. Francis Kelly completed his schooling in Dublin, where he worked as a teacher and law clerk. Sometime before he emigrated to Prince Edward Island in May 1835, he married Catherine Lennon of

, Prince Edward Island included, an incident that may have influenced Newfoundland’s willingness to at least consider confederation in 1864 and 1865. “We cannot soon forget,” said the Newfoundlander

Eskimo report only. If the isthmus existed, then King thought – rightly, as it turned out – that the land north of it, named North Somerset (now Somerset Island) by Ross, was a part of the

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

METHERALL, FRANCIS, Bible Christian minister, founder of the Bible Christian mission in Prince Edward Island; b

Banks Island and, almost immediately, he discovered Prince of Wales Strait between it and Victoria Island. He managed to sail part way up the strait before becoming frozen in for the winter; further

say nothing of Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland; although the Morning Chronicle would not say flatly that it opposed a colonial union, it felt, on the whole, that Nova Scotia should leave

ordination, and he remained there until spring 1830. At that time Father McDonald departed for Prince Edward Island taking with him 206 Scots and Irish as tenants for the lands he had inherited. He settled the

. Ian Ross Robertson Prince Edward Island, Supreme Court, Estates Division

one of Osborn’s closest friends. In spring 1851, Osborn led a sledge party south-westward to the western extreme of Prince of Wales Island. This 500-mile journey revealed no undiscovered coasts and

Henry Pope received his early education in Prince Edward Island and proceeded to higher studies in England, from which his father had emigrated in 1819. William read law at the Inner Temple in

REILLY, EDWARD, journalist and politician; b. 1839 or 1840 in Prince .Edward Island; d. 29 March 1872

1845 to 1858. See also: CO 226/91, 173–75; 226/92, 11–21; 226/94, 144–51. Prince Edward Island

Campbell, whose resignation they sought, had been replaced by Sir John Harvey*, the governor of Prince Edward Island

American shipbuilding in the early nineteenth century with special reference to Prince Edward Island,” in The south-west and the sea, ed. H. E. S. Fisher (Exeter Papers in Economic

Edward Island on 29 Dec. 1868 and assumed office on 2 Feb. 1869. Shortly after arriving in Canada, he commented publicly on Canada’s independence within the empire and her freedom “to continue

scientific acquirements” and thanks for the assistance he had rendered. Henceforth, Bayfield worked mainly on the coasts of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. His staff gradually increased to include three

opening service of St Peter’s Cathedral, founded by him as a cathedral church for Prince Edward Island outside the normal jurisdiction of the parish church of Charlottetown, St Paul’s. Here, as in

music and grammar lessons. He then went to Prince Edward Island where he became friendly with a number of English-speaking families and quickly mastered the mysteries of their language

. Mark Butcher, a member of a family of cabinetmakers, immigrated with his parents to Prince Edward Island in 1829. In February 1835 he announced the opening of a workshop in Charlottetown to