February 1798 McCallum and John McCallum of St John’s (Prince Edward) Island joined Casgrain in an association to trade and speculate in grain and other country products. In addition to advancing one

, overlooking Bedford Basin near Halifax. This hostelry was much frequented during the time Prince Edward* Augustus was at Halifax and throughout the

Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Bermuda. . . . ([Sackville], n.d.). I. C. Knowlton, Annals of Calais, Maine, and St. Stephen, New Brunswick

 vessels belonging to Canadian traders, including 8 of Nichol’s own. He duly reported the affair to Brock, noting also American troop movements at Detroit and Michilimackinac (Mackinac Island, Mich

.” That there was a measure of truth to the charge is evidenced by Palmer’s admission that he had “failed in his circumstances” before coming to Prince Edward Island as a land agent. He arrived in August

problems that most worried them. Isolation was one; all were exhorted to write to him frequently. From far-off Prince Edward Island Angus Bernard

miles from Pictou, and ministered at various communities in Prince Edward Island. In Pictou County Ross was an active and leading figure. Because of the

Capital,” he answered an advertisement from John Hill*, a proprietor of land on Prince Edward Island, for an attorney to supervise his properties

 Edward* Augustus, the fourth son of George III. He shared with the prince an enthusiasm for music and made himself useful by

. John Stewart arrived on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island in November 1775 with his father, recently appointed chief justice of the colony, his brother

unpopularity in St John’s and his evident want of judgement, something had to be done. In 1813 the British government thought that a solution had been found. On Prince Edward Island, Chief Justice Cæsar

Nelly, bound for Georgetown, St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. Although the failure to “earn bread sufficient to support . . . his family” was cited as the reason for leaving

WRIGHT, CHARLES, surveyor and office holder; b. 21 July 1782 on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, third son of Surveyor

lack of education in the law rather than from wilful disobedience. He was compensated with the post of lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island, which fell vacant while he was in London

honorary lld from the University of Glasgow and accepted the chief justiceship of Prince Edward Island after being assured that he would not have to live there. In November

. After spending six weeks in St John’s, Auffray managed to get to Prince Edward Island, to the Acadian village of Cascumpec not far from Tignish on the northwestern coast. Since he was able to read and

August 1808, with the assistance of James Bardin Palmer* of Charlottetown, Binns sailed for Prince Edward Island to set up an agency to

(Prince Edward) Island from Shelburne, N.S. in 1784. He soon prospered as a merchant, and took John’s father into the firm. Ralph died when John was only 13, leaving an estate of almost £25,000, most

Harvey* from Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick to negotiate a settlement with the assembly along the lines earlier agreed to by the Colonial Office

Campbell, an obscure country gentleman descended from “an ancient branch of the noble House of Campbell” in Argyll, should have been appointed lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island on 20 Oct. 1847