Early Years
Edward Whelan was born in 1824 in Ballina, County Mayo, in Ireland. At a young age (probably 10 years old), he and his mother moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1831. Growing up in Halifax, he was greatly influenced by Joseph Howe, where he worked as a printing apprentice, as well as Father Richard Baptist O’Brien, a dynamic Irish priest who was a gifted orator as well as Whelan’s teacher at St. Mary’s School in Halifax. These two influences led Whelan to abandon his studies at the age of 18 to take up a position as editor of The Register, an Irish-Catholic, Liberal newspaper.
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