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

Edward) Island, and Cape Breton Island; his report unfortunately has not survived. Nevertheless, it is known that different commercial interests and tariff policies had dictated, instead of an integrated

society for the promotion of agriculture, and he also belonged to an exclusive literary, scientific, and social group often patronized by Prince

Scotia, managed to secure his position as lieutenant governor of St John’s (Prince Edward) Island in 1787, he invited Aplin there to be solicitor general. Aplin’s immediate reaction to his new

had sought refuge on Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). Despite the risks of the trip, he went to the island, found his wife, and returned with her to go into hiding at Miramichi (N.B. ), where

remittances to Halifax. In 1768 Binney added the short-lived posts of collector of customs and excise and judge on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island to his collection of offices, in January 1772 he became a

, N.S. Little is known of John Burbidge prior to his arrival in North America. He was at Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island, in 1747, where he was

needed to carry out his work in Nova Scotia. In 1819 he and the Reverend Angus Bernard MacEachern* of Prince Edward Island held

Canada to Prince Edward Island, and Burn was instructed to keep the flock in New York for the summer. Not until June was Selkirk able to send an impatient and increasingly uncomfortable Burn further

after 1796 on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island; d. March 1815 in Charlottetown, P.E.I

Edward Augustus was welcomed to the colony in 1794. The prince assumed command of all troops in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, eclipsing Carleton and, with his base in Nova Scotia, guaranteeing

* on Île Royale (Cape Breton Island). But once again plans were changed. A priest intended for Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) having been unable through ill health to make the trip, Cassiet was

attitude had changed. During the winter of 1800–1 Champion served the Acadians at Bay Fortune on Prince Edward Island. The following summer he was

, Poplar Grove, Covehead, P.E.I. Little is known of James Curtis’s background before his arrival on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island around 1770 as

.” Delesdernier nevertheless continued to live in Cumberland County. In July 1779 he was elected to the House of Assembly of St John’s (Prince Edward) Island in unknown circumstances, but he did not

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

(Prince Edward) Island. He took his duties on the Island seriously and apparently carried them out well, but he was required to return to Nova Scotia in 1769 when the Island became a separate colony

writer there, and younger brother of John Jr, who became a well-known Edinburgh advocate; d. 26 Sept. 1803 on Prince Edward Island. After

,” he offered to combine his efforts in Upper Canada with colonization on Prince Edward Island as well. As his plans for the Upper Canadian venture went forward it became clear that costs would be higher

landed family, John Thomas Duckworth went to Eton College as a young boy but at the age of 11, on the invitation of Edward Boscawen*, decided to