(1822- 1909) newspaperman. (surname also given, evidently incorrectly, as Little). Born in Ireland. In Canada, where he arrived with his parents in 1834, he was at one time a part owner of the Bytown Gazette, and he founded the Constitutional at Perth. Afterwards, he founded another newspaper, also called the Constitutional, at Cornwall in the late 1840s, and he published and edited it there for a considerable number of years. He or another proprietor eventually renamed the paper the Advertiser. He is said also to have operated a Cornwall newspaper called the British Sentinel, which was “an opposition paper” to John Sandfield Macdonald’s Freeholder. In fact, the Constitutional was also an opposition paper to the Freeholder. Litle founded the Advertiser at L’Orignal, Ont., in 1868, and published it for many years. It was reported to have closed down in 1883, but in fact it was still operating in the 1890s. Litle died at L’Orignal. He is buried at Cassburn, Ont. Anglican. Conservative. He was married in 1851 to Ann Jane Kennedy. (eight children, seven surviving him) His death removed from the Canadian scene “one of the oldest and best known newspaper men in Canada,” active in journalism for over 60 years. Litle was not a Glengarrian, but he edited newspapers near GC and as a Cornwall newspaperman he published GC news.

The authorities for Litle’s life vary in their findings and must be used cautiously * obituary Cornwall Standard 19 March 1909 (QF) (repr. from Ottawa Citizen) * Thomas 528-529 (based on interview by Thomas?) * Harkness, 371 * Senior, Cornwall, 272 * Brault 164 * Clément 82 * Lovell 1857 341 * 1883 closure: Cornwall Freeholder 30 Nov. 1883, cited DTL, Standard Freeholder 29 Nov. 1947 “Lochinvar” (pen name). See McIntosh, William Alfred