Nicholas Davin and the Rise of Regina. ('as We Were')

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Nicholas Flood Davin, the man who in 1883 established The Regina Leader(now The Leader-Post), was an adventuresome Irishman whose energetic life spanned a variety of careers: lawyer, journalist, publisher, politician, author, and poet.

From an affluent family in County Limerick, Davin was educated by private tutors, admitted to the English bar when he was 25, and two years later was a war correspondent for London Standard during the Franco-Prussian war. He came to Canada in 1872, working for two years for the Toronto Globe and then the Mail before establishing a law practice and running unsuccessfully for Parliament.

The Canadian Pacific Railway was still being built …