British infantry; d. 10 Dec. 1867 in Charlottetown, P.E.I. More than that of any other major figure in Prince Edward Island history, the

estate of Samuel Cunard* in Prince Edward Island. In 1850, after years of battle against Cunard’s “unrighteous” high rents, his father was forced

(McLellan Brook, N.S.), records. James Robertson, History of the mission of the Secession Church to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island from its commencement in 1765 (Edinburgh, 1847). Eastern

shipbuilder, and Janet Orr, daughter of one of the original proprietors in Prince Edward Island, he carried on the family pattern of political activity, respectable social position, and unbending devotion to

. C. MacMillan, The early history of the Catholic Church in Prince Edward Island (Quebec, 1905). Édouard Richard, Acadie, reconstitution d’un chapitre perdu de l

. The youngest of eight children, Peter McIntyre was early marked for the church. His parents had come to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island in 1790 as part of a large emigration from Highland Scotland

. Edward Palmer’s father, an Irish attorney, came to Prince Edward Island in 1802 as land agent for an absentee proprietor. From 1806 to 1812 the senior Palmer played a pivotal role in Island affairs, as

Presbyterian Church (1870), the best known of his several local churches, and in Charlottetown the Bank of Prince Edward Island (1867) and the Post Office (1871

l’Île Saint-Jean. Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), Miscou, and adjacent isles had been granted to the Comte de Saint-Pierre in August 1719, on condition that he colonize them. Gotteville

feelings on the subject,” he offered himself as a missionary and was sent to assist the Reverend Francis Metherall* on Prince Edward Island

. 1791 on Saint John’s (Prince Edward) Island, son of John MacDonald of West River and Margaret MacDonald of Glenaladale; m

owner became sick halfway across the Atlantic. In 1806 the family moved to Covehead on Prince Edward Island and took up 50 acres on Sir James Montgomery’s Lot 34. Apparently well educated, John’s

Boothia Peninsula. Having reached Peel Sound, Bellot and Kennedy continued west and crossed Prince of Wales Island before making their way back to Peel Sound and heading north to Cape Walker. Returning to

awarded an lld. Admitted to the Irish bar in 1790, he entered the colonial service in 1801 when he was nominated chief justice of Prince Edward Island

1850, after having declined previous offers of posts in the West Indies for fear of her health. He was knighted in February 1851 prior to his departure for Prince Edward Island. The colonial secretary

Regulation in North-Carolina). There is thus a disparity between his earlier notoriety and assessments of his subsequent career in St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, where, it has often been claimed

Merchants’ Bank of Prince Edward Island and of the Charlottetown Club, and in 1898 he was appointed an honorary lieutenant-colonel of the 4th (Prince Edward Island) Garrison Artillery Regiment

Telephone Company. The most important project in which Botsford became involved was the New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island railway. Prince Edward Island had been promised some means of “continuous

TYNG (Ting), EDWARD, merchant and naval officer; b. 1683 in Falmouth (now Portland, Maine), eldest son of Colonel Edward

Scotia, managed to secure his position as lieutenant governor of St John’s (Prince Edward) Island in 1787, he invited Aplin there to be solicitor general. Aplin’s immediate reaction to his new