activities and many people encouraged him throughout his run in Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island (24 May to 27 May), and New Brunswick (27 May to 10 June). The successful fund-raising

branches with ample parking were opened in places such as Don Mills in Toronto and Pointe-Claire on the island of Montreal. Others were established in Refugee Cove (Happy Valley-Goose Bay), Labrador, as well

‘Maud’ and nothing else”), was raised in Cavendish near the north shore of Prince Edward Island; under the fictional name of Avonlea, this beautiful rural community provides the setting for her most

a choice of ridings but in most cases he would have had to run against a farmers’ party candidate. To avoid any confrontation he picked Prince, in Prince Edward Island, where he was acclaimed in

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

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

superintendent of its busiest commuter line, the Long Island Rail Road. Thornton’s skilful direction of the LIRR drew the attention of the wider railway world

Edward Island in 1855. William’s father owned a middle-sized holding of 149 acres in Lot 34 when he died intestate in 1873. Three daughters never married, and most of the sons became farmers or

, later King Edward VIII, and his brother Prince George, when they visited Canada in 1927. As the ranking military officer in Vancouver in the 1920s and 1930s, Stewart participated in military

the road to becoming a national leader in the industry. Stanfield was born two years after his father, a textile manufacturer from Bradford, Yorkshire, England, left Prince Edward Island and relocated

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

his institutional and commercial practice, typified by the Pacific Cable Board Cable Station (1902–3) in Bamfield on Vancouver Island. A succession of major structures for the bank and the railways

. As is common with women born in rural Prince Edward Island in the 19th

McArthur*]. In the bond and underwriting business, he invested heavily in Cox’s Dominion Securities Corporation, formed in 1901 on the initiative of Edward Rogers

Whiteway* won the support of most Liberals and Conservatives for construction of a railway across the island. The

. After his arrival in the Prince Edward Island capital five days later, O’Leary was installed in the pro-cathedral; his cathedral, St Dunstan’s, had been destroyed by fire in March. He set himself to

1899 to become a commercial traveller. But two years later he moved to Prince Edward Island to run the Halifax Breweries plant there, and by 1904 he was back in Halifax as general manager for the firm

White, in Springfield, Kings County, N.B.; they had no children; d. 19 June 1937 in Halifax. Prince Edward Island farmers James

general contract with the Qu’Appelle, Long Lake and Saskatchewan Railroad (QLLSR) to build a line through the North-West Territories from Regina to Saskatoon and Prince Albert (Sask.) and invited Mann

. Andrew Macphail was the son of a well-respected Scottish-born teacher who became one of the most effective school visitors in 19th-century Prince Edward Island. Shortly before Andrew’s birth, his parents