Presbyterian Church (1870), the best known of his several local churches, and in Charlottetown the Bank of Prince Edward Island (1867) and the Post Office (1871

, and militia officer; b. probably during the winter of 1764–65 at Observation (Holland) Cove, St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, natural first child of Samuel Johannes

owned nearly 100,000 acres on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. Beginning in 1769, James Montgomery had set under way two major entrepreneurial

Cowperthwaite served churches in Nova Scotia (Horton, 1867–70), New Brunswick (Fairville, 1870–73; Saint John, 1885–87), and Prince Edward Island (Tryon, 1873–76, 1888–89; Cornwall, 1876–79, 1882–84

55 years, during which time he held pastorates in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. He remained only a short time at most of these places and frequently returned to the Amherst

Wallet DesBarres* as lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island. By associating himself with James Bardin

drawing. Prince Edward Island was fortunate in attracting artists. The main contribution of William

Fanning, lieutenant governor of St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, he moved his press to Charlottetown. There, on 15 September, he published the initial issue of the Royal American

Prince Edward Island as a representative of the New Brunswick Home Mission Board, and was invited to become pastor of the First Baptist Church in Charlottetown. At first he declined, but in 1858 he was

Prince Edward Island from County Kerry (Republic of Ireland). In April 1835 the family leased land in Lot 32 but they later settled on a leasehold at Hope River in Lot 22. Sullivan, a Roman Catholic

New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island railway. Prince Edward Island had been promised some means of “continuous communication” with the mainland on entering confederation in 1873, and the following

organized the Alberton agricultural exhibition in 1892, was a charter member (1898) and president (1903-7) of the Fruit Growers’ Association of Prince Edward Island, was a member of dairy and stockbreeders

Edward Island), and Descouts was enlisted as a surgeon for the troops. According to the census of Port-La-Joie (Fort Amherst) in 1734 he was a bachelor and was still practising his profession as a surgeon

estate of Samuel Cunard* in Prince Edward Island. In 1850, after years of battle against Cunard’s “unrighteous” high rents, his father was forced

 John’s (Prince Edward) Island in 1784, John Cambridge remains a shadowy figure in historical records. A Privy Council report of 1791 identifies him as being “formerly an obscure chairmaker in St

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

. 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

CLARKE, LAVINIA, missionary; b. c. 1864 in Prince Edward Island, possibly the daughter of David Clark of East River

Brunswick District, Minutes, 1836, 2 Nov. 1842 (mfm. at UCA). Methodist Church (Canada, Newfoundland, Bermuda), New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island Conference, Minutes (Saint John), 1890

l’Île Saint-Jean. Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), Miscou, and adjacent isles had been granted to the Comte de Saint-Pierre in August 1719, on condition that he colonize them. Gotteville