. Joseph Fletcher Brennan, a writer and publisher who may have been a native of Prince Edward Island, sent both William Arthur and his brother, Alfred Laurens, to school at St Dunstan’s College in

. C. MacMillan, The early history of the Catholic Church in Prince Edward Island (Quebec, 1905). Édouard Richard, Acadie, reconstitution d’un chapitre perdu de l

John, Great-West had agencies in every province from British Columbia to Prince Edward Island. The formula for such success was straightforward

 years more. However, his interests in England seem to have turned from social or political questions towards a concentration upon his business, as typified by the joint speculation in Prince Edward Island

provinces of New Brunswick, St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, and Cape Breton, and the question of American vessels fishing in Nova Scotian waters

,” characteristics that made him difficult to work with and an implacable enemy. Nevertheless, he contributed much to Acadian life on Prince Edward Island and is one of the most important figures of its “renaissance

. Gilbert Buote’s father was the first Acadian schoolteacher in Prince Edward Island. He taught initially in Rustico, his native parish, and then in Miscouche after his marriage in 1819. In 1835 he settled at

, N.S. Little is known of John Burbidge prior to his arrival in North America. He was at Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island, in 1747, where he was

needed to carry out his work in Nova Scotia. In 1819 he and the Reverend Angus Bernard MacEachern* of Prince Edward Island held

organized the Alberton agricultural exhibition in 1892, was a charter member (1898) and president (1903-7) of the Fruit Growers’ Association of Prince Edward Island, was a member of dairy and stockbreeders

Canada to Prince Edward Island, and Burn was instructed to keep the flock in New York for the summer. Not until June was Selkirk able to send an impatient and increasingly uncomfortable Burn further

factors bringing about, in 1846, the union of the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Baptist associations to form the Baptist Convention of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island (now the United

. Mark Butcher, a member of a family of cabinetmakers, immigrated with his parents to Prince Edward Island in 1829. In February 1835 he announced the opening of a workshop in Charlottetown to

the NTQR Company, now known as the Bay of Quinte Railway and Navigation Company. He remained with Rathbun until 1900, when a contractor for the Prince Edward Island Railway engaged him to create plans

drawn up by Edward Wright, mathematician and tutor to Prince Henry, eldest son of James I, and indicate

West End. He was a third-generation descendant of John Byers, known as Black Jack, and his wife, Amelia, a slave couple brought to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island by Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph

after 1796 on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island; d. March 1815 in Charlottetown, P.E.I

and deprived even of necessities, the missionary found solace in visits to his confrères on Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, and the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. They wrote to

 13, he joined the crew of a merchant ship for a voyage to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) and then went to work buying cattle for Augustin Cadet, his father’s half-brother, a Quebec butcher

CALLBECK, PHILLIPS, office-holder and administrator of St John’s (Prince Edward) Island; b