that Blackadar, who was well connected with the Baptist Convention of the Maritime Provinces, put White in touch with the superintendent of its Home Mission Board for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island

Haszard*’s Prince Edward Island Register. Whatever motivated his move, it was Palmer who provided White with one of his first known

British infantry; d. 10 Dec. 1867 in Charlottetown, P.E.I. More than that of any other major figure in Prince Edward Island history, the

general of Prince Edward Island in the place of Joseph Aplin. Wentworth’s distant relationship to the lieutenant

, N.S. Reputedly born in Truro, Emma Wells seems to have spent her early years in Maine and then in Prince Edward Island, where in 1864 her

5 Oct. 1864 with a complete retraction by Reilly, but not before this libel case had become probably the most sensational news item in Prince Edward Island in the year of the Charlottetown

. Son of a merchant and shipowner, Robert Weatherbe obtained his early education in Charlottetown. He left Prince Edward Island to attend Acadia College in Wolfville in 1854, at about the same time as his

Nelly, bound for Georgetown, St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. Although the failure to “earn bread sufficient to support . . . his family” was cited as the reason for leaving

French settlers to live side by side at peace with English families. He shipped most of Cape Breton’s population to France in 1745 and planned to repatriate the settlers of Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward

. 1929. Alexander Bannerman Warburton was born while his father James was a member of Prince Edward Island’s first responsible, and reform

Pérez Hernández]. After exploring the coast well to the north, Cook sailed to the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands, where he was killed in a clash with the natives on 14 Feb. 1779. Vancouver

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

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

(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

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

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

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

 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

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