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Public Archives and Records Office of Prince Edward Island Collection
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Winifred Clark collection

  • CA PCA Acc3118
  • Collection
  • 192-?

The fonds consists of eleven color postcards, eight of which depict streets and buildings in Charlottetown such as St. Dunstan's College, Prince of Wales College, Victoria Hotel, Queen's Square, Grafton Street, Queen Street, Great George Street, as well as Victoria Park. Other postcards depict Rocky Point, the Summerside Post Office, and the "Prince Edward Island" car ferry. Two postcards include messages to William Carr of Elm Avenue, Charlottetown.

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E. W. Bowness collection

  • CA PCA Acc2347
  • Collection
  • 1899-1900, [196-?]

This collection consists of two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, dated 1899-1900, about the Boer War and the participation of Prince Edward Islanders in the war. Also included are 4 color slides of graveyards and graves of Canadian soldiers in South Africa. The slides were probably taken during the 1960s.

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Eric L. Harvie collection

  • CA PCA Acc4640
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1747-1844]

The collection consists of 9 items which pertain to Prince Edward Island's early history. Included are 4 maps of the maritime provinces, a circa 1767 description of the Island of Saint John, Prince Edward Island land grant reports for 1769 and 1844, and correspondence dated 1811 between the Rt. Hon. Robert Dundas and J. Wolfe Murray regarding Scottish emigration to Prince Edward Island and other points in North America.

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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.

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John P. Nicholson collection

  • CA PCA Acc4605
  • Collection
  • 1774-1872

The collection consists of three legal texts presumably collected by Justice Nicholson during his legal career. They include a book of case forms, handwritten by Phillips Callbeck circa 1774, "The lawyers' common-place book...", 1860 (inscribed "M. MacLeod") and "Reports of decisions of the Supreme Court, Court of Chancery, and Court of Vice-Admiralty of Prince Edward Island, delivered by Hon. James Horsfield Peters", 1872. The two latter books have labels marked "W.E. Bentley". The common-place book contains handwritten synopses of cases and the third volume also includes handwritten reports of cases not included in the printed volume. Some of these may be in Judge Nicholson's hand.

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MacMillan family collection

  • CA PCA Acc2367
  • Collection
  • 1788-1972

The majority of the collection consists of documents relating to Alexander McMillan the elder and Alexander McMillan the younger and the land they owned in Lot 57. Land records of the McMillan family include conveyances, notice of sales, leases, surveys, and plans of the township. Other records of the McMillan family include correspondence, as well as financial and legal documents concerning the rent of land as well as probate documents. Miscellaneous items include newspaper clippings, as well as obituary notices for Joseph A. MacMillan. The records are arranged into the following series:

  1. Land records
  2. Correspondence
  3. Financial records
  4. Legal records
  5. Miscellaneous files

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Mary Brehaut collection

  • CA PCA Acc4637
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1793], 1804-1832

The collection consists of the papers of Captain Angus MacAulay (?-1810) of Halifax, Nova Scotia and Pinette, Prince Edward Island; papers of Charles (? - before 1875) and Elizabeth Stewart (1783-1875) of Pinette, and a circa 1793 muster roll of the Loyal Independent Caledonian Company of Volunteers. The Captain MacAulay papers, dating 1804-1809, include personal accounts, shipping records, ships logs of the "Archangel" and "Bonne Citoyenne", and legal papers involving Capt. MacAulay. This collection also includes papers of Charles Stewart and his wife Elizabeth, widow of Capt. Angus MacAulay who drowned in 1810 in Charlottetown. The Stewart documents include personal accounts and receipts, correspondence, land agreements and papers regarding legal action between Charles and Robert Stewart dating between 1813 and 1832. The collection also includes one file of notes compiled by Mary Brehaut regarding Angus MacAulay of Belfast and other Belfast or Selkirk settlers.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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