riiomhiior That Covers Prince ‘Edward mum

~ ">=1=1\¢iv11~i1~r' rm mo;

- These lots face t-he river-and are ' c er are 1C0 feet wide and

. Qyetercsnd Grafton Streets. which

Liirohiiii» Dew

tstewn Gnrllal, Three Cent's.

Glacier IIIIII‘ Jlnudlnl. Feudal I891.

tiiry Prince Edward lsiwnd. then 1381111811611! St. John. -was surveyed bylhptgin Samuel i-lollsndii the Surveyor-Gene!!!“ of Norm America. Captain Holland divided the Oolony into three counties andwixty-seven townships or Lots, nick-lug provision in each county for s. town. ommon and Royalty: in Queens County sibout ‘three hundred acres of landuwore set =ap1rt for a town and in 1768 thcvsnrveyor of Nova Scotia. Mr. Morris, laid out‘ the streets. squares and town lots, upon a plan that was afterwards. with some few changes followed and carried intto eflfect. as» the land became cleared -and settled.

Charlottetown, which was named avfteftfiuean Charlotte, the wife= of the then’ reigning sovereign of Eng- landrGeorge the Third, is the Capital c! Prince Edward island, and has the distinction of being one of the oldest-cities in Canada. 1t is situated on the Hiilsborough River, on ground which rises from the river in gentle heights to the North, making it a Citfl "beautiful for siLiiailon." The whole town was divided into five hundred lots

84 feet wide, going hack 160 feet. The streets running from the wat- those at right angles across the town are 80 feet except the four between

‘nor’. reduced to 40 feet... There

PKWJQIIflP-QDBPOW

_ ‘should have done. _ The sessions of the House of Aa- " i i ‘ 1

Confederation .

sbmbly were held in a ‘building that lteodkun the corner of Queen and Dcrchester Streets called the “Cross Keys" It was a public house kept by Alexander Richardson who ‘was the clerk of the first assembly. This first parliament oi eighteen members does not seem to have been a very formidable affair. The colony was in its infancy and most of bhe ‘representatives were mere- ly Iwvlceai-flne memlber who left his country home ‘for Uharlotte- town, to attend the sessions oi the House, said that during his vacant hours he was framing a barn for the Governor, and one day he said io His Excellency, “What is the use ofiny being herei‘ You and the Attorney-General write all tbs Acts and we have only to pass them, for we are not able to amend them."

was a Common containing about oiie hundred) Jcregi _ lbeiivveen the

L wider;

{in ma, whdntliis Island became a self-governing Colony, Walter Patterson was appointed its first Governor, and the fol-lowing year he lauded in Charlottetown, and at once began to make arrangements for the Government of the Colony. His Council, which was appointed by the Governor, and confirmed by the Crown, consisted of the Chief Justice, John Duport, the Attorney General, Phillips Callback, John Russel Spence,‘ Thomas Wright and Patrick I-‘urgus.

On the 24th of September, 1770, the Supreme Court held its first sitting; and on the 12th August, 1771 the first Grand Jury assemb~ led in Charlottetown. The ses~ sions of the iGupr/eme Court were held for more thou s. quarter of a century iii l. building that stood on the western corner of Queen and King Streets, Charlottetown.

Up to this tllisl no Public Build- ings had beenisrecbed although Governor Psttorlon» had made strong representations to the Bri- tish Governuisliiifcr s sufficient sum of money tor this purpose as the island's grshbelf-need was Jail, a church slid I Court House. Without time "Government a... only the shadow without the sub- stance." ' '

On m. m. of real-nary. ma, iui Order in Council Twas passed pro viding that s ‘house (if-representa- tives or general assembly of the inhalbltaits of this island be forth- wiiih called. The numlber of the representatives was fixed ‘at eight sen, as in the opinion of the Gov- ernor that many persons could be

found on thelllslid who would make "respectsbls represents "jiViBl."

i‘ The Council, which was then ful- ly constituted, consisted oi nine members. had botli lelislstive, and executive‘ jurildictdoh. ‘When the House of Assembly was in session the Council est ss s ilesislstive body and allowed or rejected the Acts, of the House of Assunhly, just as the Senate of Canada does today with the Acts oi the Com- mons. The members oi the Counc- il were also the advisers of the Governor. who wsl present with them flan-they sat so s privy council .. Tiler Insnfliell of this Council were sot is any wsy ‘es- ' Mitotic to the peepiej They were stag by the Crown and held fort-life." The Legislature held. its first

t

"'51.

