support at a meeting of Queens County residents in Charlottetown in 1871. When Prince Edward Island became a province two years later [see James Colledge
. c. 1840 in Prince Edward Island, daughter of John Geddie* and Charlotte Lenora Harrington MacDonald; m. 21 Sept
. 1895, but continued giving boxing exhibitions, returning to Prince Edward Island for this purpose a few years later. He also operated a gymnasium and boxing school in Boston and invested carefully in
* and Albert Edward*, were appointed directors.
George Gooderham spent much of the
of the last to launch a ship in Prince Edward Island when he built the Lady Napier in 1902.
Gordon held many positions of public trust
John in Nova Scotia, and then at Georgetown, St Peters Road, and Brackley Point on Prince Edward Island. He was so successful that in 1863 he was called to St Matthew’s Church in Halifax, the
and translator of German and French in the Vice-Admiralty Court. He was leading counsel for the proprietors before the Prince Edward Island land commission in 1860 [see Edward
Toronto Island (Toronto, 1984). W. E. Harding, Edward Hanlan, America’s champion oarsman . . . (New York, 1881). R. S. Hunter, Rowing in Canada since 1848
. Museum. The reports Hannay submitted to the federal archives branch are preserved in NA, MG 9, A10 (records of New Brunswick), B7 (Nova Scotia), and C5 (Prince Edward Island). He followed these around
, shortly after returning to Canada, Harrington assisted John William Dawson, the principal of McGill College and later his father-in-law, in his research on Prince Edward Island. Together they studied the
the Bank of Prince Edward Island, founded in 1856, and he sat on its board until its cessation of business in 1881. He retired from banking in 1900. Even though he did not reach the first rank of the
.
The eldest of James Holman’s sons, Samuel Chadbourne, who also worked in Boston, came to Prince Edward Island in 1851 and set up a store in Charlottetown. Robert joined him, but Samuel’s accidental
more than political points on a tunnel: in 1886 he formed a company to build the project in return for complete ownership of the Prince Edward Island Railway and an annual operating subsidy. His
minister Huestis had charge of 18 circuits, most in Nova Scotia, although he also spent six years in Prince Edward Island and four in New Brunswick. He claimed that he had travelled through and preached in
later became a member of Prince Edward Island’s Legislative Council. During the early 1850s Richard studied at Harvard Medical School. He was returning home across the Northumberland Strait in March
for the Dominion Life Assurance Company helped A. G. Jones and Company expand rapidly, but the biggest boost to the firm occurred in 1899 when it became agent in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island
referred to as “Mr. Landry from Montreal” when he went to Prince Edward Island in the early 1860s to work with Father George-Antoine
Brigid Costin; d. unmarried 14 July 1902 in St John’s.
When Joseph Little emigrated from Prince Edward Island to St John’s in 1851
1873 began an 11-year hiatus in her professional career. Following an extended stay in Boston, she went back to Prince Edward Island in 1874 and there married Abram Newcomb Archibald. The nine years of
. That he is remembered today as a photographer is the result of a gift of some 225 negatives made to Prince Edward Island by Mitchell’s grandson, a resident of Ottawa, in 1972. A number of the negatives