a new career, as colonial administrator. When Dundas arrived in Prince Edward Island on 7 June 1859 to take up his duties as lieutenant

. 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

PRINCE, JOHN, lawyer, farmer, soldier, politician, and judge; b

Jones, superior of the eastern missions, Pichard and Calonne proceeded to Prince Edward Island, where Pichard was to divide his time among the Acadian missions of Malpeque, Rustico, and Bay

first president of the Ladies’ Hospital Aid Society, established shortly after the incorporation of the Prince Edward Island Hospital in 1884. The society collected voluntary subscriptions, the sole

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

in 1969 and was replaced by the University of Prince Edward Island, Robertson’s contribution to the cause of lifelong learning was recognized when the new institution named its library after him

elder Laird had been a liberal in politics, a sometime radical on the Prince Edward Island land question, and a staunch Presbyterian. Having broken ranks with the liberals on the Bible question, he had

Polly, with some 800 emigrants, were re-routed to Prince Edward Island. There the emigrants took up lands in the Belfast area and there they perpetuated their traditions and their rich heritage of

Perry died in the nation’s capital in 1898 after a brief illness. The first Acadian from Prince Edward Island to play a role in politics both provincially and federally, he none the less earned but scant

. 1819, aged 86, on Prince Edward Island. Of Huguenot ancestry, Thomas

parents in the late 1830s. They landed in Pugwash, N.S., but in 1839 moved to Prince Edward Island. Educated at Central Academy in Charlottetown, George began his business career there as a clerk in Henry

York, went from Shelburne, where James was born, to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island probably in 1787. Unable to get an expected land grant, Samuel, a carpenter and cabinet-maker, settled his family

a family group of six emigrated to Prince Edward Island, where Mrs Sinclair purchased a 100-acre farm in a newly settled and inland section of Lot

1862 Anderson and his bride sailed for Prince Edward Island, where he began teaching mathematics and science in Charlottetown at Prince of Wales College. A secular institution established by the

 years old. Mackieson was also active in other areas of medicine. In 1856, for example, as chairman of the Prince Edward Island Medical

England in Prince Edward Island was part of the diocese of Nova Scotia were mistaken. In a series of letters Simpson demonstrated, from the letters patent and the actions of the colonial bishops of Nova

Stewart*, a landowner on Prince Edward Island, who hired Goff to be his agent there. The following spring the Goff family moved to

educational system was a central issue in the political life of Prince Edward Island during these years, and in April 1876 he testified before a parliamentary committee investigating education that his

, the regiment was placed on the army establishment. The Fencibles continued to recruit aggressively and Rankin, after arriving on 14 July 1806 in Prince Edward Island, there enlisted an additional