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McDougall family fonds

  • CA PCA Acc3163
  • Collection
  • 1793-1857

The collection consists of forty-six letters written to or by members of Alexander and Elizabeth McDougall's family from 1793 to 1857. Approximately fifteen of these letters were written to Elizabeth from her Campbell family members in Scotland. From 1819 to 1825, Allan wrote five letters to Harriet Campbell before returning to Scotland to marry her. Other letters consist of correspondence to Allan McDougall from an aunt and uncle in Scotland, as well as letters written between McDougall siblings and their spouses. The collection also contains a promissory note from Allan McDougall to James Anderson (16 November 1847), and notes for a letter to Ms. Myers, donor of this collection, regarding the area in Scotland from where the McDougall family emigrated.

McDougall (Family), Belfast (P.E.I.)

Court of Chancery fonds

  • CA PCA RG6.6
  • Fonds
  • 1793-1974

The fonds consists of the administrative and operational (i.e. case papers) records of the court from its inception, ca. 1793, to its demise in 1974. They are arranged in the following series:

Series 1: Minutes, orders & commissions
Series 2: Case papers
Series 3: Correspondence
Series 4: Register of decrees in Chancery
Series 5: Account books
Series 6: Judges' notes
Series 7: Registrar's records
Series 8: Daniel Hodgson scholarship

Prince Edward Island. Court of Chancery

Provincial Secretary fonds

  • CA PCA RG7
  • Fonds
  • 1795-1978

This fonds consists of records spanning colonial administration in Prince Edward Island to the end of the government department known as the Department of Provincial Secretary. Records in this fonds provide a glimpse of early administrative duties to the wide variety of responsibilities of a small government department. Included in this fonds is administrative correspondence; registration records of patents, copyright, joint stock companies, motor vehicles, and credit unions; tavern, inn, peddler and marriage licensing records; Royal and state visit itinerary and planning files; subject files; business taxation records; election files; maps; some photographs; architectural drawings of proposed government administration buildings; and files pertaining to the establishment of the Prince Edward Island National Park. This fonds divides into the following 22 series: licenses, patents, letter books, justices of the peace, oaths of allegiance and office, copyright registrations, royal visits, commissions, joint stock companies, elections, taxation records, motor vehicle registrations, correspondence and subject files, Prince Edward Island National Park, credit unions, Minister's files, Centennial 1967, a miscellaneous series, succession duty records, Winding Up act records and provincial survey.

Prince Edward Island. Department of the Provincial Secretary

Macgowan family fonds

  • CA PCA Acc4785
  • Fonds
  • 1797, 1799, 1859-1904, 1965; Photocopied 2002

The fonds contains various papers related and belonging to the descendants of Peter Macgowan, including a petition of appeal (n. d.), land records (1797, 1799, 1874), an unidentified account book (1859-1883), an unidentified sketch (n. d.), a wedding announcement for Aenas A. MacDonald and Margaret J. MacDonald (1904), a soubenir (ca. December 1901) of Elizabeth L. Macdonald who died 12 July 1901, a letter from James C. Pope to a Mr. Tilly regarding PEI joining Confederation (1873), and correspondence regarding a land dispute between John Macgowan and the Estate of John Knight (1871, 1878). There is also some correspondence (1890-1895) relating to the building of the St. Alban the Martyr Anglican Church in Souris to which Jane Macgowan contributed financial support. The fonds also contains transcribed extracts from a scrapbook kept by Jane Caroline MacCallum Macgown, wife of John Macgowan, ca. 1907. The scrapbook was transcribed by Jane's great-grandson, Kenneth Owen Macgowan, ca. 1965.

Macgowan (Family)

Theophilus Chappell fonds

  • CA PCA Acc2914
  • Fonds
  • 1799-1823

The fonds consist of one day book belonging to Theophilus Chappell, which records daily and monthly information concerning his employment from 1799-1823. During this time, the day book indicates that Theophilus Chappell lived in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, but traveled to Murray Harbour to work for John Cambridge, who owned a large fishery, sawmill, and shipyard. Entries include his work undertaken on barracks, mills, and churches. Also documented is the "Amount of sale bought from John Cambridge" for individuals, consisting of both grocery items and construction materials.

