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1970-1977, 1986 (Creation)
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- Large, Brenda, ca. 1944-
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- 5.5 m of textual records
- 2 videocassettes
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Journalist Brenda Large of Charlottetown, P.E.I. worked for the Ottawa bureau of the Canadian Press for five years. In April 1970 she married Nick Fillmore, editor of the alternative bi-weekly newspaper The 4th Estate, which was owned and published in Halifax by the Fillmore family company, N.I.F. Publishing Ltd. (incorporated 1969). Large joined the paper in 1970 as associate editor and became co-owner and co-publisher with her husband in January 1973. Under their guidance, The 4th Estate became a weekly paper featuring local and national current affairs, politics, business, art and entertainment. Large became sole owner and publisher of The 4th Estate and president of N.I.F. Publishing in November 1976. The paper went bankrupt and ceased publication in 1977, after which Large joined CBC television in Toronto. She later returned to Charlottetown, P.E.I. where she was residing as of 1998.
Custodial history
Large deposited the bulk of material at the Public Archives of Nova Scotia in 1978 following the bankruptcy of The 4th Estate. Subsequent accruals were received in 1991 and 1996, and the fonds was formally donated in 1997.
Scope and content
Fonds consists of records documenting the administration and operation of Large's newspaper The 4th Estate. Fonds contains case and subject files which contain correspondence, memoranda, legal and financial records, reports, newspaper clippings, notes, draft manuscripts, and other items. Also includes files relating to Voices Down East, a literary publication of The 4th Estate established in 1972, which featured Maritime writers. Photographs which appeared in The 4th Estate are also found among the textual records. Also contains two VHS videocassettes entitled '4th Estate' (1977) and 'South Africa' (1986).
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The 4th Estate newspaper 1969-1977 available online.
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Formerly known as Brenda Large - "The 4th Estate".