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Public Archives and Records Office of Prince Edward Island
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Ms. E. McEwen collection

  • CA PCA Acc2677
  • Collection
  • ca. 1913

The collection consists of ten photographs and one postcard. Photographs include images of Charlottetown such as the post office, Provincial Building, Fort Edward, as well as the Victoria Park Roadway, Queen Square, Queen Street, and Victoria Row in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Another photograph depicts a Mi'Kmaq woman and a child standing outside a teepee. The postcard is entitled, "A Million Dollar Train transporting silver foxes from Tignish to the ranch of The Chas Dalton Silver Black Fox Co. Ltd." Individuals pictured in front of the train include Charles Dalton, M.G. Mooney, Edward Martin, Dr. Lundie, W.B. Prowse, Andy Bagnall and Pat Dorsey.

MacEwen, Mrs. E.

Mrs. W. Brenton Stewart collection

  • CA PCA Acc2684
  • Collection
  • ca. 1895

This collection consists of five photographs of the ice boat service between Prince Edward Island and the mainland as well as a daily ice boat log kept between 9 February 1895 and 10 April 1895 by Captains Muttart and W. N. Allen.

Stewart, Mrs. W. Brenton

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

Smith, Alley collection

  • CA PCA Acc2702
  • Collection
  • 1764-1912

This collection includes 1168 textual items, plus 235 images collected by Judge George Alley and Henry Smith pertaining largely to the early history of Prince Edward Island. A large proportion of the collection deals with the history of Charlottetown and the colony of Prince Edward Island during its early years of settlement. The collection is divided into 25 series, based on the arrangement that was imposed by the donor, and possibly earlier arrangement prior to donation to the Public Archives and Records Office. Arrangement was based on provenance, subject or contents or type of document. Series order has been rearranged to reflect government documents, family papers and miscellaneous. Many of the series include government records such as bills, acts, proclamations and petitions, Journals of the House of Assembly and Legislative Council, minutes of Council and claims, proposals and reports to the government. The collection includes several series of records pertaining to a number of families and individuals including: George Alley and the Alley family, Fanning family, Wright family, Bagnall family, Isaac Smith, James Bardin Palmer, and Edward Palmer. The collection includes lantern slides, photographs, textual materials and plans. The subject of the photographs is early Charlottetown, and its residents. Photographs include streetscapes, public buildings and private residences, and portraits of city officials and clergymen. The collection also includes records pertaining to the following subjects: inns, taverns, bridges, ferries, Loyalists, schools and education, the Land Question, military, agriculture, the administration of justice, postal service, land records, Charlottetown Market House, Court House, and Province House. A number of the documents in this collection are copies of original documents, many copied at the request of Judge George Alley in pursuit of his interest in writing a history of Prince Edward Island.

Alley, George

Prince Edward Island Board of Insurance Underwriters fonds

  • CA PCA Acc2713
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1967

The fonds consists of minutes of the PEI Board of Insurance Underwriters from 1883 to 1967. Within these minutes are reports of the Secretary, Inspector of Buildings, various committees, notices of meetings, as well as financial reports. Books of minimum tarriff rates for 1895, 1901, 1908, and 1915, list buildings of specific fire risk in various communities across PEI. In later years, the minutes often include a list of insurance companies and the individuals representing them, who sat on the PEI Board of Insurance Underwriters.

Prince Edward Island Board of Insurance Underwriters

Rankin, Morrison family fonds

  • CA PCA Acc2716
  • Fonds
  • 1821-1918

This fonds consists of eight letters written between members of the Rankin and Morrison families of Scotland and PEI. Neil, Coun Douly, and George are the three generations of Rankin family whose correspondence is documented in this fonds. Roderick Morrison, whose correspondence is also included in this fonds, was the tenth child of Hector and Marion. The correspondence relays information about immigrating to PEI, as well as information about friends and family members of the Rankin and Morrison clans. Letters from A.A. Bartlett, brother-in-law of C. D. Rankin, to Cowe Morrison in Mull, inquire about family members and reminisces about a visit to the Morrison family on the Isle of Mull. A newspaper clipping from the "Prince Edward Island Times" dated the 23 April 1836, contains information communicated by the government of the day to the residents of PEI, in which C. D. Rankin is frequently mentioned.

Morrison (Family)

Mrs. R. S. Armitage collection

  • CA PCA Acc2721
  • Collection
  • [before 1974]

This collection consists of 3 photographs. The first is of a military review; the second is of an unidentified male in a horse-drawn carriage; and the third is of the firing of the guns at Victoria Park, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

Armitage, Mrs. R. S.

Anonymous Queens County lumber dealer's fonds

  • CA PCA Acc2723
  • Fonds
  • 1876-1879

The fonds contains an account book, inscribed "Brush Book," which lists purchases made by the lumber dealer's clients, most of whom are identified as living in Queens County, Prince Edward Island.

Unknown

Murdock MacLeod fonds : [1831-1839; 1851]

  • CA PCA Acc2727
  • Fonds
  • Copied 1974

This collection consists of four letters written to Murdock MacLeod. Three of the letters in this collection are from Murdock's wife Effy MacDonald and his friend John Campbell between 1832 and 1839. There is also an unsigned letter written mostly in Gaelic dated 1831. The collection also contains an envelope addressed to Rev. J. B. Strong, Wesleyan Minister at Bingham College dated 1851.

MacLeod, Murdock

James Power fonds

  • CA PCA Acc2732
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1904

This fonds consists of two ledger books with indexes kept by James Power, blacksmith, between 1883 and 1904. The ledgers contain listings of debts and credits for James' customers in the Emerald Junction, Prince Edward Island area. The indexes refer to individuals in both ledgers.

Power, James

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