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The Compass at first served as a community newspaper covering Conception Bay and Trinity Bay South. Later the coverage was extended to include St. Mary's Bay and Placentia Bay. For the first ten years of its life, the Compass contained almost entirely community news with separate columns for the happenings in each community, mostly social, personal, school and club news. In more recent issues, provincial news had been added and the community columns eliminated. The paper also contains poetry submitted by readers, television listings, government notices, fisheries news, advertisements, and letters to the editor. The editorials deal mostly with local matters and are often reprinted from other Robinson-Blackmore publications.

This newspaper's description was sourced from Suzanne Ellison's Historical Directory of Newfoundland and Labrador Newspapers.

Place of publication:
Carbonear

Dates of publication:
October 24, 1968-

Publisher:
Robinson-Blackmore Printing & Publishing Ltd.

Frequency:
Weekly

Editor:
Bill Bowman, -1994?
Heather May, 1994?-

Errata

Not published:
1981 Apr 17, Dec 25
1982 Jan 1
1984 Dec 26

Feb 1981 starts publishing Wednesday and Friday
Jan 1982 goes back to publishing Wednesday only

June 2, 1982 to February 2, 1983 the paper publishes a Conception Bay South edition, along with the regular edition, with only the first and sometimes the second pages being different from the two editions.

Issues by Month

1968:
Oct Nov Dec 1969: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1970: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1971: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1972: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1973: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1974: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1975: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1976: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1977: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1978: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1979: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1980: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1981: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1982: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1983: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1984: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1985: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1986: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1987: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1988: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1989: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1990: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1991: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1992: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1993: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

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