lord advocate of Scotland, James William Montgomery, Lot 36 on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, and, with the assistance of the Roman Catholic Church, undertook to settle there not only tenants

. 1785 on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. James MacDonald was one of those bright lads the Scottish Catholic Church liked to send abroad for

(Prince Edward) Island; his mother’s sister was the widow of John MacDonald* of Glenaladale, who in 1772 had founded its first

for the Highland and Acadian settlements on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, which had been without a priest since the death of James

MacEachern* of Prince Edward Island, who had responsibility for Cape Breton at this time, met MacDonell on his first pastoral visit there in 1823; he stated that the priest would need assistance in order

confirms the reorientation of regional life in the decades after confederation. About 1880 his family left Prince Edward Island and settled in Moncton, N.B., one of the urban centres which benefited from the

MacDonald* of Glenaladale to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island in 1772, 13-year-old Angus stayed behind to study for the priesthood in the secret Highland Catholic college at Buorblach (near Morar

the Reverend Peter Gordon, Presbyterian missionary to Prince Edward Island, and niece of Archibald Bruce, minister of the General Associate Hall at Alloa, Scotland, and they had two daughters and one

the Atlantic. In 1806 the family moved to Covehead on Prince Edward Island and took up 50 acres on Sir James Montgomery’s Lot 34. Apparently well educated, John’s father, in addition to farming

) McRae; d. there unmarried 17 Feb. 1937. Eliza Margaret MacKenzie was born and raised in the Belfast area of Prince Edward Island, a

. Donald A. MacKinnon was of Scots stock: his father had 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

. (Bolger). J. C. Macmillan, The history of the Catholic Church in Prince Edward Island from 1835 till 1891 (Quebec, 1913). A. B. Warburton, A history of Prince Edward Island from its

Fraser*, from a group of Scottish Presbyterians who had established “flourishing settlements” in the southeast corner of Prince Edward Island. These predominantly Gaelic-speaking communities were

. 20 March 1917 in Vancouver. Malcolm MacLennan was brought up on Prince Edward Island in a Presbyterian farm family of nine children. Like many

last minute the Oughton, the Dykes, and the Polly, with some 800 emigrants, were re-routed to Prince Edward Island. There the emigrants took up lands in the Belfast area and

for John Young*’s brewery and distillery near Quebec. In February 1798 McCallum and John McCallum of St John’s (Prince Edward) Island

record 1,210 miles between 4 April and 18 July, discovering parts of Prince Patrick, Emerald, Eglinton, and Melville islands. The expedition spent a second winter in the Arctic and then, in

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

and was appointed to Prince Edward Island. McCulloch’s education and early years instilled a committed Calvinism, a philosophical liberalism, and an

obvious that this province was outdistancing New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, to say nothing of Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland; although the Morning Chronicle would not say flatly that it