Bornaskitaig, Scotland, and they had three daughters and three sons; d. 6 Dec. 1827 on Prince Edward Island.
Angus Macaulay was related to the
, had emigrated to Prince Edward Island with about 40 kinsmen in 1806. He purchased 10,000
. 25 Dec. 1797 at Allisary, St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, one of ten children of Angus MacDonald and Penelope MacDonald; d. 30 Dec. 1859 at St Dunstan’s College, near
discuss the possibility of a legislative union of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island [see Arthur Hamilton Gordon
. 1791 on Saint John’s (Prince Edward) Island, son of John MacDonald of West River and Margaret MacDonald of Glenaladale; m
MACDONALD, RONALD, educator and newspaper editor; b. February 1797 in Priest Pond (Prince Edward Island), son of John Macdonald
lairds bearing the title Glenaladale. In 1772 he transported over 200 Highlanders to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, where he had purchased 20,000 acres of farm land. His son Donald, who became a
colony on the Red River. His trip to North America in 1803–4 had been associated with the founding of settlements on Prince Edward Island and at Baldoon, Upper Canada. In 1804 he had hired Macdonell’s
minister of the interior, David Laird* from Prince Edward Island, was appointed by Mackenzie in 1876 to the lieutenant governorship of the North-West
inquire into the state of higher education in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. The report, fair-minded and cool, was produced quickly. It gave high marks to Mackenzie’s Dalhousie
.
Eliza Margaret MacKenzie was born and raised in the Belfast area of Prince Edward Island, a region that produced several women physicians during an era when such individuals were rare. She was first
years old.
Mackieson was also active in other areas of medicine. In 1856, for example, as chairman of the Prince Edward Island Medical
the country, its evangelizer and moral exemplar.
In 1881, after an early childhood spent in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, Mackinnon
been born in Scotland and his mother was a descendant of settlers who had come to Prince Edward Island in 1803 with the Earl of Selkirk
of his men settled on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. Maclean himself later received a land grant there along with several other Maclean gentry, but he does not appear to have settled on the
–38 was later the subject of much recrimination in Prince Edward Island, and it appears, from his own account and the testimony of prominent Montrealers several years afterwards, that he was on the
Lovely Nelly bound for St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. The following year the
.
Andrew Macphail was the son of a well-respected Scottish-born teacher who became one of the most effective school visitors in 19th-century Prince Edward Island. Shortly before Andrew’s birth, his parents
certain “pecuniary embarrassments,” Peter Magowan immigrated in 1789 to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, where he was immediately admitted an attorney by the Supreme Court. The following year he was
the settlements on Île Royale, Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), and, until Le Loutre arrived, those in English Acadia (Nova Scotia). His intermittent presence among the Indians made