*, who had been speaker of the Prince Edward Island Assembly in 1873–74. When a general election was called in New Brunswick in 1917, Melanson bowed out of political life, citing medical reasons

1872, however, he opted for a business career, joining a firm of commission merchants as an accountant. A year later he entered the service of the small Merchants’ Bank of Prince Edward Island in

successor, Edward Gawler Prior, in June 1903. Richard McBride*, who formed the next government, immediately

’ Bank of Halifax. Since obtaining a federal charter in 1869, it had cautiously built up a network of 25 branches throughout Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. Bad loans to Nova Scotian

PECK, EDMUND JAMES, Church of England missionary, founder of the first permanent mission on Baffin Island (Nunavut), translator, and

. A slight, delicate youth not much given to sports, Joseph had been put to work in 1870 as a clerk for Prince Edward Island’s treasurer, his grandfather Joseph

 years earlier, and by all of his five children. He will be remembered as a pioneer in the field of Celtic studies in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. His publications brought to the world nearly all

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

Townshend*, an early collector of customs in Prince Edward Island. His father served as rector of Christ Church, Amherst, for over 60 years, and through his mother, a daughter 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

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

, 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

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

Borden appointed Barnard lieutenant governor of British Columbia. He would serve a full five-year term until he was replaced by Edward

Angele Egwuna on Bear Island in Lake Temagami, Ont., and they had at least two children; m. secondly 10

members of Prince Edward Island’s House of Assembly (Henry and George Beer). Some personal details can be gleaned from Bremner’s histories. His

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

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

*, 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

ordered two probing strikes into the city on the 21st and 23rd, which were beaten back with heavy losses. A more experienced commander might have waited longer to see if his artillery under Edward Whipple