BY illilllll

7/‘ 11w‘ "W"

a iiuiiaiiiz ii

SMITH

undone thossztiiill 1* ~|iigq,-.».-..§,i,;,

~ I k . » . P111" i-iizqiipocir dish on ""1 I" FsWlky-mao and at mo session of the Lsgilflgggm n; March of the seine year thvIG/ipg.“ A5. aensbly granted a sum sufficiency;

erect u-nicnumeut to biaznieinory. -

Messrs Cambridge and IBowvcy. two members of the Legislature were appointed to have it executed in London, the device or model to be left to the ' decision of» the artist, and the inscription to be-as follows: "Sacred to the memory of Phillips Cnllbeck.- Esquire, His Majesty's Attorney-General, Lieut- Colonel of Militia and late Speak- er oi the Honourable House of As- sembly oi this Province, by whose order blils Monument is erected ag a testimonyoi their ‘esteem, and ‘a grateful tribute to ~s~ General Benefactor of this Island, who de—

Nllion ia Oiisrlomuiwn in July .4178. islt use hundred ‘years before

4!,‘ we. .. . i

the different time ._..

working on» the bridge Peter's Pond, €3.6— £1.80 . l1‘o 2 gals. nun to ‘the men at

on St

inuoiiio public Public riionay received . . . . ~ .1

7v

-i

isigiicc.) JOHN: weenie. sent. cannons

l-‘roni iliis return it appears z 1691i hours of labour WQQQJIQIQ B11 11M’ the value of ‘one’ ’ hour}. four peace. This would ibe twew , 918111 Nitride‘ five shillings-woo four pence; rigid the amount. pa; in lieu pfgwor with _t_, page“ :'\i|.' of ten pou ds, V‘ 15g" e a. assessment lfor Chsrlottetdiwn For the your 1797 flirty-two poui - u, thirteen shillings and four 118i" i, 0r $140.Q0_ Who will not saytlir former Iisvs were better than the present? Then, when we consider

ings iby the assessors for rum. "to four men at different times iliir. 1118 W911i!!!’ surely "Old times have changed’; old manners gone."

For‘ the better security of the

This closed Mr. Ohappelfs en. tries regarding the building of the Churclinnd it is fair to conclude

was about readiy for occupation .it that time. ,

The Church stood on Queen Square near the site of tbepresent hiwket building. ‘It had a. steeple "11 l-T- ' west end in which was hung .l bell. The- interior had a gallery “‘-1'°B9 011a 011d, and at the oppo~ -=iie_en_d. over the. “Communion Tahlemwesn ii-‘ablets c9151“; “fr L<-i~il'a Prevent-he Ten ihhniapd- msiits amt-tbs .-Apostle's Creed. Thftl‘: ‘Tablets, qhion. were. 5"“,- eiiied to. the Ch-unch hyrthe family of Jlovcrllof‘ hi8 .2‘ - century --'1<1 I uosi-ter sgousrmwqy on the WllLii 0f Bl. vPeul'g..1Rg,g1*'b\agmlJ;

111B RXDenditure oi fourteen shill- Charlottetown, whereithey Mek-

Dlaced when the ‘second Episcopal Church building yggy.plgfu.,‘g‘wj_

Til-a Barracks were built 4.1mm

the same time as the Church on

King Streets that ,.bas.occupied its

early days of the last century.

Til-ere is also an old house You the North aide of ‘Dorcliester Street. it is the firstihouse east from Poiynal Street and was known in the early days ns “Mcl-‘heefs Public , H0188.“ 1t was in this house tliqt the late Bishop Mc- Eachern always put up when be meglehis Pastoral visits to Char- lottetowii.

