 In 1936 the New Brunswick industrialist K. C. Irving purchased the Saint John weekly "Maritime Broadcaster", which he used as the basis to start a daily newspaper, the "Citizen".After three years he sold the paper to Howard P. Robinson, the owner of the New Brunswick Publishing Co. Ltd. Robinson closed the "Citizen" and employed some of its staff on his two Saint John daily papers, the "Telegraph-Journal" and the "Evening Times-Globe".In 1944 Robinson sold his New Brunswick Publishing company to Irving.