in 1773, and that of another group of Scots, who had initially established themselves on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, in 1774, added to the stability of the community

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

; d. unmarried 16 July 1913 in Halifax. William Harris was brought to Prince Edward Island in 1856 by his parents, with four siblings. After

problem that was adopted six years later. None the less, he continued to seek employment in the colonies and in April 1836 he was appointed lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island

loyalists who immigrated to Prince Edward Island in 1785. At an early age James was apprenticed to his uncle, James D. Bagnall*, who was king’s

, the Haviland name in Prince Edward Island was associated with wealth, political influence, and the tory cause. The elder Thomas Heath Haviland had, after his emigration to the Island in 1816

minor position in the Naval Victualling Office in Chatham, England, Thomas Heath Haviland immigrated in 1816 to Prince Edward Island. There he became provost marshal, a post he later described as “a

Maritime provinces. Hay assumed financial responsibility and editorial control, with associate editors for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and after 1897 devoted his full attention to educational

the parent company in 1903 to conditions which would ultimately ruin the GTP and the Grand Trunk. The selection in 1905 of the site of Prince Rupert, on Kaien Island, B.C., as the western terminal was

-old Robert Poore Haythorne arrived in Prince Edward Island in October 1841 aboard the Glenburnie, his prospects were bright. He came to join his elder brother Edward Curtis, who had emigrated

the Bank of Prince Edward Island, founded in 1856, and he sat on its board until its cessation of business in 1881. He retired from banking in 1900. Even though he did not reach the first rank of the

land question on Prince Edward Island, the new tory government established a commission in 1860 to investigate problems arising from the leasehold tenure system that prevailed. Along with New Brunswick

. 6 June 1773 Elizabeth Prince at Boston, Massachusetts; d. April 1783 at Charlottetown, St John’s (Prince Edward) Island

 John’s (Prince Edward) Island, initially in partnership with Edward Lewis, mp

Halifax between 1861 and 1864. It seems surprising, therefore, that on the marriage of the Prince of Wales to Princess Alexandra of Denmark in 1863, Nova Scotia’s lieutenant governor, Lord Mulgrave

defeat in Oxford County by Robert Riddell to the Scots of Zorra Township whose Presbyterian conscience he had offended when he supported John Prince

England; m. 8 June 1797 Rebecca Robinson in Charlottetown, St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, and they had at least one son; d. there 5 Jan. 1811

in Halifax and was called to the bars of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island in 1819. He then took up residence in Charlottetown and pursued an active career as a lawyer, land agent, and politician

one daughter; for about ten years they lived near Bideford, Devon. At age 34, Holl immigrated to Prince Edward Island with his wife and family