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In 1751 Pierre Dugas and his family moved from Cobequid to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). Along with other Acadians there, Pierre, his wife, and six children were victims of the deportation
Prince Edward Island for service in Burma.
The personal motives for Norris’s mission goal cannot be understood apart from her evangelical faith. There
Cochran.
In April 1824 Ready was appointed lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island, but his departure was delayed by the ill health of his
the expedition had penetrated as far as Melville Island, having discovered and named Prince Regent Inlet, Barrow Strait, Wellington Channel, and the North Georgian (Parry) Islands. The vessels wintered
, Bayfield worked mainly on the coasts of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. His staff gradually increased to include three assistant surveyors, a draughtsman, and a medical officer. One or two of his
wife was also ejected from the congregation because it was supposed “she was the principal author of the letter.” None the less, Cowdell turned up briefly as a lay preacher in Prince Edward Island
. In October 1873 Schreiber became chief engineer for all government railways in operation. Privately, beginning in 1871, he had also undertaken contracting work for the Prince Edward Island Railway
Scotland about 1818 to lead a group of Scottish immigrants to Prince Edward Island where they settled on the Hunter River near Charlottetown and where Cormack was land agent for David Rennie, a Glasgow
December. He was made welcome by some of the most prominent members of military and colonial society, including in Halifax, Prince Edward* Augustus
Parry’s third expedition, which left England in May 1824. After wintering at Port Bowen on the east shore of Prince Regent Inlet, the ships encountered pressure from ice off Somerset Island in late
of his men settled on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. Maclean himself later received a land grant there along with several other Maclean gentry, but he does not appear to have settled on the
in different parts of the world, becoming a brigadier-general in 1796. Two years later he came to Nova Scotia to serve under Prince Edward
parish by July 1857.
In November 1858 Duffy migrated to Prince Edward Island, becoming assistant at St Dunstan’s Cathedral in
the NTQR Company, now known as the Bay of Quinte Railway and Navigation Company. He remained with Rathbun until 1900, when a contractor for the Prince Edward Island Railway engaged him to create plans
confirms the reorientation of regional life in the decades after confederation. About 1880 his family left Prince Edward Island and settled in Moncton, N.B., one of the urban centres which benefited from the
, built by John G. Parker in 1833. In 1847 he purchased the City of Kingston, which had been built on Garden Island as the Prince Edward in 1841 by Dileno Dexter
for two absentee land proprietors in Prince Edward Island, David and Robert Bruce Stewart, who faced threats of non-payment of rents by their tenants and of hostile legislative action by the provincial
; with a brief outline of Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, was printed in 1855 by Richard Nugent* in Halifax. In many ways the
. c. 1840 in Prince Edward Island, daughter of John Geddie* and Charlotte Lenora Harrington MacDonald; m. 21 Sept
successful, he returned to England in 1860 to marry Elizabeth Eilbeck and then brought his wife to Prince Edward Island. News of the gold discoveries in the Cariboo district of British Columbia soon caught his