proper attention to the business. Unlike fellow agent James Williams* on Prince Edward

, James Horsfield Peters*, became a justice of the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island and married the eldest daughter of Sir

). Nothing is known of William Rankin before his appearance in Prince Edward Island in the early 1830s. He was likely a kinsman of Coun Douly Rankin

Cochran. In April 1824 Ready was appointed lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island, but his departure was delayed by the ill health of

how far Newfoundland lagged behind the Canadas, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and even Prince Edward Island in terms of the progress of representative institutions. Once the paper appeared, agitation for

*]. In late July Thomson visited Prince Edward Island and met with Lieutenant Governor Sir

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

Haszard*’s Prince Edward Island Register. Whatever motivated his move, it was Palmer who provided White with one of his first known

 John’s (Prince Edward) Island, founded one of its many office-holding families, and was most remembered by contemporaries for the number of his offspring. George worked for him for years as deputy surveyor

York, went from Shelburne, where James was born, to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island probably in 1787. Unable to get an expected land grant, Samuel, a carpenter and cabinet-maker, settled his family

the expedition had penetrated as far as Melville Island, having discovered and named Prince Regent Inlet, Barrow Strait, Wellington Channel, and the North Georgian (Parry) Islands. The vessels wintered

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

Eastern British America, including Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, and Bermuda . . . ([Sackville], n.d.). T. W. Smith, Hist. of

. He suggested the construction of lighthouses at several dangerous points, including places on the coasts of Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Anticosti Island, St Paul Island, N.S., and on the

factors bringing about, in 1846, the union of the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Baptist associations to form the Baptist Convention of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island (now the United

d. each; they wanted ultimately to go to Cape Breton Island and Prince Edward Island. Although the trip was relatively brief, three

London for improperly entering into correspondence with the speaker of the House of Assembly in Prince Edward Island, Joseph Pope*, concerning

 1794 he immigrated to Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, and immediately began to conduct religious services around West Lake. Unable to support himself entirely through preaching

Young’s anonymous satire of the lieutenant governor, Viscount Falkland [Cary*], “The prince and his protégé

, which he leased out. In March 1832, by his marriage with Christiana, the daughter of Donald Montgomery, a member of the House of Assembly of Prince Edward Island, he had acquired business allies on