supernumeraries and ministers’ widows patterned after the English model. Again demonstrating his administrative skills, Knight served as chairman of the Nova Scotia west district (including Prince Edward Island) as

from Cacouna to Rimouski on the south side of the St Lawrence, as well as to Acadia, St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, and Cape Breton Island. In 1773, however, Joseph-Mathurin Bourg took over

1730 was considered a nuisance. In 1750 the president of the council of Marine decided to send the old man to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), to which the French government hoped to attract

MacDonald*, of Charlottetown, P.E.I., on the need for priests to work in the Acadian parishes. Lafrance went to Prince Edward Island with the bishop in 1838 and after studying at St Andrew’s College

Prince Edward Island in 1819 as a member of a colonization party organized by William Epps Cormack*, a prosperous landlord in the New

elder Laird had been a liberal in politics, a sometime radical on the Prince Edward Island land question, and a staunch Presbyterian. Having broken ranks with the liberals on the Bible question, he had

shipbuilder, and Janet Orr, daughter of one of the original proprietors in Prince Edward Island, he carried on the family pattern of political activity, respectable social position, and unbending devotion to

affairs, particularly after 1832. He was involved in the achievement of independence by Belgium and Greece and in the accession of Prince Leopold to the throne of Belgium, and then was entrusted in July

learn to read in monitorial day- and Sunday schools, proliferated in the colonies: Nova Scotia (1810), Lower Canada (1812), Upper Canada (1816), Prince Edward Island (1817), New Brunswick (1819), and the

society, including in Halifax, Prince Edward* Augustus, to whom his father was a well

Prince Edward Island in the early 1860s to work with Father George-Antoine Bellecourt* in

years later Lane was given command of a subaltern’s detachment at Charlottetown. With the army reduction of 1818 he went on half pay and settled in Prince Edward Island where he took up the duties of

council planned to put settlers from New England on the vacated Acadian lands of the Chignecto isthmus as a barrier between the French in Île Royale and Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) and the

near Muthill, Scotland; m. Ellen –, and they had five children; d. after 1803 on Prince Edward Island. A Perthshire flax farmer, David Lawson

 Acadians across to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) [see Gabriel

discussions in Paris, the French attempted to reinforce their claims to the region north of the Missaguash and to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) by using the Indians to harass the British and restrict

minister to about 15 Acadian families at Havre-Aubert on the Îles de la Madeleine. His services were divided between this outpost and the Acadian settlements on Cape Breton and St John’s (Prince Edward

 Charlottetown. Originally from Lincolnshire, England, the Lea family settled in the Tryon area of Prince Edward Island in about 1818, and several of

 John’s (Prince Edward) Island, whose Catholic inhabitants had been without the services of a priest since the death of James

for a generation. The establishment of Catholic bishoprics in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island had begun in the 1820s, at a time when it was assumed that the needs of English