pretence. According to an anecdote often related by his contemporaries, on being introduced to Prince Edward Augustus

. S. MacDonald, “Early Highland emigration to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island from 1770–1853” and “West Highland emigrants in eastern Nova Scotia,” N.S. Hist. Soc

John in Nova Scotia, and then at Georgetown, St Peters Road, and Brackley Point on Prince Edward Island. He was so successful that in 1863 he was called to St Matthew’s Church in Halifax, the

Fanning* to assume several important official functions on Prince Edward Island. The elder Gray later married the daughter of Lieutenant George Burns, a proprietor and prominent public figure who had

* and John William Ritchie, appointed to investigate the tenant question in Prince Edward Island. In 1864

soldiers there. His wartime commander Fanning was appointed lieutenant governor of St John’s (Prince Edward) Island in 1786 and soon after invited Gray, whom he regarded as “a gentleman of superior

Lawrence*], Gueguen went to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) to escape the British. After a brief stay he boarded a schooner for Quebec. He reportedly entered the Petit Séminaire and studied there

, Galan, and Galand also appear), settler in Acadia and Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), founder of the Haché and the Gallant families of the Maritimes; b. c. 1663

Island of St John (Prince Edward Island), in charge of an exploring party. So little appreciated were the distances and the obstacles of the terrain that the party had to be rescued after three days

in Halifax and shortly after became interpreter and translator of German and French in the Vice-Admiralty Court. He was leading counsel for the proprietors before the Prince Edward Island land

1873. Pioneer (Summerside), 22, 29 Sept. 1880; 17 Aug., 5 Oct. 1881; 6 Sept. 1882; 29 June 1935. Prince Edward Island Agriculturist

transferred as a lieutenant to the 7th Foot, the regiment of Prince Edward* Augustus, commander of the forces in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. While

provisioners of the British forces during the American Revolutionary War. By July 1779 Hamilton was in the province of Quebec where he served an apprenticeship as a clerk at Montreal and at Carleton Island

 John’s (Prince Edward) Island, and they had five sons and seven daughters; d. 14 Sept. 1838 in Shediac Cape

HANLAN, EDWARD (Ned), oarsman, hotelier, and alderman; b. 12 July 1855

 9, A10 (records of New Brunswick), B7 (Nova Scotia), and C5 (Prince Edward Island). He followed these around 1909 with reports on resources in Manitoba and Saskatchewan (E2) and in British Columbia

an increased salary. From 1891 to 1894 he was professor of agriculture at Prince of Wales College, headed by Alexander Anderson*, in

archives at Warwick, England, from the Nova Scotia surveyor Charles Morris to one John Butler, agent for John Pownall, at that time proprietor of Lot 13 on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. The previous

School. He chose to remain on Prince Edward Island and officially resigned from his post in Saint John in August 1878. In his new appointments he played a crucial role in the implementation of age-graded

1871, shortly after returning to Canada, Harrington assisted John William Dawson, the principal of McGill College and later his father-in-law, in his research on Prince Edward Island. Together they