he made on Prince Edward Island about a man rumoured to have cheated him of his proper wages – will set the tone: My oldest brother

Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), where he died in 1752. Joseph-Nicolas had been an adept pilot, and this knowledge, as well as his anti-British

. In the meantime, under Kellett’s direction, M’Clintock and Mecham, on sledge journeys of great length, found no trace of Franklin, but added Eglinton and Prince Patrick islands to the map of the Arctic

(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

America. In 1799 Waldegrave’s refusal to recognize the authority of Prince Edward Augustus, commander-in

Gordon and Mary Ramsey; d. 20 May 1861, at Eromanga, New Hebrides. In 1786 George Nicol Gordon’s father had come to Prince Edward Island with

. In 1799 Calonne decided to leave with a small group of emigrés to develop lands his brother had received on Prince Edward Island that year. From the day he arrived, his main responsibility as

(Cape Breton Island), and during the siege he led one of the brigades ordered to the Lorembec (Lorraine) area. Following the capture of Louisbourg, Rollo was sent to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island

. 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

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

PARRY, Sir WILLIAM EDWARD, naval officer, Arctic explorer, and hydrographer; b. 19 Dec. 1790 in Bath, England, fourth

bishop’s order, he crossed to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). The bishop’s decision to send him there reflected the French government’s policy of attracting to the island the Acadians living under

 John (Prince Edward Island) – and forbade settlement west of the Appalachians. Wilmot protested that these new instructions, which offered unlimited grants and imposed few responsibilities on the

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

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

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

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

society for the promotion of agriculture, and he also belonged to an exclusive literary, scientific, and social group often patronized by Prince

Acadia, Placentia (Plaisance), and Île Royale (Cape Breton Island), councillor of the Conseil Supérieur of Île Royale, king’s lieutenant and commandant of Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), knight of

. 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