, Orkney Islands, Scotland, sixth child and fourth son of John Rae and Margaret Glen; m. 1860, probably on 25 January, in Toronto, Catherine Jane Alicia Thompson, daughter of Major George Ash

Convention of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, in 1875 and again in 1881. Rand chaired a committee, which included James William Manning and James William Johnston Jr, that in 1883

welcome relief for the young couple, and word that Robinson would be lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island was good news indeed. Prince Edward

grandfather came from Leith, Scotland. According to Sangster’s description, “a fiery old Scot . . . brave as a lion,” he fought in the American revolution and later settled in Prince Edward Island

tunnel to Prince Edward Island. Later in the decade he surveyed the St Clair River preparatory to the construction of a tunnel. Commission work also engrossed Shanly’s attention: in May 1886 he

the outside staff. When Prince Edward Island joined confederation in 1873, Smith personally inspected all the navigational aids there and devised an upgrading program. Based on his recommendations

racked New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, and inevitably crossed into Nova Scotia. In part it was owing to him that the working of Catholics and Protestants within one single school system (begun in

Tupper*. Trudeau was entrusted with the deputy ministership. The new department was responsible for the construction, maintenance, and operation of the Intercolonial and Prince Edward Island railways

purchase of Aucpaque (Savage Island), site of the main Maliseet village about seven miles above Fredericton, by judge Isaac Allen in 1794. The family seems to have moved about in the area between Kingsclear

becoming an important mining centre, and from there visited neighbouring mining communities such as Isle Royale (Mich.), Silver Harbour, and Vert Island. He ministered regularly at Prince Arthur’s Landing

NA, MG 26, A: 145221–24. PARO, Ace. 2334/2–3; Ace. 3147/1, 4; Ace. 3156/5; Ace. 3271/1; RG 19, marriage licences; RG 20, 7–8, 224–33; Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island, Estates Div. records, liber

Bridge*, curate to the rector of St John’s, and Mark Willoughby*, superintendent of the Newfoundland School Society for the island. In

. Frederick Brecken belonged to a Prince Edward Island family with a tradition of political activity. His father was a member of the House of Assembly and of the Executive and Legislative councils; a

. Gilbert Buote’s father was the first Acadian schoolteacher in Prince Edward Island. He taught initially in Rustico, his native parish, and then in Miscouche after his marriage in 1819. In 1835 he settled at

steamers for the ferry service which connected New Glasgow and Pictou with Prince Edward Island. Carmichael stopped building wooden vessels in 1883 and, like many other Nova Scotian shipowners, began placing

CLARKE, LAVINIA, missionary; b. c. 1864 in Prince Edward Island, possibly the daughter of David Clark of East River

mother and family to Prince Edward Island in 1843. As a young man, Dawson began work as a clerk in the Charlottetown dry-goods firm of John Thomas Thomas

a bargain for the man’s daughter, all because he had allowed a blacksmith to act as his go-between. “Prince Edward Isle, adieu” portrays the evils generally supposed to have been brought to the Island

Edward Island. Whatever the relative merits of the rival plans it is not surprising that the Baptist institution favoured Dumaresq’s work over that of the high Anglican Harris. The Acadia building was the

shareholder of the Merchants Bank of Prince Edward Island. He also ran a starch factory at Long Creek and a lobster-canning factory at Canoe Cove. In addition, he owned, by deed or mortgage, numerous residences