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Peake, Brecken fonds

  • CA PCA Acc2881
  • Fonds
  • 1784-1870

This fonds consists primarily of the business records and associated materials of the Brecken and Peake families of Prince Edward Island. The documents cover the time period 1784 to 1870 although most of the material dates from 1840 on. The Peake business began in 1824 and after 1830 seems to have been connected to the Brecken firm. Some records in the early 1830's may belong to either firm. Also included are some papers of a personal nature. The material has been partially sorted and boxed and is divided into two series: Brecken papers and Peake papers.

Brecken (Family)

Independent Boards and Commissions fonds

  • CA PCA RG34
  • Fonds
  • 1785-1986

This fonds includes commission meeting minutes, correspondence, administrative records, financial records, photographs, negatives and plans dating from 1785 to 1986. The fonds divides into the following 17 series: Commissioners for assessment on licensed retailers of spirituous liquors, Committee for the erection of public buildings, Commissioners of the Poor House, Trustees of the Lunatic Asylum, Confederation Conference Golden Jubilee 1914, Charles Dalton Sanatorium Commission, Prince Edward Island Development Commission, Diamond Jubilee of Confederation 1927, Confederation Celebration 1864-1939, Prince Edward Island Advisory Reconstruction Committee, Provincial Health Planning Commission, Provincial Planning Board, Prince Edward Island 1964 Centennial Committee, Prince Edward Island Centennial Commission (1967), Prince Edward Island 1973 Centennial Commission, the Old Age Pension Commission, and Compensation Review Commission. Each series has been decribed as a separate collection.

Series have been arranged chronologically by date of earliest records for each Commission, except Series 17: Old Age Pension Commission which was added to the fonds in April 1996.

Prince Edward Island. Legislative Assembly

John Townshend fonds : [1786]

  • CA PCA Acc3130
  • Fonds
  • 1786

The fonds consists of a transcript of journal entries written by John Townshend on his travels from Nantucket, Massachusetts, to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. This journey began on 4 July 1786 and concluded on 24 August that same year. These entries record stops made in Halifax, Dartmouth, and Shelburn in NS, and New London, Park Corner, Malpeque, and Charlottetown in PEI. At all of these stops, Townshend initiated large public meetings that were religious in nature, and laments about the lack of proper places to worship. John spent considerable time with his brother James (1739-1806) in PEI, and also mentions meeting John Cambridge, Benjamin Chappell, as well as with PEI's Governor.

Townshend, John

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

MacMillan, Alexander (Family)

Farquhar Campbell family (Lot 54) fonds

  • CA PCA Acc4568
  • Fonds
  • 1788-1967

This fonds consists of deeds, wills and estate papers, and maps relating to the Campbell land in Lot 54 from 1788 to 1967.

Campbell, Farquhar (Family)

Legislative Council of Prince Edward Island fonds

  • CA PCA RG2
  • Fonds
  • 1789-1893

This fonds consists records pertaining to the Legislative Council of Prince Edward Island. Included in the fonds are Journals of the Legislative Council which span the years 1817 through 1893, and record the meetings and some of the discussions of the Legislative Council members, Council orders, committee reports, and speeches from the throne on the opening of the Legislative Assembly. Documents pertaining to elections of members to the Legislative Council form a series of this fonds and include writs calling for elections, lists of electors eligible to vote for Councillors, and poll books which record candidates' and voters names and votes cast. These records are for various years and various polling and electoral districts. Some miscellaneous items pertaining to elections and appointments to the Legislative Council are included in the election series. The fonds includes a Legislative Council order book for the period 1839 to 1854, which is an agenda of sorts, recording petitions read and discussed in Legislative Council, as well as bills and other matters of discussion slated for debate by members. Also included in the fonds is a series of the debates and proceedings of the Legislative Council which are detailed notes of the discussions of the Council members concerning, largely, legislation of the Province. Also included in the fonds is a series of petitions dated 1879 received from individuals or parties directed to the Legislative Council regarding public buildings and services. A miscellaneous series includes such documents as some early appointments, extracts from Executive Council minutes, Legislative Council journals, an address to the Queen re the 1818 Treaty and some telegrams (1872-1873) from the Legislative Council regarding administrative matters.

Prince Edward Island. Legislative Council

Old Protestant Cemetery committee fonds

  • CA PCA Acc2942
  • Fonds
  • 1790-1981

The fonds contains records, minutes, invoices, short essays and newspaper clippings all relating to the Old Protestant Cemetery Committee, responsible for the upkeep of the Elm Avenue cemetery. Minute books and correspondence between 1916 and 1981 relay the work undertaken by the committee for the preservation of the cemetery.

Old Protestant Cemetery Committee

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

Kirk of St. James Presbyterian church fonds : [1790-1975]

  • CA PCA Acc3016
  • Fonds
  • 1790-1975

The fonds consists of the registered baptisms for 1849-1961, marriages for 1850-1865, 1885-1891, 1930-1975, and burials for 1930-1975. Also included are the St. James Church annual reports for 1885-1901, 1903-1905, 1912-1915, 1917-1946. These reports consist of the minutes of annual meetings, financial statements, and reports of various societies such as the Women's Missionary Society and Ladies Aid Report. The fonds also contains the minutes of the annual meeting for 1872 as well as a list of subscriptions to the church for that year.

St. James' Church (Charlottetown, P.E.I.)

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.

Brehaut, Mary (Cornfoot)

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