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A Short description of the Island of St. John, in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, North-America : [25 June 1779]

  • CA PCA Acc4437
  • Fonds
  • 25 June 1779

This fonds consists of a pamphlet which appears to be one of Robert Clark's attempts to entice settlers to the colony of St. John's Island. Signed by various London merchants, it depicts an idyllic pastoral setting with great prospects of profit in agriculture, fishing, and commerce for those of an industrious and enterprising nature. All this was to be had for the purchase price of 100 per 500 acres or for a lease granted on "the most reasonable terms".

Clark, Robert

Alexander Stewart fonds : [1805]

  • CA PCA Acc2657
  • Fonds
  • 1805

The fonds consists of a three page transcription of a letter written by Alexander Stewart on 12 October 1805, to his father, James Stewart in Perthshire, Scotland. Alexander's letter, postmarked from Charlottetown, was written in response to a letter written by his family in February of that same year. Alexander writes of ships arriving in PEI with emigrants from Belfast and the Isle of Skye. Stewart offers to pay for the passage of his brother John, and encourages his father James to emigrate to PEI for the quality of life it offers and the availability of land.

Stewart, Alexander

Benevolent Irish Society fonds

  • CA PCNCU S1983001
  • Fonds
  • 1871-1880, 1982-1983

During the summers of 1982 and 1983, the Benevolent Irish Society secured funding to hire a group of students to conduct an oral history project and interview individuals of Irish descent from across Prince Edward Island. The fonds consists of these oral history interviews and related documentation, as well as the minutes of the B.I.S. for the period 1871-1880. The fonds has been divided into the following series:
Series 1: Oral history interviews
Series 2: Oral history documentation and genealogies
Series 3: Photographs, negatives, and documentation
Series 4: Parish histories
Series 5: Minutes, 1871-1880

Benevolent Irish Society

Beryl Barrett fonds

  • CA PCA Acc3389
  • Fonds
  • 1816, [before 1982]

The fonds consists of two copies of an undated article written by Beryl Barrett entitled "The Early Hessian Setters of Prince Edward Island." This twelve page article revolves around the families of Johann Christian Ernst Junker (Younker) and George Weckesser (Vickerson), their German origins, service in the American Revoluton, and their emigration to PEI in the late 1700s. The fonds also contains a letter written by Robert Gray to Lieutenant Governor Charles Douglass Smith regarding public money dated the 17 September 1816.

Barrett, Beryl

Catherine St. John collection : [1834-1970]

  • CA PCA Acc3023
  • Collection
  • 1834-1970

This fonds consists of the correspondence of brothers David (1769-1852) and Robert Bruce Stewart, (?-1846) originally of Perthshire, Scotland, who worked as surveyors and land agents in London, England, to William Buchanan (1800-?). Correspondence between 24 March 1834 and 18 February 1835, deal with the transfer of one-hundred acres of land in Prince Edward Island from the Stewarts to Buchanan. Further correspondence pertaining to this transfer was written between 20 October 1875 and 13 December 1875, by various land agents. The fonds also contains genealogical notes on Isabella Purdie Stewart, wife of Robert and David's brother James, notes taken from tourist information written in 1967 concerning David and Robert Stewart, and extracts from a letter from the Public Archives of Canada written to Catherine St. John in April 1970, regarding the Stewart brothers.

St. John, Catherine

Diary of Henry Smith, Esquire while sailing to New Zealand : [1858-1859]

  • CA PCA Acc4331
  • Fonds
  • Transcribed [199-]

The diary contains an account of the voyage from the port of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island on 2 December 1858 to arrival just off the harbour of Auckland on 9 May 1859. Graham appears to have transcribed entries in their entirety to the end of January and from then on to have combined this with a precis of some "less interesting" sections. Details recorded include raging storms and becalming doldrums, course and mileage covered, food, illnesses encountered, and behavior of passengers. There is no account of the passengers first impressions of their new home. Also included is a copy of the survey of the "Prince Edward" declaring her fit for the voyage and a page of genealogical notes re. Henry Smith and his son John.

Smith, Henry

James P. Lawson collection : [1768-1772; 1990-1994]

  • CA PCA Acc4326
  • Collection
  • Photocopied 1993, 1996

The collection contains copies of articles on passengers on the "Alexander" and the "Princetown pioneers" written by Rev. Lawson which appeared in the "Island magazine". Also included are research notes re. Scottish sources checked for references to emigration to the new world, in particular to the vessels "Annabella" and "Edinburgh". There is also a copy of the passenger list for the latter vessel. Relevant references have been transcribed or copied. Sources include "The Scots magazine" 1768-1771, Letterbooks of the Customs collector at Campbeltown to the Board of Customs, 1770-1772, Customs accounts, Campbeltown, 1767-1771, and the Campbeltown register of shipping as well as miscellaneous church and public records.

Lawson, James P.

John Small fonds : [1790-1826]

  • CA PCA Acc2968
  • Fonds
  • [1790-1826]

The fonds consists of a journal written by John Small between 1790 and 1826. In this journal he documents his move to Bedeque, Prince Edward Island. The journal records his employment as a shipwright. Also copied in the journal are verses from the bible, death records of friends and family members, prescriptions for various medical conditions, and family genealogy written by descendant Alfred Small in 1958.

Small, John

Margaret Bagnall fonds : [1937]

  • CA PCA Acc3071
  • Fonds
  • 1937

The fonds consists of a twelve page memoir written by Margaret Bagnall in 1937. The majority of the memoir consists of information about her family who moved from Prince Edward Island to New Zealand in the 1860s.

Bagnall, Margaret

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.)

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