McKaig family fonds

• CA PCA Acc4371
• collection
• 1831-1889

The fonds consists of 12 documents of the McKaig family and 3 letters from Angus MacNeill MacLeod (1859-1866) re his life in New York to his brother Donald in P.E.I. The McKaig letters are mostly from family and friends in Scotland and Halifax an...

McKaig, John (Family)

Petitions, resolutions, and addresses of the Legislative Assembly and Council of PEI re free trade, land issues, legislative and judicial system, etc.

• CA PCA Acc4283
• collection
• 1841-1842

The fonds consists of several despatches, with enclosures, from Governors- General Fitzroy and Huntley to Lords Russell and Stanley respectively from May 1841 to July 1842, and acknowledgments and responses by the British Government. The enclosure...

Tenant, landlord, and the new middle class: settlement, society, and economy in early Prince Edward Island, 1798-1848 / by Matthew Hatvany

• CA PCA Acc4556
• collection
• 1997

This thesis argues that the settlement and socio-economic developmental patterns of early Prince Edward Island were not unique because of the existence of a proprietary land tenure system but markedly similar to patterns established elsewhere in n...

Hatvany, Matthew G.