. in February 1797 on the island of Elba, son of Lawrence Edward Ermatinger, assistant commissary general in the British army, and grandson of Lawrence

. Family interest in St John’s (Prince Edward) Island began in 1770, when Peter’s brother Robert undertook a settlement of Highlanders on Lot 18. The venture was not very successful, but the attempt

(Prince Edward Island). He escaped to Acadia and was charged with conducting some English prisoners from Miramichi (N.B.) to Quebec. Arriving there in September, he later became aide-de-camp to Lévis. He

. In 1794 Prince Edward Augustus became commander-in-chief of the Nova Scotia military district, and Ogilvie

Monkstown (Republic of Ireland). Both natives of Ireland, Philip Francis Little’s parents arrived in Prince Edward Island by way of the United States

around Point Barrow on 25 July, and, after coasting to Franklin Bay, set his course for Banks Island, hoping to rejoin Investigator. He entered Prince of Wales Strait on 26 August

full officer’s allowance of 3,000 acres, he petitioned the government in August 1789 for 2,100 acres directly across from his trading post, in what is now Prince Edward County. Before the government

in its support at a meeting of Queens County residents in Charlottetown in 1871. When Prince Edward Island became a province two years later [see James Colledge

. 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

,” 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

minister to about 15 Acadian families at Havre-Aubert on the Îles de la Madeleine. His services were divided between this outpost and the Acadian settlements on Cape Breton and St John’s (Prince Edward

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

(Williams). Hearne, Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort (Tyrrell). Nipigon to Winnipeg: a canoe voyage through western Ontario by Edward Umfreville in 1784, with

. 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

minister Huestis had charge of 18 circuits, most in Nova Scotia, although he also spent six years in Prince Edward Island and four in New Brunswick. He claimed that he had travelled through and preached in

partnership with William only. His youngest son, Edward James*, studied law and in 1828 became chief justice of Prince Edward Island

. Malcolm MacLennan was brought up on Prince Edward Island in a Presbyterian farm family of nine children. Like many Islanders, he left home for Boston and then moved to British Columbia, where he was joined

miles from Pictou, and ministered at various communities in Prince Edward Island. In Pictou County Ross was an active and leading figure. Because of the

, and Saskatchewan. In Prince Edward Island his most complete work was the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Palmer Road, for which he drew up the plans and did the interior painting. Meloche in all

. (Bolger). J. C. Macmillan, The history of the Catholic Church in Prince Edward Island from 1835 till 1891