. 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

the country, its evangelizer and moral exemplar. In 1881, after an early childhood spent in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, Mackinnon

. Eliza Margaret MacKenzie was born and raised in the Belfast area of Prince Edward Island, a region that produced several women physicians during an era when such individuals were rare. She was first

inquire into the state of higher education in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. The report, fair-minded and cool, was produced quickly. It gave high marks to Mackenzie’s Dalhousie

Prince Albert; m. 21 March 1871 John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell*, Marquess

 Charlottetown. Originally from Lincolnshire, England, the Lea family settled in the Tryon area of Prince Edward Island in about 1818, and several of

*, a Prince Edward Island judge, went so far as to chide Hébert when he failed to attend a meeting of the Société Nationale l’Assomption; a national assembly planned for that summer had been on the

those of chief superintendent of schools for Prince Edward Island and associate editor of the Philadelphia Sunday School Times

an increased salary. From 1891 to 1894 he was professor of agriculture at Prince of Wales College, headed by Alexander Anderson*, in

Edward Island permitted their unlimited use, having first banned them and then allowing them to be driven only on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.) Doolittle’s persistent lobbying nevertheless helped

DALTON, CHARLES, farmer, druggist, co-founder of the silver-fox industry in Prince Edward Island, politician, philanthropist, and

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

*, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

, 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