There is also a ve the,.weet corner of Pownal

ry old house on and

preeent site for the past one hund- ssil yeam. . .-84.,.,_.losepb‘a Convent, although not one 41f the first houses erect- eiiin ._Clisriqttetcwn _in the early days! is one Mgtbqhgildest buildings

tdIll ill. the iflbaent tiine.. it yagjuiit t’! 6i» Andrews inKiasIs Gaimtvciairiiils. who», it. 101111.111- .e_d,(or._ siyiiqegrs. unuiit wanna; msveiitorihsliisiiliw“ "'- "34

acrlber had lately received a sup» ply.oi genuine ‘matter. .

Thomas DesBrisny, Jun. N. B. The poor will be iuoculat‘ ed free of expense. December 24th, 1810.

The Apothecaries Hnli la now owned by Hon. Geo. E. Hughes, who took it over from the late Theophllus DesBriasy, Esquire, forty-seven years ego. .

A petition to the, Governor in Council in "1810 from twenty-seven of the inhabitants shows that Char- lottetown. during the first years of her history, had not made very much headway in street lni= provemsnts. These petitioners

forty|

to-psyibls nopectsao the-Gwen oi- who gavehis his choice, either to come and see him at once on parade or to wait‘ until the next day. when be would receive him at Government House. The Bishop preferred the latter plan and with- drew in the meantime to a decent inn kept by a. Methodist family of the name of Bagnsli. There he re- lved the-visit of General Fann- ing, formerly ‘Governor of the place, ‘of Chief Justice Coiclough and oi the principle psreonsges of the town. The Chief Justice on the following day invited the Bishop. to celebrate Mass in the Court House that hehad cleaned out expressive- ly as the workmen were still in lt. it was there that the Catholics‘ of the tpwu__ and vicinity met" on "Thursday. The Bishop agreed all the more willingly, that on the

"humbly request to he allowed to have the Statute ‘Labor for this year applied to the clearing widening of Weymouth rom the banks of the

iver to the St. Peter's which will thereby effect sage for teams, etc., coming t0

Hillsbci-o Road, s free

previous day he had been obliged tn celebrate the Holy Mysteries in

"*1 a Catholic Tavern in the absence Street o;

more cenvenienit place. in s little exhortstion that be addrer sedthe people in very bad English. he did not forget to insist on the necessity of their thinking soon’ of

The Governor 5am “You w". do Pam‘! m“ 1"“ m“ tweflfif°ixhtg Colony in those early 11ers m. wamitlio lilild now fronting Dundas and put iii tsqgwqggn it noivmce ‘an going from town." Up to this m, cough-um“... 0g s chapel goi- h tusr soon" The m nth re d“ °' 'F°1"““"' o“ °“’““- and rumours of war, in; Laglgh. Efllllllnulc and sis described u. copies, iiivss. placed ._ iwn iun- 11111911140111 froatins- on Wav- vviiioii iio gave a titular Saint- ° ‘ ° e" ' 39W" 11111111811 B1"! Nmiil- *5" - "s - . .1 . - ’ oath Btrest had not been imrrov- Saint Dunstan of Canterbury. and ‘med “A! mo“ u me bu.“ l? “w 46 year“, __ _ lure a. its sitting in 1800 linseed w iegvalrti‘ history 11f Prince“ Ed new and hnuled to G letovién w “d no lmuflngs had been he expressed a hope m“ by u“ “med I ‘m so home and never an Act requiring all male persons B!“ “ma “s M °wa"_ T!“ by 191*” 9' u" u“ "WHQ; erected inthat "section of the town. can and activity of ‘Mr. McEacli- come back to me House's; and h‘ For “m8 reason this Monument between. the ages of sixteen and‘ arracke consist oi two separate The farmers along. the route W8- yiio first Bciiool Brine erected in gm, mi; 5.3mm, would be bum in m! a. good u his word It ‘out was “w” erected but a Emu“ any, mfldm‘ m n“. “mam m ranges of buildings, each 260 feet plied relays of llorselloithat fresh iéiiaiifiiietows called the Natlon- the course of the next spring on a in that regard ' ' ii b t‘ ow feet 1.; 1, bear arms and attend muster and 1h ionsrh. which front each other. "lie were always svsusolcss the al Gobi-Y‘ "i" .}’“‘3;~‘ui ' n!‘ we“ Place of iwi Offered for ti"? 1""- . Yvitlliethsdoililizcfiplziim “P? C. 179:» military exercises in the complain; being divided by a spacious por- huildlils proceeded along u“ ‘ML ernlgéaarngétsxstvfilahézli B‘ i1. ° ‘pas: b dgiiirs-vlggllllberlzlzwqsutgjwllil:

