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 Glasgow. In 1811 he joined the Hudson’s Bay Company and sailed with other apprentices from Stornoway to York Factory (Man.) in the chartered ship Edward and Ann. From 1811 to 1817 Tod was
.
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
referred to as “Mr. Landry from Montreal” when he went to Prince Edward Island in the early 1860s to work with Father George-Antoine
hinting at cooperation if he selected a “maritime situation,” 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
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
James*, studied law and in 1828 became chief justice of Prince Edward Island.
C. M. Wallace
. 20 March 1917 in Vancouver.
Malcolm MacLennan was brought up on Prince Edward Island in a Presbyterian farm family of nine children. Like many
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
only a few years, to be sold when he needed replacements, or saw an opportunity for profit. At first he bought former prizes, but later purchased ships constructed in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
immediately posted to the garrison at Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), commanded by his uncle, Louis Denys de La Ronde. Its function was to protect the colonists sent there by the Comte de Saint
commissary and storekeeper in Prince Edward Island; his regiment disbanded the same year. He was also named to the Council that year by Lieutenant Governor Edmund Fanning and on 13 Dec. 1806 became a
became collector of customs and naval officer for St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. He may have obtained the appointments because of a family connection with George, Viscount
denominational life saw Bill’s energetic leadership. For ten years (1846–56) he served as secretary of the newly formed Baptist Convention of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, and later he was
White, in Springfield, Kings County, N.B.; they had no children; d. 19 June 1937 in Halifax.
Prince Edward Island farmers James
missionary to Prince Edward Island, he was ordained by the Presbytery of Glasgow in September and then on the 29th he married Jessie Calder Pollok in Govan; they were to have three sons and five daughters
fellow Lowland Scots on the Lovely Nelly, bound for Georgetown, St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. Although the failure to “earn bread sufficient to support . . . his family” was
. Dalzell, The Queen Charlotte Islands, 1774–1966 (Terrace, B.C., 1968); The Queen Charlotte Islands, book 2, of places and names (Prince Rupert, B.C., 1973). R
Prince Patrick Island. On 8 May 1854 he left Resolute, which was shortly to be abandoned, and led a party of invalids to North Star anchored at Beechey Island. Four months later he