life of central Kings County for over a century. His paternal grandfather, Andrew, a Highland tacksman and merchant, had emigrated to Prince Edward Island with about 40 kinsmen in 1806. He purchased

. Ian Ross Robertson Prince Edward Island, Supreme Court, Estates Division

who emigrated to eastern Nova Scotia in 1833 and moved to southeastern Prince Edward Island in 1844, William McPhail was a licensed teacher at Newtown (Newtown Cross) by 1847. He taught in a number of

Aubin-Edmond*, followed their father into politics. Aubin-Edmond was premier of Prince Edward Island from 1917 to 1919, the first Acadian to hold that office in any Canadian province

, and believing that the purpose of the state was to carry out God’s will, Murray helped to move religious concerns beyond the church and into the centre of political life on Prince Edward Island

. Setting out first on 15 April in company with another sledge under Captain Ommanney, Mecham and a crew of six men travelled as far south as Russell Island and the northern extremity of Prince of

Grammar School, Middlesex. In 1841, at the age of 16, he emigrated with his family to Prince Edward Island. His father, a retired naval commander, quickly gained entry into the Island’s rather narrow social

loyal supporter of the Young Men’s Christian Association and Literary Institute, belonged to the Prince Edward Island Association for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, and was an organizer in late

shareholder of the Merchants Bank of Prince Edward Island. He also ran a starch factory at Long Creek and a lobster-canning factory at Canoe Cove. In addition, he owned, by deed or mortgage, numerous residences

Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) having been unable through ill health to make the trip, Cassiet was sent to serve Malpeque, a largely Micmac mission established earlier on the island by Maillard

. Campbell was more fortunate with his History of Prince Edward Island, published in the autumn of 1875, for he had the time and opportunity to study and absorb his subject. To prepare himself he

England Sleigh bought from an absentee proprietor 100,000 acres of land in Kings County, in eastern Prince Edward Island, for £20,000, and about 1850 he returned to North America as an independent gentleman

. In 1775 Charles Stewart accompanied his family to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, where his father had been appointed chief justice. A collector of offices – frequently as a deputy doing

Prince Edward Island with his wife and family. Shortly after his arrival in 1836 Holl purchased over 600 acres of land in Lot 32 near Charlottetown

England; m. 8 June 1797 Rebecca Robinson in Charlottetown, St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, and they had at least one son; d. there 5 Jan. 1811

) McRae; d. there unmarried 17 Feb. 1937. Eliza Margaret MacKenzie was born and raised in the Belfast area of Prince Edward Island, a

general of Prince Edward Island in the place of Joseph Aplin. Wentworth’s distant relationship to the lieutenant

several important official functions on Prince Edward Island. The elder Gray later married the daughter of Lieutenant George Burns, a proprietor and prominent public figure who had come to the Island in

MacDonald* of Glenaladale, a Roman Catholic landed proprietor on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, and Margaret MacDonald, Donald McDonald was educated by the Jesuits at Stonyhurst College in

Capital,” he answered an advertisement from John Hill*, a proprietor of land on Prince Edward Island, for an attorney to supervise his properties