. His father-in-law, Joseph-B. Poirier, who can be regarded as the forerunner of Acadian merchants on Prince Edward Island, had opened his first store in 1857, and his four sons would follow him in

expected, Eagleson was sent first to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island and then to Cornwallis Township, Nova Scotia. He was back in Cumberland in 1770, the first permanent Church of England clergyman in

ice from a glacier” from the Tlingit word for “wasting away”; Gwai-Gu-unlthin, meaning “the man who rests his head on an island”; Captain

acres of land in New York and the Canadas, as well as property in Prince Edward Island, Britain, and elsewhere, shares in the London and Montreal companies, ships, stock holdings, and mortgages. The

was responsible for building in Prince Edward Island, but it certainly ran into scores. He was a great traditional craftsman who played an important pioneering role in the establishment of an industry

legislation to establish the Intercolonial and Prince Edward Island Railways Employees’ Provident Fund. It provided pensions for employees who retired or who from illness or other causes were prevented from

. in February 1797 on the island of Elba, son of Lawrence Edward Ermatinger, assistant commissary general in the British army, and grandson of Lawrence

Acadia, Placentia (Plaisance), and Île Royale (Cape Breton Island), councillor of the Conseil Supérieur of Île Royale, king’s lieutenant and commandant of Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), knight of

English conference to send Francis Metherall* to Prince Edward Island and John Glass to Upper Canada. Discouraged by numerous difficulties

Edward Island, and outside the country he went to New England, Maryland, Britain, and France. He was in Rome several times and it was during a stay in the Eternal City in 1896 that he was found to have

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

he often talked of becoming a sailor. Family pressure kept him from accepting a commission in the 7th Foot, stationed at Quebec from 1791 to 1793. Prince

member, part owner, and later president of the Patriot Publishing Company, and a director and major shareholder of the Merchants Bank of Prince Edward Island. He also ran a starch factory at Long Creek and

* was already labouring, and Siam. There were difficulties with the southeast Asian location, however, and at the 1875 meeting of the Baptist Convention of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward

Upper Canada, where he farmed at East Zorra, near Woodstock. While at East Zorra, Fauquier came under the eye of Edward Huntingford, whose father had

in its support at a meeting of Queens County residents in Charlottetown in 1871. When Prince Edward Island became a province two years later [see James Colledge

secession. While his preference was for Maritime union, in the absence of strong support in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia was prepared to proceed alone. The electorate’s response

, Finlay was granted Lot 55 on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. Finlay’s

Canada, where, by his account, he “had the honour of attending” Prince Edward* Augustus. This

to the Prince Edward Island Association for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, and was an organizer in late 1849 of the Micmac Mission, a Protestant group dedicated to improving the lot of Island