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Cornelius Howatt, a tenant farmer from Tryon, was first elected to the Prince Edward Island House of Assembly in 1859, and he served continuously until his defeat at the polls in 1876. During three of these
to Prince Edward Island, where they intended to make their home. He travelled to the eastern United States in 1858, perhaps as a result of enquiries he had made about vacancies at the New York
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
elder Laird had been a liberal in politics, a sometime radical on the Prince Edward Island land question, and a staunch Presbyterian. Having broken ranks with the liberals on the Bible question, he had
Maritime Catholic institutions for a generation. The establishment of Catholic bishoprics in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island had begun in the 1820s, at a time when it was assumed that
Monkstown (Republic of Ireland).
Both natives of Ireland, Philip Francis Little’s parents arrived in Prince Edward Island by way of the United States
discuss the possibility of a legislative union of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island [see Arthur Hamilton Gordon
minister of the interior, David Laird* from Prince Edward Island, was appointed by Mackenzie in 1876 to the lieutenant governorship of the North-West
held at Quebec from 20 to 28 Oct. 1887 shed lustre on the Mercier régime. All the provinces were represented at the meeting except British Columbia and Prince Edward Island, which had not dared
of the new government, including his own minister, David Laird* of Prince Edward Island, describing him as “a long, lanky conjointed creature
; with a brief outline of Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, was printed in 1855 by Richard Nugent* in Halifax. In many ways the
Penobsquis, N.B., daughter of George Augustus Morton and Mary Sipperal; m. Alexander James McLellan of Prince Edward Island; they had no children; d. 18 Aug. 1892 in Victoria, B.C
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
raised to the priesthood. After his ordination he worked for three months in the parish of Saint-Roch before going back to Prince Edward Island.
On his
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The youngest of eight children, Peter McIntyre was early marked for the church. His parents had come to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island in 1790 as part of a large emigration from Highland Scotland
1862 Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia followed suit. The Nova Scotia cup was the grand prize at a match held at Truro on 10–12 Sept. 1862. Newman’s creation of this cup, which he
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
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Stanislaus Francis Perry died in the nation’s capital in 1898 after a brief illness. The first Acadian from Prince Edward Island to play a role in politics both provincially and federally, he none the less
May) and Prince Edward Island (30 June); in the same year his father-in-law and some business associates purchased a large amount of land on Prince Edward Island and made him their solicitor. On 8
he joined his brother William and his half-brother John Pope on Prince Edward Island, where the two had established a business as early as 1817. The Popes were among the West Countrymen who had entered