, he improved their working conditions and in 1907 sponsored legislation to establish the Intercolonial and Prince Edward Island Railways Employees’ Provident Fund. It provided pensions for employees who
Union Bank of Prince Edward Island, had been absorbed by the Bank of Nova Scotia in 1883. Fyshe had recognized the forces at work which would result in his, and the Merchants’ Bank of Halifax (later the
for the Dominion Life Assurance Company helped A. G. Jones and Company expand rapidly, but the biggest boost to the firm occurred in 1899 when it became agent in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island
was born two years after his father, a textile manufacturer from Bradford, Yorkshire, England, left Prince Edward Island and relocated his woollen mill in Nova Scotia. Charles Stanfield chose Truro, a
superintendent of its busiest commuter line, the Long Island Rail Road.
Thornton’s skilful direction of the LIRR drew the attention of the wider railway world
relating to Newfoundland occurred in 1810, when he applied for letters patent entitling him to “the exclusive privilege of taking whales” in the island’s coastal waters, by an elaborate, if somewhat fanciful
Antinomianism.” Prince Edward Island had seen no Methodist minister since Black’s brief visit in 1794. There were in the entire region about 850 Methodists, a meagre harvest, particularly in the light of the
, but on 27 September, after the resumption of war with France, he was chosen governor of Dominica. In 1803 he fought against the French to retain possession of that island and to recapture St
clerk at Montreal and at Carleton Island (N.Y.) while building up a small trade at the upper posts on his own account. In May 1780 he left the Ellices to form a partnership with the New York loyalist
possibility of a legislative union of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island [see Arthur Hamilton
affairs, particularly after 1832. He was involved in the achievement of independence by Belgium and Greece and in the accession of Prince Leopold to the throne of Belgium, and then was entrusted in July
tunnel to Prince Edward Island. Later in the decade he surveyed the St Clair River preparatory to the construction of a tunnel. Commission work also engrossed Shanly’s attention: in May 1886 he
, delivered in St. Dunstan’s Cathedral, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, on Thursday, August 16, 1860 (Charlottetown, 1860); A sermon
short time, then, on 23 May 1819, set out with Franklin for York Factory on the Hudson’s Bay Company ship Prince of Wales. Dr John
’Irumberry* de Salaberry, and godson of Prince Edward Augustus*. In 1793 his health began to fail, and Father Berey came to live with him
Bridge*, curate to the rector of St John’s, and Mark Willoughby*, superintendent of the Newfoundland School Society for the island. In
Anne, where he had to rebuild the chapel and school, which had been destroyed by fire, he preached here and there, went to Prince Edward Island, spent several months in Montreal, and published numerous
, daughter of the Reverend John MacLennan*, in Prince Edward Island.
Besides his strong biblical
marriage of the Prince of Wales to Princess Alexandra of Denmark in 1863, Nova Scotia’s lieutenant governor, Lord Mulgrave
of the new government, including his own minister, David Laird* of Prince Edward Island, describing him as “a long, lanky conjointed creature