En 1894, il a fondé à Victoria le Province, un journal hebdomadaire anti-conservateur, et quatre ans plus tard, il a déménagé sur le continent et relancé son journal avec l’appellation Vancouver Daily Province; celui-ci allait devenir le journal à plus fort tirage de la Colombie-Britannique.
In 1894, he founded the Province as an anti-Conservative weekly newspaper in Victoria, and four years later he moved to the mainland to re-found the paper as the Vancouver Daily Province; it would grow to have the largest circulation in British Columbia.