contentious issues of the 1870s between Catholics and Protestants that racked New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, and inevitably crossed into Nova Scotia. In part it was owing to him that the working of

*]. In late July Thomson visited Prince Edward Island and met with Lieutenant Governor Sir

superintendent of its busiest commuter line, the Long Island Rail Road. Thornton’s skilful direction of the LIRR drew the attention of the wider railway world

awarded an lld. Admitted to the Irish bar in 1790, he entered the colonial service in 1801 when he was nominated chief justice of Prince Edward Island

’ Institute and lectured several times on such subjects as aerial perspective and the first principles of drawing. Prince Edward Island was fortunate in

apprentices from Stornoway to York Factory (Man.) in the chartered ship Edward and Ann. From 1811 to 1817 Tod was stationed in the Severn District in the vicinity of Hudson Bay. He was at Trout Lake

. Rous) was sent to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) to deliver the terms for its evacuation, and the sloop Hinchingbroke was sent to cruise eastward along the coast of Cape Breton

Townshend*, an early collector of customs in Prince Edward Island. His father served as rector of Christ Church, Amherst, for over 60 years, and through his mother, a daughter of

favoured people who in July 1767 received 20,000-acre grants in St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, being awarded Lot 56 in the east end of the Island. In 1770, embarrassed by his Irish expenses, he

Townshend’s life before he became collector of customs and naval officer for St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. He may have obtained the appointments because of a family connection with George, Viscount

unpopularity in St John’s and his evident want of judgement, something had to be done. In 1813 the British government thought that a solution had been found. On Prince Edward Island, Chief Justice Cæsar

operation of the Intercolonial and Prince Edward Island railways, a portion of the planned transcontinental railway, and the administration of federal assistance to railways. It also had charge of Canada’s

 years, during which time he held pastorates in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. He remained only a short time at most of these places and frequently returned to the Amherst, N.S

view of the anticipated hostility of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown was selected as the site. Tupper and Premier Samuel Leonard Tilley

before moving to Charlottetown, where he became a merchant. Moderately successful, he returned to England in 1860 to marry Elizabeth Eilbeck and then brought his wife to Prince Edward Island. News of the

visited the Canadas. The task of selecting or inspecting property in the Huron Tract fell to Carel Lodewijk’s agent, Edward C. Taylor of

TYNG (Ting), EDWARD, merchant and naval officer; b. 1683 in Falmouth (now Portland, Maine), eldest son of Colonel Edward

(Williams). Hearne, Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort (Tyrrell). Nipigon to Winnipeg: a canoe voyage through western Ontario by Edward Umfreville in 1784, with

four colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton. Upham’s petitions containing these requests graphically describe the rigours endured by public servants in backwoods

or Nellie, Copper Inuit (Inuinnait) seamstress and artist; b. about 1890, probably in the Baillie Islands area off the north coast of Cape Bathurst, N.W.T., daughter of Gunnana