it obtained licences to sell products such as roofing and glass. Rhodes, Curry came to erect a vast number of buildings in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. Among its projects were

1861 and again in 1867–68 he served as president; during the years 1864–67 he was chairman of the Prince Edward Island District. His last official position before his retirement in 1870 was as chairman

bolster the defences of Louisbourg, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island), and Canada against anticipated British attacks, the French government in 1755 detached six of its 395 infantry battalions from the

. 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

Fanning, lieutenant governor of St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, he moved his press to Charlottetown. There, on 15 September, he published the initial issue of the Royal American

improvements, and encouraged higher learning among generations of bright young Islanders. Although Prince of Wales College ceased to exist in 1969 and was replaced by the University of Prince Edward Island

Kent* and surgeon Edward Kielley* outside the house. Brought before the assembly on a speaker’s warrant for having allegedly committed a

settled on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island at the invitation of Lieutenant Governor Edmund Fanning, who

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

commissioning three lighthouses from Rogers: False Ducks (1828) and Point Petre (1832, destroyed 1969), both in the Prince Edward District, and Nine Mile Point (1833) on Simcoe Island near Kingston. It also

., lumber from Halifax and Prince Edward Island, and flour from New York, and carried Methodist missionaries to Newfoundland free of charge [see James

(Cape Breton Island), and during the siege he led one of the brigades ordered to the Lorembec (Lorraine) area. Following the capture of Louisbourg, Rollo was sent to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island

(Prince Edward Island); little is known of his life elsewhere. He wrote in 1741 to the minister of Marine that in 1715 his fortune had been ruined by one M. Desmarets, that the Duc d’Orléans had then

miles from Pictou, and ministered at various communities in Prince Edward Island. In Pictou County Ross was an active and leading figure. Because of the

being Lieutenant William Edward Parry*, captain of the latter vessel. The well-equipped expedition was to enter Davis Strait, make

that “in reality, the whole history of navigation abounds with similar errors of false conclusions.” Heading south in Prince Regent Inlet, the vessel stopped at Fury Beach, Somerset Island, and took on

Capital,” he answered an advertisement from John Hill*, a proprietor of land on Prince Edward Island, for an attorney to supervise his properties

appointed to succeed Claude-Élisabeth Denys* de Bonnaventure as major and commandant of Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island

Legislatures, and of the parties to which they gave rise.” He was able to show how little had been accomplished by the legislature in Prince Edward Island, despite that colony’s manifest advantages. And he

Edward) Island in 1768, Salter’s circumstances at the end of the decade reflected the collapse of Nova Scotia’s boom. His financial affairs had always been precarious and in 1768 shipping and other losses