tradition, Hutchinson appreciated the relationship between politics and office in Prince Edward Island. In 1847 he joined a number of influential merchants, magistrates, and members of the legislature from

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

PRO, CO 226/39, pp.202–10. Islander, 13 Dec. 1861. Prince Edward Island Register (Charlottetown), 13 Sept. 1823–24 Jan. 1824. Vindicator (Charlottetown

. John Montgomery’s father was a magistrate in Prince County, P.E.I, and for many years a member of the assembly for the county. John was educated in public schools in Prince Edward Island and moved to New

the small army detachment in Prince Edward Island, and served as acting deputy quartermaster general for the Nova Scotia command from November 1830 to September 1831

; a lecture, delivered in St. Dunstan’s Cathedral, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, on Thursday, August 16, 1860

to Prince Edward Island which was in a period of rapid growth and change owing to a heavy influx of immigrants, mostly from Scotland. On the Island, in 1827, he underwent a deep spiritual awakening

(McLellan Brook, N.S.), records. James Robertson, History of the mission of the Secession Church to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island from its commencement in 1765 (Edinburgh, 1847). Eastern

. Eventually, O’Brien, through his extensive wholesale-retail trade, was importing coal from Sydney, N.S., vegetables from Prince Edward Island, lumber from the Miramichi in New Brunswick, molasses from Barbados

. Continuing as fishery commissioner, Perley visited Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, and other areas. In the summer of 1862 he became ill on board the Desperate while inspecting the fisheries off

PRINCE, JOHN, lawyer, farmer, soldier, politician, and judge; b

’ second-in-command being Lieutenant William Edward Parry*, captain of the latter vessel. The well-equipped expedition was to enter Davis

Frederick, unlike his three brothers, was given neither a good education nor an inheritance. Prince Albert, with whom his eldest brother had developed a friendship, intervened on Frederick’s behalf in 1842 to

. c. 1794 in Rupert’s Land, eldest son of Chief Factor William Sinclair from the Orkney Islands

County, in eastern Prince Edward Island, for £20,000, and about 1850 he returned to North America as an independent gentleman. He soon acquired some of the usual appurtenances of a landed proprietor

5 Oct. 1864 with a complete retraction by Reilly, but not before this libel case had become probably the most sensational news item in Prince Edward Island in the year of the Charlottetown

British infantry; d. 10 Dec. 1867 in Charlottetown, P.E.I. More than that of any other major figure in Prince Edward Island history, the

the goodwill of his congregation. He was appointed archdeacon of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island in 1825, and in April of the same year, chaplain to the Nova Scotia Legislative Council, a post he

County, Prince Edward Island. There Yeo worked as superintendent of the lumbering gangs and helped with the management of the stores in the lumbering, shipbuilding, and mercantile business established by

United States, particularly in government bonds, and in insurance and banking stocks. He also held stock in several banks and public utilities in Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and