lack of education in the law rather than from wilful disobedience. He was compensated with the post of lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island, which fell vacant while he was in London

Tilley cemented his links with what was to become the pro-confederation faction in New Brunswick. Similarly, his circle of associates on Prince Edward Island came to include William Henry

, Poplar Grove, Covehead, P.E.I. Little is known of James Curtis’s background before his arrival on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island around 1770 as

he joined his brother William and his half-brother John Pope on Prince Edward Island, where the two had established a business as early as 1817. The Popes were among the West Countrymen who had entered

Prince Edward Island, son of James Coles and Sarah Tally; d. 21 Aug. 1875 in Charlottetown Royalty, P.E.I. George Coles spent his early years

a bargain for the man’s daughter, all because he had allowed a blacksmith to act as his go-between. “Prince Edward Isle, adieu” portrays the evils generally supposed to have been brought to the Island

. Born into an Anglican, Anglo-Irish family, Francis Longworth immigrated to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island around 1791. He was a tanner by trade, but by no means a simple tradesman: he had

Charles*, and his father all held the office of surveyor general of Prince Edward Island. Wright evidently studied under the direction of his father and by 1829 was working in the office of the surveyor

responsible government in Prince Edward Island was the object of confused debate [see George Coles* and John Longworth]. Francis Longworth

. John Stewart arrived on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island in November 1775 with his father, recently appointed chief justice of the colony, his brother

of John Haythorne and Mary Curtis; d. 7 May 1891 in Ottawa. When 25-year-old Robert Poore Haythorne arrived in Prince Edward Island in

. William Henry Pope received his early education in Prince Edward Island and proceeded to higher studies in England, from which his father had emigrated in 1819. William read law at the Inner Temple

Palmer’s admission that he had “failed in his circumstances” before coming to Prince Edward Island as a land agent. He arrived in August 1802 as the agent of the Reverend Raphael Walsh of Dublin, half

WRIGHT, CHARLES, surveyor and office holder; b. 21 July 1782 on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, third son of Surveyor

,” characteristics that made him difficult to work with and an implacable enemy. Nevertheless, he contributed much to Acadian life on Prince Edward Island and is one of the most important figures of its “renaissance

welcome relief for the young couple, and word that Robinson would be lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island was good news indeed. Prince Edward

children; d. 5 Feb. 1864 in Charlottetown, P.E.I. After immigrating to Prince Edward Island from Devizes, Wiltshire, in the early 1820s

. Frederick Brecken belonged to a Prince Edward Island family with a tradition of political activity. His father was a member of the House of Assembly and of the Executive and Legislative councils; a

. When the Acadians living on Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) were deported in 1758, Louis Gallant and his family took refuge at Baie des Chaleurs, settling first at Ristigouche, and later at

came to Prince Edward Island, where there was a large Scottish population and few competing clergymen of any denomination. He was probably encouraged to migrate to the Island by John Scott, another