archives at Warwick, England, from the Nova Scotia surveyor Charles Morris to one John Butler, agent for John Pownall, at that time proprietor of Lot 13 on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. The previous

Prince Edward Island, and they had two sons and two daughters; fl. 1803–15. Although a detailed biographical background for James Williams survives on

 1842. George Wright’s father, who became in 1773 the first surveyor general of St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, founded one of its many office

. Stephen Jenkins came from a notable Prince Edward Island family – the Anglican clergyman Theophilus Desbrisay* was a great-grandfather

 John’s (Prince Edward) Island, one of ten children of Angus MacDonald and Penelope MacDonald; d. 30 Dec. 1859 at St Dunstan’s College, near Charlottetown

natural philosophy and a medal in chemistry. In November 1862 Anderson and his bride sailed for Prince Edward Island, where he began teaching mathematics

mother and family to Prince Edward Island in 1843. As a young man, Dawson began work as a clerk in the Charlottetown dry-goods firm of John Thomas Thomas

DALTON, CHARLES, farmer, druggist, co-founder of the silver-fox industry in Prince Edward Island, politician, philanthropist, and

Academy, Halifax, N.S., Donald Currie became a teacher in the public schools of rural Prince Edward Island. On 1 Feb. 1859 he was appointed assistant master of the Central Academy, a position he

administrator. When Dundas arrived in Prince Edward Island on 7 June 1859 to take up his duties as lieutenant governor, he was stepping into a delicate

People’s Cemetery. J. D. Stewart was born during a period in Prince Edward Island that helped define his career. The post-confederation era was

. Gilbert Buote’s father was the first Acadian schoolteacher in Prince Edward Island. He taught initially in Rustico, his native parish, and then in Miscouche after his marriage in 1819. In 1835 he settled at

Jones, superior of the eastern missions, Pichard and Calonne proceeded to Prince Edward Island, where Pichard was to divide his time among the Acadian missions of Malpeque, Rustico, and Bay

Arsenault was one of the prime movers of the Acadian community in Prince Edward Island early in the 20th century. One of ten children in a family of modest means, he grew up on a small farm and attended the

Boston, Massachusetts; d. April 1783 at Charlottetown, St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. Nothing is known of David Higgins’ background or

had 16 children; d. 25 Sept. 1819, aged 86, on Prince Edward Island. Of Huguenot ancestry, Thomas Desbrisay was a member of “one of

ordination, and he remained there until spring 1830. At that time Father McDonald departed for Prince Edward Island taking with him 206 Scots and Irish as tenants for the lands he had inherited. He settled the

more than political points on a tunnel: in 1886 he formed a company to build the project in return for complete ownership of the Prince Edward Island Railway and an annual operating subsidy. His

again and the couple probably immigrated the same year to Port Hill, Prince County, Prince Edward Island. There Yeo worked as superintendent of the lumbering gangs and helped with the management of the

medicine. In 1856, for example, as chairman of the Prince Edward Island Medical Association, he unsuccessfully petitioned the assembly for an act that would set standards for the medical profession and