Chappell, Theophilus

Dixon family fonds

  • CA PCA Acc5004
  • Fonds
  • [18-?], [ca. 1993]

The fonds consists of an undated, anonymous ninety-eight page family history of the descendants of John Dixon and Sarah Rooper and a two-volume Dixon family Bible. The family history contains background information on John Dixon and Sarah Rooper and their nine children. The document includes endnotes regarding sources and a name index. The family Bible contains one and a quarter pages of vital statistics information concerning the descendants of John and Sarah (Roper) Dixon. The information records dates from 1817 to 1865. The Bible also features signatures and dates of various family members inside the front and back covers. The Dixon family Bible appears to be the product of early Prince Edward Island printer and publisher John Henry White. While earlier versions of this Bible were published in Halifax, the title page of the second volume's New Testament indicates that this version was of "Charlotte-Town [sic], P.E. Island: Printed and Published by John H. White". Both volumes contain small plates inside their front covers reading "J. S. Bremner, Binder, Charlottetown".

Dixon, John (Family)

Macmillan family (Lot 33) fonds

  • CA PCA Acc4076
  • Fonds
  • 1802-1898

This fonds consists of property documents, accounts, and correspondence of the Macmillan family of Lots 33 and 34. It includes leases from James Montgomery and James Hodges to Donald Macmillan and to Roderick Steele. The Steele property was later acquired by the Macmillan family. Other landwowners noted are Lauchlan Macmillan, Ewen Macmillan and Charles Macmillan. Also included are probate documents concerning the estates of Lauchlan Macmillan, Alexander Cameron and John Macmillan.

Macmillan (Family), Lot 33 (P.E.I.)

St. Margaret's Church collection

  • CA PCA Acc5045
  • Collection
  • 1803, ca. 1957-1969

The collection consists of the original parish site deed and list of deeds for St. Margaret's Church in St. Margaret's, Prince Edward Island. The list of deeds (ca. 1957-1969) names and dates the following five deeds: parish farm (1893), cemetery (1894), original parish site (ca. 1805), addition to the cemetery (1957), and property by the shoreline (1890). The original parish site deed from 23 July 1803 was signed by Thomas Wright, James McCormick, John Cambridge, and certified by Thomas Desbrisay. Attached to the deed is a hand-coloured map from 1846 of St. Margaret's Church and surrounding area by Surveyor Thomas Irwin, from the office of the Surveyor General in Charlottetown.

St. Margaret's Roman Catholic Church

Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk fonds

  • CA PCA Acc2690
  • Fonds
  • 1803

The fonds consists of six original letters written by Thomas Douglas to Reverend Angus McAulay, the Earl of Selkirk's representative in Prince Edward Island, in 1803. The first letter, dated in March of that year, was addressed from Dumfries, Scotland, and the letters that follow were written from Charlottetown. All of the correspondence concerns the settlement of the Belfast area. Also included in the fonds are photocopies and typed transcripts of the letters, as well as a print of a Jackdaw portrait of Lord Selkirk, taken from an unidentified published document, [before 1970].

Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, Earl of

Brigadier J. P. Crowe collection

  • CA PCA Acc3367
  • Collection
  • 1803-1825

The majority of the collection consists of items relating to Edward James Jarvis (1788-1833). After studying law in London, England, from 1813-1816, Jarvis became a lawyer, notary, office holder, judge, and politician in Prince Edward Island. The collection contains Jarvis' journal, documenting a trip to Paris in 1814, and the wig he wore while acting as Chief justice of P.E.I. Also included are two items of correspondence written while in Malta, to relatives in New Brunswick. The first letter was written by Edward and his first wife, Anna Maria (Boyd), to Munson Jarvis, Edward's father, in Saint John and the second by Ann Maria to her sister Mrs. Robert Hagen in Saint John.

The collection also contains the marriage license of James Bardin Palmer (1771-1833) and Millicent Jones, who were married by T. Desbrisay on the 22 December 1803. Palmer was a land agent, lawyer, office holder, and politician in PEI. He was the son of Joseph Palmer and Susanna Bardin of Dublin, Ireland.

Crowe, J. P., Brigadier

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