Showing 1149 results

Archival description
Only top-level descriptions Public Archives and Records Office of Prince Edward Island
Print preview View:

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.

Clark, Winifred

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.

Bowness, E. W.

Wright family Bible fonds

  • CA PCA Acc4157
  • Fonds
  • 1702-1877, [ca. 1990]

This fonds consists of a Bible containing a volume of Psalms published in London in 1702. The Old and New Testaments are dated 1708 and were probably published in Amsterdam. The genealogical information concerns the Cambridge and Wright families. Photocopies from Christ's Hospital London relate to the admission of Thomas Wright.

Wright (family)

Owen family fonds

  • CA PCA Acc3744
  • Fonds
  • 1745-1916, Predominant 1850-1900

The fonds consists of personal, official, and business correspondence and other papers of three generations of the Owen family, namely Thomas, Lemuel Cambridge, and William E. These include records of enterprises in which these gentlemen were involved including the postal service, various banks, and steamship companies as well as papers from Lemuel Cambridge Owen's time in political office. The largest portion of the fonds is comprised of the business correspondence and other papers of the firm of Welsh and Owen of Charlottetown. There are also a few documents which relate to Samuel Holland and to the Cambridge family as well as some miscellaneous material and memorabilia.

Item lists, primarily in chronological order were prepared for this collection when it was first received and the order does not fall completely within the parameters of the series identified for description. However, listings of item numbers contained within each series are included in the series descriptions. The fonds is comprised of the following nine series:

  1. Holland family papers
  2. Thomas Owen papers
  3. L. C. Owen papers
  4. William E. Owen papers
  5. Post Office records
  6. Welsh and Owen business papers
  7. Plans
  8. Owen/Welsh family memorabilia
  9. Miscellaneous collected items

Owen (family)

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.

Sketch of the Island of St. Johns in the Gulf of St. Lawrence [and Remarks thereon] : [1762]

  • CA PCA Acc4615
  • Fonds
  • [1762]

This fonds consists of a map and the accompanying Remarks relative to the sketch of St. Johns... which were prepared by an officer who had "run over " the Island in 1762 in a whale boat with a French pilot and thirty men by order of the "General" (possibly Hardwicke). The survey concentrated on the sites of the former French settlements and their prospects for settlement by the English. It remarked positively concerning the rich meadows and cleared lands and based future prosperity on agriculture and fishing. The map is also accompanied by a 3p. typed transcript of the Remarks, prepared by the donor.

The author of the map and remarks is anonymous.

Unknown

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

Lillian M. Duchemin fonds

  • CA PCA Acc3860
  • Fonds
  • 1767, 1860, 1867, 1920-1986

The fonds is divided into 4 series: scrapbooks, organizational papers, photographs and personal and Duchemin family materials.

Duchemin, Lillian

Frank MacKinnon fonds

  • CA PCA Acc4449
  • Fonds
  • 1769-1773, 1906-1907, 1941-1995

The fonds consists of copies of Dr. MacKinnon's books, theses, articles, reviews and speeches and the research and subject files which he used to produce these writings. It also contains administrative records, minutes, correspondence, and project files of the Fathers of Confederation Memorial Citizens Foundation and its successor body the Fathers of Confederation Memorial Buildings Trust, as well as annual reports, correspondence, and miscellany relating to Prince of Wales College. The latter records are primarily concerned with the College's achievment of degree-granting status, the proposed development plan for the College and the controversy which ended in the amalgamation of Prince of Wales with St. Dunstan's University to become the University of Prince Edward Island. Photographs in the fonds relate primarily to the Memorial Buildings and Prince of Wales College.

The records have been arranged in the following series:

  1. Writings
  2. Research and subject files
  3. Fathers of Confederation Memorial Citizens Foundation/Fathers of Confederation Memorial Buildings Trust records
  4. Photographs
  5. Prince of Wales College records

MacKinnon, Frank

P.E.I. Executive Council fonds

  • CA PCA RG5
  • Fonds
  • 1770-2002

The fonds consists of the following series of textual and audio material:

Series 1 - Minutes and Orders-in-council
Series 2 - Oaths of Office and Allegiance
Series 3 - Agenda Books
Series 4 - Petitions
Series 5 - Warrants of Survey and Reports
Series 6 - Licenses of Occupation
Series 7 - Letter Books
Series 8 - Memoranda
Series 9 - Miscellaneous
Series 10 - Council of Maritime Premiers
Series 11 - Development Plan audiotapes

Prince Edward Island. Executive Council

Results 1 to 10 of 1149