Baptist Convention of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, and later he was president of that organization. In 1852 he became editor of the Christian Visitor, a Baptist newspaper in

opening service of St Peter’s Cathedral, founded by him as a cathedral church for Prince Edward Island outside the normal jurisdiction of the parish church of Charlottetown, St Paul’s. Here, as in

remittances to Halifax. In 1768 Binney added the short-lived posts of collector of customs and excise and judge on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island to his collection of offices, in January 1772 he became a

August 1808, with the assistance of James Bardin Palmer* of Charlottetown, Binns sailed for Prince Edward Island to set up an agency to

missionary trips to the Saint John valley, Newfoundland, and St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. However, he had little opportunity or incentive to exercise leadership until May

music and grammar lessons. He then went to Prince Edward Island where he became friendly with a number of English-speaking families and quickly mastered the mysteries of their language

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

Willoughby*, superintendent of the Newfoundland School Society for the island. In theory an Anglican organization, this society, founded in 1823, provided education with a religious orientation. It was

BOSCAWEN, EDWARD, naval officer; sometimes called “Wry-necked Dick” from a habit of cocking his head to one side; more commonly

Telephone Company. The most important project in which Botsford became involved was the New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island railway. Prince Edward Island had been promised some means of “continuous

. When Île Royale and its dependencies were reoccupied by France in 1749 following the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, Bourdon was immediately seconded to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) as an interpreter

Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). In any event we meet him again in 1752 at Port-Toulouse (St Peters, N.S.), at the home of Joseph Le Blanc, who had been living there for three years

. He suggested the construction of lighthouses at several dangerous points, including places on the coasts of Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Anticosti Island, St Paul Island, N.S., and on the

agents who toured the island selling books, pills, and the Casket. By 1858 the paper was sold by four agents in the peninsula, 13 on Cape Breton, and three in Prince Edward Island. No figures on

island in Pigeon Lake near Bobcaygeon, where he started the Big Island Stock Farm; he later added the Red Deer Hill Stock Farm near Prince Albert (Sask.). Boyd bred horses, cattle, and sheep for show and

McClintock*’s sledge expedition to Prince Patrick Island. On 8 May 1854 he left Resolute, which was shortly to be abandoned, and led a party of invalids to North Star anchored at

Charlottetown. Frederick Brecken belonged to a Prince Edward Island family with a tradition of political activity. His father was a member of the

(Prince Edward) Island from Shelburne, N.S. in 1784. He soon prospered as a merchant, and took John’s father into the firm. Ralph died when John was only 13, leaving an estate of almost £25,000, most

members of Prince Edward Island’s House of Assembly (Henry and George Beer). Some personal details can be gleaned from Bremner’s histories. His

to Prince Edward Island. He immediately began work as a land surveyor, and a few years later became a merchant in Charlottetown. By the end of the 1820s he was one of the leading importers on the