. John H. Bell’s father emigrated from Scotland in 1820 and began farming in the Cape Traverse area of Prince Edward Island. John attended local schools, Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, and

Carvell*. Two years later he bought the paper and in 1877 he turned it into a daily, the first in Prince Edward Island. The move was a bold one, but a

.” Elizabeth’s first article about life in Charlottetown, based on her recollections of the mid 1840s, was published in October 1900 in the Prince Edward Island Magazine. This publication was

family estates in Barbados was to go to the two eldest sons, William Bryant and Jonathan, and, in compensation, began in 1803 to purchase land on Prince Edward Island for Charles and the fifth son, Edward

had been a mayor of Louth and 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

was responsible for building in Prince Edward Island, but it certainly ran into scores. He was a great traditional craftsman who played an important pioneering role in the establishment of an industry

, P.E.I. Nicholas Conroy was educated in Ireland before immigrating to northwestern Prince Edward Island with his father in 1835. He took up

, P.E.I. Born in a rural area at the eastern extremity of Prince Edward Island, it is probable that Angus McDonald passed his first years in

. John Lewellin Lewellin had farmed for 16 years in England before he immigrated to Prince Edward Island in 1824 from Wiltshire. He was a friend of John

. His father-in-law, Joseph-B. Poirier, who can be regarded as the forerunner of Acadian merchants on Prince Edward Island, had opened his first store in 1857, and his four sons would follow him in

archives at Warwick, England, from the Nova Scotia surveyor Charles Morris to one John Butler, agent for John Pownall, at that time proprietor of Lot 13 on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. The previous

, Peter McIntyre papers; James Morrison papers. NA, RG 31, C1, 1881, 1891, Prince Edward Island. PARO

 John’s (Prince Edward) Island, founded one of its many office-holding families, and was most remembered by contemporaries for the number of his offspring. George worked for him for years as deputy surveyor

Prince Edward Island, and they had two sons and two daughters; fl. 1803–15. Although a detailed biographical background for James Williams survives on

. 25 Dec. 1797 at Allisary, St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, one of ten children of Angus MacDonald and Penelope MacDonald; d. 30 Dec. 1859 at St Dunstan’s College, near

illness was responsible for this situation. After the death of this pioneer among Acadian businessmen in Prince Edward Island, his lovely home in Rustico, his farm, and his business were sold. Fortunately

became a teacher in the public schools of rural Prince Edward Island. On 1 Feb

years later Lane was given command of a subaltern’s detachment at Charlottetown. With the army reduction of 1818 he went on half pay and settled in Prince Edward Island where he took up the duties of

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

, it is not surprising that George DeBlois became land agent for the extensive Cunard holdings in Prince Edward Island in 1853, continuing in that capacity until the estate was purchased by the Island