the whole island, against Richard Smith*, manager of the General Mining Association at Sydneoung had already won the gratitude of newly

Edward Island on 29 Dec. 1868 and assumed office on 2 Feb. 1869. Shortly after arriving in Canada, he commented publicly on Canada’s independence within the empire and her freedom “to continue

proprietors in Prince Edward Island, David and Robert Bruce Stewart, who faced threats of non-payment of rents by their tenants and of hostile legislative action by the provincial legislature. He received

lack of education in the law rather than from wilful disobedience. He was compensated with the post of lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island, which fell vacant while he was in London

County, Prince Edward Island. There Yeo worked as superintendent of the lumbering gangs and helped with the management of the stores in the lumbering, shipbuilding, and mercantile business established by

American shipbuilding in the early nineteenth century with special reference to Prince Edward Island,” in The south-west and the sea, ed. H. E. S. Fisher (Exeter Papers in Economic

Cumberland, N.S., and they had ten children; d. 7 Dec. 1812 on Prince Edward Island. Little is known of the early life of Thomas

Charles*, and his father all held the office of surveyor general of Prince Edward Island. Wright evidently studied under the direction of his father and by 1829 was working in the office of the surveyor

 John’s (Prince Edward) Island, founded one of its many office-holding families, and was most remembered by contemporaries for the number of his offspring. George worked for him for years as deputy surveyor

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

family estates in Barbados was to go to the two eldest sons, William Bryant and Jonathan, and, in compensation, began in 1803 to purchase land on Prince Edward Island for Charles and the fifth son, Edward

 government. Linked by a ferry, the railway not only functioned as the major connection to Prince Edward Island but also brought considerable

Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island); and Wolfe, with three battalions convoyed by a naval squadron of nine sail under Sir Charles Hardy, to lay waste the settlements and fishery in the Gulf of St

 John (Prince Edward Island) – and forbade settlement west of the Appalachians. Wilmot protested that these new instructions, which offered unlimited grants and imposed few responsibilities on the

Campbell, whose resignation they sought, had been replaced by Sir John Harvey*, the governor of Prince Edward Island

the goodwill of his congregation. He was appointed archdeacon of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island in 1825, and in April of the same year, chaplain to the Nova Scotia Legislative Council, a post he

equal number … in various branch offices in Eastern Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.” The expansion came through innovative promotions, including giveaways and purchase incentives

Prince Edward Island, and they had two sons and two daughters; fl. 1803–15. Although a detailed biographical background for James Williams survives on

parents and sister to Prince Edward Island where they settled at St Andrew Point (Wightmans Point) in Lot 59, Kings County. They leased 179 acres of land from Sir James Montgomery, a major land

 John (Prince Edward Island); b. c. 1694, apparently the son of Captain Arthur Whitmore of York, whose will refers to a son Edward; d. 1761