The Guardian Newspaper Canada is a daily newspaper published six days a week in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
The paper was originally launched in the 1870s as The Presbyterian and Evangelical Protestant Union, owned by Presbyterian minister Stephen G. Lawson. It adopted its current name in 1887.
After a succession of local owners, the newspaper was bought by Thomson Corporation in the 1950s, and by Southam Newspapers in 1996, and by Canwest Global in 2000 before then being purchased by Transcontinental Media in 2002.
The Guardian had a sister publication, The Evening Patriot, which was discontinued amid efficiency changes by the publishers.
While the slogan of The Guardian for many years has been ‘Covers the Island like the dew’, it remains principally a Charlottetown publication, with The Journal-Pioneer – also a Transcontinental property – in Summerside at the west and The Eastern Graphic in Montague to the east. While the daily weekday circulation was approximately 18,000 in 2010, it is assumed that circulation has since fallen, as it has in much of the daily newspaper industry.