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Only top-level descriptions Public Archives and Records Office of Prince Edward Island Collection Scotland - Emigration and immigration
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Selkirk Settlers 200th Anniversary collection

  • CA PCA Acc4974
  • Collection
  • 2003

This collection consists records of the 200th anniversary celebration of the "Selkirk Settlers" sponsored by the Belfast Historical Society in August 2003. Material includes a copy of "Selkirk settlers : 200th anniversary commemorative booklet : Belfast, Prince Edward Island, 1803-2003", brochures, programmes, tickets, and a 120 minute commemorative DVD of the anniversary celebrations.

Belfast Historical Society

From clan to clearance : history and archaeology on the Isle of Barra, c. 850-1850 AD / by Keith Branigan with J. M. Bumstead . . . [et al.] ; and contributions from E. Campbell . . . [et al.] . Oxford: Oxbow Books

  • CA PCA Acc4881
  • Collection
  • [ca. 2005]

The fonds contains Keith Branigan's book "From Clan to Clearance: History and Archaeology on the Isle of Barra, c. 850-1850 AD". The work is the result of over fifteen years of historical and archaeological research into the history of Barra, Scotland, and its people. The author draws upon field surveys, excavations, and documentary research from the United Kingdom and Canada. A catalogue of named emigrants from the Isle of Barra to British North America (1772-1851) also appears at the end of the volume. The fonds also includes a computer disk containing the emigrant catalogue in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) and in Microsoft Excel and OpenOffice spreadsheets.

Branigan, Keith

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.

Harvie, Eric L.

W. Earle Lockerby collection : [1773, 1789, 1997]

  • CA PCA Acc4583
  • Collection
  • 1983, 1989, Copied 1997-1999

The collection contains copies of the Lockerby genealogy written by W. Earle Lockerby as well as the history of the community of Hamilton which he edited. It also contains photocopies of a petition and affidavit from the Scottish Record Office pertaining to the voyage of the "Edinburgh" to Isle St. Jean in 1773; an article by Frank Bigwood from "Kintyre magazine" containing a passenger list for the "Edinburgh"; and a covering letter by Earle Lockerby. The latter gives a new interpretation of the date and circumstances of the arrival of the Woodside and Montgomery families on Prince Edward Island. The fonds also contains a copy of the Royal American Gazette and Intelligencer of the Island of Saint John 25 May 1789.

Lockerby, W. Earle

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.

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.)

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