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
*, who in 1774 had emigrated from England to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, where he worked as a wheelwright, postmaster, and lay preacher; he is acknowledged to have been the father of Methodism
order to incite the Acadian population to emigrate in large numbers to the Chignecto isthmus and Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). It is noteworthy that from the parishes of these two priests
diversity of his activities shows. He looked after St Anne, where he had to rebuild the chapel and school, which had been destroyed by fire, he preached here and there, went to Prince Edward Island
furnished lavishly, it became, in one historian’s words, “the social center of the city for a century.” Prince Edward* Augustus stayed with the
John’s (Prince Edward) Island.
Details of Robert Clark’s early life are unknown. He became a Quaker some time before 1753 and was active in
. 1864 in Prince Edward Island, possibly the daughter of David Clark of East River and Maria Gay; d. unmarried 8 Oct. 1905 of “valvular
[Edward* Augustus], Lord Camden (lord lieutenant of Ireland in 1798), and Charles O’Hara (an Irish member of parliament), Colclough was appointed chief justice of Prince Edward Island on 1 Jan
. 20 Sept. 1810 in Prince Edward Island, son of James Coles and Sarah Tally; d. 21 Aug. 1875 in Charlottetown Royalty, P.E.I
Charlottetown.
Frederick John Martin Collard emerged suddenly in Prince Edward Island public life in September 1844 when he advertised as a lawyer
around Point Barrow on 25 July, and, after coasting to Franklin Bay, set his course for Banks Island, hoping to rejoin Investigator. He entered Prince of Wales Strait on 26 August
, P.E.I.
Nicholas Conroy was educated in Ireland before immigrating to northwestern Prince Edward Island with his father in 1835. He took up
Manitoba under his father-in-law, Edward Armstrong. He held the position until July 1880 when he became the province’s chief of police. Later he also served as an inspector of licences and as chairman
*, an established newspaperman. At the age of 26 he began his own newspaper, the Colonial Herald, and Prince Edward Island Advertiser, with the assistance of John S. Bremnar; the first issue
, P.E.I.
Virtually nothing is known about William Cooper’s life before his arrival on Prince Edward Island about 1819. According to an account
.
Cormack left Scotland about 1818 to lead a group of Scottish immigrants to Prince Edward Island where they settled on the Hunter River near Charlottetown and where Cormack was land agent for David Rennie, a
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
at St Catharines, and in 1840 was employed as a clerk on the Welland Canal. In December 1846 Coventry became editor of the Prince Edward Gazette at Picton, which he co-owned with J
wife was also ejected from the congregation because it was supposed “she was the principal author of the letter.” None the less, Cowdell turned up briefly as a lay preacher in Prince Edward Island