Toronto Island (Toronto, 1984). W. E. Harding, Edward Hanlan, America’s champion oarsman . . . (New York, 1881). R. S. Hunter, Rowing in Canada since 1848
.
At the height of their influence, the Stewart family hosted a dinner party for the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, and his brother Prince George, when they visited Canada in 1927. As the
have turned from social or political questions towards a concentration upon his business, as typified by the joint speculation in Prince Edward Island land with Samuel
PECK, EDMUND JAMES, Church of England missionary, founder of the first permanent mission on Baffin Island (Nunavut), translator, and
. Though this grant was later rescinded, Spencer’s total landholdings either by grant or by purchase were at least 5,000 acres, located in the counties of Lennox, Addington, Prince Edward, Northumberland
late for him to sail for the West Indies. After being shipwrecked on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island he was detained at Halifax, in the prince’s service. The prince initiated him into freemasonry
1788, at Vanikoro, Santa Cruz Islands.
Jean-François de Galaup joined the navy as a midshipman at Brest on 19 Dec. 1756, and the following March
Catholic World (New York) and the Prince Edward Island Magazine (Charlottetown), she drew on her experiences amongst the natives, whom she presented in a sympathetic light. As the contributor
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
fishing monopoly on Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) and neighbouring islands, and a long series of court battles on both sides of the Atlantic ensued [see
that island and Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) – was concerned primarily with its resettlement and its development as a base from which to protect the lucrative cod-fishery, guard the gulf of
John’s (Prince Edward) Island, whose Catholic inhabitants had been without the services of a priest since the death of James
. In 1859 the Colonial Office appointed Ritchie a member of a three-man commission to investigate the land question in Prince Edward Island. Although he represented the interests of the absentee
serve under the prince at Halifax in 1795, and on 21 June of the same year he was promoted colonel in the army. Edward Augustus seems to have developed great trust in Despard’s abilities, and his
favoured people who in July 1767 received 20,000-acre grants in St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, being awarded Lot 56 in the east end of the Island. In 1770, embarrassed by his Irish expenses, he
island in Pigeon Lake near Bobcaygeon, where he started the Big Island Stock Farm; he later added the Red Deer Hill Stock Farm near Prince Albert (Sask.). Boyd bred horses, cattle, and sheep for show and
Grant. He wrote the section on Prince Edward Island and co-authored those on Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. Murray also became known as an author of hymns. In later years he took a railway
North America as lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island – DesBarres sued Mary and sub-agent Wellwood Waugh
airing. At DeLancey’s request, Joseph Aplin, former attorney general of Prince Edward Island, prepared an extensive legal defence of slavery. Aplin’s brief had no effect upon the case, however, and the
Antigonish, ed. R. A. MacLean (2v., [Antigonish], 1976), 2: 64. Casket (Antigonish), 8 Dec. 1887: 2. C. S. MacDonald, “Early Highland emigration to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward