suffragan was responsible for Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Cape Breton Island, and the Îles de la Madeleine. It was perhaps at MacEachern’s request that McKeagney agreed to go to Cape Breton in 1822

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

 October a travelling party from McClure’s ship, held fast off Banks Land, discovered that Prince of Wales Strait connected to Viscount Melville Sound. Melville Island, first discovered 34

Cumberland, N.S., and they had ten children; d. 7 Dec. 1812 on Prince Edward Island. Little is known of the early life of Thomas

Canada to Prince Edward Island, and Burn was instructed to keep the flock in New York for the summer. Not until June was Selkirk able to send an impatient and increasingly uncomfortable Burn further

Banks Island and, almost immediately, he discovered Prince of Wales Strait between it and Victoria Island. He managed to sail part way up the strait before becoming frozen in for the winter; further

. unmarried 14 July 1902 in St John’s. When Joseph Little emigrated from Prince Edward Island to St John’s in 1851, he went to join

of Prince Edward Augustus, commander-in-chief of the army in North America, over the troops in Newfoundland

Canada, he was persuaded to go to Prince Edward Island, to try his hand at farming or business. Shortly after his arrival in 1856, he entered a partnership to process and can lobster and pork. His wife

giving boxing exhibitions, returning to Prince Edward Island for this purpose a few years later. He also operated a gymnasium and boxing school in Boston and invested carefully in property in the area

London, England. The career of Walter Patterson is inextricably bound up with the land question, the foremost issue in Prince Edward Island

Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), where he died in 1752. Joseph-Nicolas had been an adept pilot, and this knowledge, as well as his anti-British

(Stellarton), Fraser travelled extensively throughout the county, his fluency in Gaelic being an important asset. He undertook missionary tours to Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick but, apart

stay in Boston, she went back to Prince Edward Island in 1874 and there married Abram Newcomb Archibald. The nine years of their marriage were mainly spent in Halifax, where her husband served as a

. In 1799 Calonne decided to leave with a small group of emigrés to develop lands his brother had received on Prince Edward Island that year. From the day he arrived, his main responsibility as

bishop’s order, he crossed to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). The bishop’s decision to send him there reflected the French government’s policy of attracting to the island the Acadians living under

MacEachern* of Prince Edward Island, who had responsibility for Cape Breton at this time, met MacDonell on his first pastoral visit there in 1823; he stated that the priest would need assistance in order

–73; Saint John, 1885–87), and Prince Edward Island (Tryon, 1873

(Cape Breton Island), and during the siege he led one of the brigades ordered to the Lorembec (Lorraine) area. Following the capture of Louisbourg, Rollo was sent to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island

attacks (his usual métier), a stanza from “The gull decoy” – a song he made on Prince Edward Island about a man rumoured to have cheated him of his proper wages – will set the tone