and deprived even of necessities, the missionary found solace in visits to his confrères on Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, and the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. They wrote to

work in the Acadian parishes. Lafrance went to Prince Edward Island with the bishop in 1838 and after studying at St Andrew’s College was ordained in Rustico on 2 April 1841. For the next 26

MOTT, JACOB S., printer, publisher, office holder, bookseller, and stationer; b. c. 1772 on Long Island, N.Y., son

Halifax. Son of a merchant and shipowner, Robert Weatherbe obtained his early education in Charlottetown. He left Prince Edward Island to attend Acadia

appointed to succeed Claude-Élisabeth Denys* de Bonnaventure as major and commandant of Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island

Edward Island), undoubtedly as much because of difficulties with Governor Lawrence Armstrong* as because no missionary had yet been assigned

Callbeck in St John’s (Prince Edward) Island the ships they wanted. On 17 March 1776 Shuldham evacuated the army of Lieutenant-General Sir William Howe and several thousand loyalist

harbour, commanded the small army detachment in Prince Edward Island, and served as acting deputy quartermaster general for the Nova Scotia command from November 1830 to September 1831

Chauvreulx* to Acadia in 1733. Negative evidence in church registers suggests that he did not go to Louisbourg or Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). It would be natural for a silversmith to seek

the goodwill of his congregation. He was appointed archdeacon of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island in 1825, and in April of the same year, chaplain to the Nova Scotia Legislative Council, a post he

factors bringing about, in 1846, the union of the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Baptist associations to form the Baptist Convention of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island (now the United

 April 1736 in Queens County, Long Island, N.Y., son of Gabriel Ludlow and Frances Duncan; m. 3 Sept. 1760 Ann Ver Planck; d. 12 Feb. 1808 in Saint John, N.B

. Fisher departed from there in 1791 for Lower Canada, where, by his account, he “had the honour of attending” Prince Edward* Augustus. This

Pictou on 2 May 1837. After working in various congregations he was called to Cavendish and New London, Prince Edward Island, and was ordained there on 13 March 1838. On 21 Sept. at

 Vallière was appointed adjutant in July 1720, and became a captain in March 1723. In 1728, during the absence of Jacques d’Espiet de Pensens, he was in command on Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward

becoming an important mining centre, and from there visited neighbouring mining communities such as Isle Royale (Mich.), Silver Harbour, and Vert Island. He ministered regularly at Prince Arthur’s Landing

being Lieutenant William Edward Parry*, captain of the latter vessel. The well-equipped expedition was to enter Davis Strait, make

. The Newcomb and Prince families had deep New England roots. John Newcomb was an innovative but desperately poor schoolteacher who moved the family to various parts of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward

record 1,210 miles between 4 April and 18 July, discovering parts of Prince Patrick, Emerald, Eglinton, and Melville islands. The expedition spent a second winter in the Arctic and then, in

employment in the colonies and in April 1836 he was appointed lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island. Harvey found himself confronted on Prince Edward