Worrell*’s estate in Prince Edward Island. Following the discovery of gold in Nova Scotia in the 1860s, Morton held several mining claims in Halifax and Hants counties, and he was one of the original

., lumber from Halifax and Prince Edward Island, and flour from New York, and carried Methodist missionaries to Newfoundland free of charge [see James

. Young was appointed governor general of Canada and governor of Prince Edward Island on 29 Dec. 1868 and assumed office on 2 Feb. 1869. Shortly after arriving in Canada, he commented publicly on

the colonial regular troops, subdelegate of the financial commissary on Île Royale (Cape Breton Island) and Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island); b. c. 1690, probably at Port-Royal

when he married Anne, daughter of Edward Greene of London, although there is a possibility that he may have been the John Mason of Hampshire who matriculated from Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1602 (Dean

. No slave laws existed in the Maritimes, except in St John’s Island (later Prince Edward Island, where a 1781 slave baptism law legalized the institution until its repeal in 1825), yet owners

. Dawson’s paternal grandfather was an Irish officer in the British army who settled on Prince Edward Island. There his son Benjamin was born and educated, but by the late 1820s Benjamin had moved to Halifax

was a great-grandson of Thomas Desbrisay*, lieutenant governor of St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, and of the loyalist clergyman Mather

France and England. In 1884 his exports of lobster totalled nearly 750,000 pounds. Two years later he controlled about 15 canneries in Kent County and four in Prince Edward Island. In 1895 he owned 30 or

Griffith Island in Barrow Strait (N.W.T.). During the return voyage there was no opportunity to land him back at Cape York, so he went with the expedition to England, arriving in the autumn of 1851

*, who had been speaker of the Prince Edward Island Assembly in 1873–74. When a general election was called in New Brunswick in 1917, Melanson bowed out of political life, citing medical reasons

, called both Lucy Maud and Maudie as a child and Maud as an adult (she once asserted that “my friends call me ‘Maud’ and nothing else”), was raised in Cavendish near the north shore of Prince Edward Island

order to incite the Acadian population to emigrate in large numbers to the Chignecto isthmus and Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). It is noteworthy that from the parishes of these two priests

1899 to become a commercial traveller. But two years later he moved to Prince Edward Island to run the Halifax Breweries plant there, and by 1904 he was back in Halifax as general manager for the firm

learned that his wife had sought refuge on Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). Despite the risks of the trip, he went to the island, found his wife, and returned with her to go into hiding at Miramichi

, shortly after returning to Canada, Harrington assisted John William Dawson, the principal of McGill College and later his father-in-law, in his research on Prince Edward Island. Together they studied the

, and in 1854 he was instrumental in establishing many of the Free Church sessions on Prince Edward Island. Sutherland also played a major role in stabilizing the precarious financial position of the

Huyghue’s regiment was on garrison duty in Charlottetown at the time his first son was born, and the child was christened Samuel Douglass Smith Huyghue in honour of the lieutenant governor of Prince Edward

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

four colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton. Upham’s petitions containing these requests graphically describe the rigours endured by public servants in backwoods