. That year the Comte de Saint-Pierre, proprietor of Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), asked for Catalogne, “an excellent person, who understands the work that has to be done and is more suitable than

. C. MacMillan, The early history of the Catholic Church in Prince Edward Island (Quebec, 1905). Édouard Richard, Acadie, reconstitution d’un chapitre perdu de l

. In 1722 he was director general of the Compagnie de l’Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), formed by the Comte de Saint-Pierre to develop the island. The aim of this undertaking was not purely

when he married Anne, daughter of Edward Greene of London, although there is a possibility that he may have been the John Mason of Hampshire who matriculated from Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1602 (Dean

from what is now Prince Edward Island and the mainland) were trading with the French as well as fishing. Leigh was the intruder in the harbour, but he

to the making of extreme anti-Spanish plans – to seize a major island in the West Indies, to capture the foreign fishing vessels at Newfoundland (his first known association with the island), and to

Canada. The Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France granted him, 19 Jan. 1663, the Îles de la Madeleine, de Saint-Jean (today Prince Edward Island), des Oiseaux, and de Brion, so that he could develop

Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), and all other islands in the gulf. Shortly afterwards he was appointed governor and lieutenant-general of this

region one can possibly see, and the heat is considerable”; he had discovered Prince Edward Island, without however being able to determine that it was an island

drawn up by Edward Wright, mathematician and tutor to Prince Henry, eldest son of James I, and indicate

fishing rights at Cape Breton, Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), and the Îles de