‘m m3 “my ‘mrmd’ “m “s m“ wa but at tiio iiouo of the grave 1“ which 118v 11101116 be enrolled. “de- '1"°Y ‘"8 “aicillmi-‘d i° 4°- Th“ "Mm" "m" “miiivl hi’ W" 11:11"! li owe ‘mule 011 the 6.1‘- b r to enwuriw: 1w in 1161' 111801111191‘! 01 1118 Government was t s k me a 0t Th“ “one Bu" _ This Act also pmvidad mutiny commodcio upwards of three hvun- 10111 511111118 iSchool. and attached ‘posits corner s ‘“ m“ “m” mm‘ ii ' Iworthy intention. Chapels being set in operation, and the ‘r 12ml the xurial round on mm Mam; “we” 1n ca“ o; an mvashmiilred men with their officers. A to the (lonvent is coniparstiv-olyiThis homely wmch ined 01kg]: are oveigywner: rileecssarly, ‘Killian Supreme iCourt established. the ls- :32“; “Charlottetosn when u ghoul“ be made by Rum‘ firs‘ m, handsome colonsde runs along the new but the old building remains‘ 111'“ wfifxw, m“ ‘in ‘in: ‘eiiwemhe: ‘gnaw loud of St. John, and especially ' lighting. a beacon 011119 gum u front of each range, the WhOIQ as originally constructed. _ "‘ ', _‘__ _x"\l,:‘ r 5 1o "'5

was pmced one hump-ed ma v by a nei dwelling diinz t x a e expo ed 80 Charlottetown the [seat of Goveru- ‘went {we . ea“ ago but wmlom ofithe hill on Queen Street, in Ch r. are painted white, and though flat The Rev. James Buipit was the summn . ‘ ‘We m? ch’ Iomamnu (‘mghphi ment, seems to have fallen under m“ ‘in mguou few’ ‘Quay coumhonetnwu‘ and by “flag We gum roofed have a respectable appear- first Methodist Minister stationed U T-h-e following cxtruoi, ‘lpyvvj l . v kfinorelor III evil ways. Twogiarfle “homing deck he], r“! meaning or know “Hat Patterson's Battery and ‘m, once, and in point of accomodation in Charlottetown. He was sent iglliailaiigulii1ogvvlsiil 11!;;'~‘iii1‘1\i:eVl'-n> I " ~ " - ' ‘belonging to Beverly in New 3118' f: the 18M reams’ lace at one two gum, a; Tartar? wharf Nmflare not. surpassed iry any Barracks out by the London Missionary So- und 1812 by Mofingnti ' 1050p“ my n _ _ .1“‘1-R1:1'1i'ed in Charlottetown iiur- "m" i‘ . - m; pm o; m, an oftisersaac Wmmwiflildatfl “i N9'E'-‘..A."‘.°€-‘°°-. will“! wills P1991 “iiiviiiii-"Siiihtifi °"~ m” m‘ octave» Iilesais. nisiiorwrcnoooi-"iciitii " -

-__- . _- happens-hare °i~th9=wifiag¥ °' .. 1,‘ .- ‘$53158 “o” tftoJbenr arms ohms time inblflfliire 111s e '1101i1itni. a 01' Jiily- 1307- 711198 Yew 111i"? will give a very good description reipolld _ on .o c.8118,‘ y h is:

"a I W“ ~ ' "Eff WW1“ "'3 '1' ‘ '1' , appeal. complete Wm, the“, armsstore for provisions, and another the Methodist Society purchased gf tliizqhoslpi-tolity of the-pong}: vitstion m the Mgutenalzt “a:

