller, and journalist. In the early 1820s, he moved with his family to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he received his education. In 1831, he moved to Pictou where he published and edited the Pictou Observer. In 1834, he discontinued the Observer, returned to Halifax, and established stationery, bookselling, and publishing business there. With his brother-in-law John Charles Coade as a partner, he began a new weekly, the Times, the most influential of the Conservative newspapers in Nova Scotia. In 1847, they started another more partisan weekly, the Standard and Conservative Advocate. Between 1848 and 1858, Gossip published the Anglican Church Times and continued with his stationery and bookselling business. He was a member of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science and served as the first editor of the institute’s annual Proceedings and Transactions (1863-1889). He published several papers on the anthropology and geology of Nova Scotia.
In 1832, he married Anne Catherine Coade. He died on April 5, 1889, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Letter from Wm. Gossip to John William Dawson, written from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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- Dawson, John William, Sir, 1820-1899 (Recipient)