deposits. From the time of Fyshe’s arrival in Halifax at least seven Maritime banks had failed, and another one, the Union Bank of Prince Edward Island, had been absorbed by the Bank of Nova Scotia in 1883
legislation to establish the Intercolonial and Prince Edward Island Railways Employees’ Provident Fund. It provided pensions for employees who retired or who from illness or other causes were prevented from
. His father-in-law, Joseph-B. Poirier, who can be regarded as the forerunner of Acadian merchants on Prince Edward Island, had opened his first store in 1857, and his four sons would follow him in
. Dawson’s paternal grandfather was an Irish officer in the British army who settled on Prince Edward Island. There his son Benjamin was born and educated, but by the late 1820s Benjamin had moved to Halifax
Prince Edward Island in 1828 to manage the family’s extensive landholdings and, failing to garner enough income from his properties, became a businessman in Charlottetown and later headmaster of Central
Manitoba under his father-in-law, Edward Armstrong. He held the position until July 1880 when he became the province’s chief of police. Later he also served as an inspector of licences and as chairman
John, Great-West had agencies in every province from British Columbia to Prince Edward Island.
The formula for such success was straightforward
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Joseph Fletcher Brennan, a writer and publisher who may have been a native of Prince Edward Island, sent both William Arthur and his brother, Alfred Laurens, to school at St Dunstan’s College in
island in Pigeon Lake near Bobcaygeon, where he started the Big Island Stock Farm; he later added the Red Deer Hill Stock Farm near Prince Albert (Sask.). Boyd bred horses, cattle, and sheep for show and
province of Quebec at the same time. Among the most important were a wing for the Prince Edward Island legislative building, the cathedrals in Charlottetown and in Chatham, N.B., the Roman Catholic churches
was highly regarded by his students and by Department of Education officials. He none the less left the field of education in 1903 for a more remunerative position as manager for Prince Edward Island of
Allan*] and subsequently was employed in a brokerage office. Fond of soldiering and the outdoors, he joined the militia, enlisting in the 1st (Prince of Wales’s) Regiment of Volunteer Rifles as an
Andrew’s College in Prince Edward Island and at the Grand Séminaire de Québec. Ordained to the priesthood in 1844, he subsequently served parishes in Saint John, Wards Creek, Chatham, and Barachois, N.B
Colonial Committee of the Church of Scotland as a missionary to Prince Edward Island, he was ordained by the Presbytery of Glasgow in September and then on the
a family group of six emigrated to Prince Edward Island, where Mrs Sinclair purchased a 100-acre farm in a newly settled and inland section of Lot
. He was also the first president of the New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island Sunday School Association, and his involvement in the International Sunday School Association brought him into contact with
., lumber from Halifax and Prince Edward Island, and flour from New York, and carried Methodist missionaries to Newfoundland free of charge [see James
it obtained licences to sell products such as roofing and glass. Rhodes, Curry came to erect a vast number of buildings in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. Among its projects were
Charlottetown.
Arthur Peters was born into what passed for an aristocracy in 19th-century Prince Edward Island. As his obituary in the