his go-between. “Prince Edward Isle, adieu” portrays the evils generally supposed to have been brought to the Island by confederation and Sir John A

. John Stewart arrived on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island in November 1775 with his father, recently appointed chief justice of the colony, his brother

-old Robert Poore Haythorne arrived in Prince Edward Island in October 1841 aboard the Glenburnie, his prospects were bright. He came to join his elder brother Edward Curtis, who had emigrated

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

, the Haviland name in Prince Edward Island was associated with wealth, political influence, and the tory cause. The elder Thomas Heath Haviland had, after his emigration to the Island in 1816

Aubin-Edmond*, followed their father into politics. Aubin-Edmond was premier of Prince Edward Island from 1917 to 1919, the first Acadian to hold that office in any Canadian province

. The eldest child of a Scottish schoolmaster who emigrated to eastern Nova Scotia in 1833 and moved to southeastern Prince Edward Island in 1844, William McPhail was a licensed teacher at Newtown

children; d. 5 Feb. 1864 in Charlottetown, P.E.I. After immigrating to Prince Edward Island from Devizes, Wiltshire, in the early 1820s

WRIGHT, CHARLES, surveyor and office holder; b. 21 July 1782 on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, third son of Surveyor

, and waited for his connections to find him employment. They succeeded on 19 March 1837 when he was appointed lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island. Prior to his departure he was given the

 John’s (Prince Edward) Island, initially in partnership with Edward Lewis, mp

came to Prince Edward Island, where there was a large Scottish population and few competing clergymen of any denomination. He was probably encouraged to migrate to the Island by John Scott, another

Pope’s father, a native of Plymouth, England, immigrated in 1819 to Prince Edward Island. In the company of his older brothers Joseph became involved in the timber business at Bedeque, Prince County. By

Haszard*’s Prince Edward Island Register. Whatever motivated his move, it was Palmer who provided White with one of his first known

. In the early 1800s Plaw apparently became “discouraged and disappointed in his art” and began to seek other opportunities. Possibly drawn by the fact that Prince Edward Island urgently needed public

minor position in the Naval Victualling Office in Chatham, England, Thomas Heath Haviland immigrated in 1816 to Prince Edward Island. There he became provost marshal, a post he later described as “a

–38 was later the subject of much recrimination in Prince Edward Island, and it appears, from his own account and the testimony of prominent Montrealers several years afterwards, that he was on the

to Prince Edward Island which was in a period of rapid growth and change owing to a heavy influx of immigrants, mostly from Scotland. On the Island, in 1827, he underwent a deep spiritual awakening

London aboard the scow Elizabeth, bound for the north shore of St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. Chappell has left no record of his reasons for emigrating, but unemployment was heavy in 1774

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