, set out with Franklin for York Factory on the Hudson’s Bay Company ship Prince of Wales. Dr

Prince Edward Island in the 1840s. He settled at Alberton in western Prince County, where he established himself as a farmer, merchant, and shipbuilder. In 1849 he married Jane Bowness; she bore him no

Charlottetown, he was sent to serve in the parish of Rustico among the Acadians of Prince Edward Island. There he tried to improve the material lot of his people, as he had done by introducing agriculture to the

agents who toured the island selling books, pills, and the Casket. By 1858 the paper was sold by four agents in the peninsula, 13 on Cape Breton, and three in Prince Edward Island. No figures on

McClintock*’s sledge expedition to Prince Patrick Island. On 8 May 1854 he left Resolute, which was shortly to be abandoned, and led a party of invalids to North Star anchored at

to Prince Edward Island. He immediately began work as a land surveyor, and a few years later became a merchant in Charlottetown. By the end of the 1820s he was one of the leading importers on the

Columbia, and Vancouver Island was given permission to form a separate grand lodge as soon as it had ten primary lodges; by 1863 organizational work was under way in both Newfoundland and British Columbia

Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island legislatures would not adopt the plan that had been conceived at Quebec. Furthermore in the general election of March 1865 in New Brunswick the supporters of confederation

Burnard, a successful English merchant and shipbuilder, established a shipbuilding settlement, New Bideford (later Bideford), on the eastern end of Lot 12, Prince Edward Island, in 1818. A year later

. 20 Sept. 1810 in Prince Edward Island, son of James Coles and Sarah Tally; d. 21 Aug. 1875 in Charlottetown Royalty, P.E.I

, P.E.I. Nicholas Conroy was educated in Ireland before immigrating to northwestern Prince Edward Island with his father in 1835. He took up

became a teacher in the public schools of rural Prince Edward Island. On 1 Feb

Prince Edward Island as a representative of the New Brunswick Home Mission Board, and was invited to become pastor of the First Baptist Church in Charlottetown. At first he declined, but in 1858 he was

a new career, as colonial administrator. When Dundas arrived in Prince Edward Island on 7 June 1859 to take up his duties as lieutenant

. in February 1797 on the island of Elba, son of Lawrence Edward Ermatinger, assistant commissary general in the British army, and grandson of Lawrence

 McCulloch. Geddie was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Pictou on 2 May 1837. After working in various congregations he was called to Cavendish and New London, Prince Edward Island, and was

estate of Samuel Cunard* in Prince Edward Island. In 1850, after years of battle against Cunard’s “unrighteous” high rents, his father was forced

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

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

. In the meantime, under Kellett’s direction, M’Clintock and Mecham, on sledge journeys of great length, found no trace of Franklin, but added Eglinton and Prince Patrick islands to the map of the Arctic