I _V nil‘, Tfllgiiowliig cor-r s'-r Th“ n o0 of,“ "u" o; and ammumflon accoru’-gv1m m ‘for. ordinance, and a wharf. 1n apiece oi’ land one the north side 0W I i" “lei-Wm “P119313 3° - 110i‘. in ‘iiiis “Y, ° P°'"1°°°° "$111M" P1111111" 9M1" the iriifubiisiiifi otfwCharloi-teigwn directions of o... Mi, e1 front o: the iOWIl 24s f-eet i.. or Richmond isiroot. between {Tytfflgsnrfiistrtiinfiiaii- wflhhoflresptliifii‘: ..‘.‘.’..“;,.‘i°'.‘ 11.1., @115“ xiiiiiircuviiig‘ beck, administrator of the Govern- who were g-equjred to perform t - longtli is (i150 a, military erection) Queen and Pownal Streets and er- u,“ n ‘Funny “gm Wm.“ w‘ I_ Mm _,|.. we (ouqq. ma!" and L015 13111111111111" W1" 8W8 Statute Labour on the streets for .Th|s A“ “'1' “m be m!“ 1" This (wharf which is at the foot of ecteil their first place of worship. I l mg ‘s’! ani - rried oiii his is\en- some idea of the extent of these the yeai’ i797 gives the names of Vol. 1 of tile Revised Statutes of Queen 3L w“ men culled Kgng-s preyioug [Q m1; [hgy held services 1 ‘aflginxeregglnglstggypg: u: tipn ofmlpbt . ~' that some outrages. all themioosgholrlgrs in tlieqttmwil. this Province and the summit o] wharf ' m we 0m ‘Court Home which w“ ‘tam 15.31;?! was: “iranslatgg tram Evedning i‘ wlliilfili! his work 101'

the nii er ours o , nu ems m" on Queen Street (at the I ' ' F 1 1 u, t 1 F h b m I t J d o, _ .

“on we 17m n; November my" Labour to be performed and the Canadian Bunk comer) “ma” wggiioizié.“ (“iillgiuglllgélrefgle eagles: 515:5? Governor ann ng or s ‘Alfieyiellc y e a e u so The wmuw Muwmmd of Tmch two Privateer schoouers belonging zvndgltndoorfe “neg Mm m He“ M ‘umct’ hi" n mm" be dun?!“ m") emcied 1°’ themselves 5°05 -A.s tlic Methodist ‘Society Srew nit was on 'i‘uesday' morninz. ggrilzvivlho lilfdliifiilowtf: 13:11: in‘; to Beverly 1n New Elnslund. 011a of 3 to find Patterson's Batterypr Tu. lava-e ilwriiina iwufsfl inocflmm‘ in Charlottetown this first chapel July ma. 1e12, tiiouwe landed iii. whmfi, ‘Masha, Inoflslon, m them armed with six six-bouncers iur's Wharf which were the prin- 9'7"’ “ u“ m” “y” i 1"” ‘°°' n t 0 Md m Charlottetown, where the Bishop u, m r d c o; our vgyage a

d h E ’ us they found their hearings in the ‘became 1°" “m” ° a“ m a k Wm m“ h w“ peeled b 9 1'9 1111 91' . an t Bother wlthmulempounders ' ° “PM ‘Mimi!’ swim“ 0n 111V“ land of tleir adoption soon began the con rQatlon and land was no g e a ex y 8119M! 11111-951‘ ¢11°°1i°9 * ‘m M"

1:! < 7 6 - - - . v B8- . v - ~ '

and each with a number of swivels ‘g; g ‘if. ' ' ‘ r " the Lieutenant Governor and desir: MugPhQfi a Catholic lnnkeeper had

m Q o dred and fifty years ago. to arise rind build. and ut the beg- cured on m, come,- og Pflncg and ~d b G e l F. l d6 1d d t .. . v . ,

and seventy-five men, arrived in in lgnlng 0g mu 11m century there e y e“ n‘ a“ “'5' c e Q made us breed and p118"? 1-119

3 m I - i h _ Richmond Streets ‘for the P11111059 appear in clerical dress, foresee- Commandum of the gal-freon pm-

Charlottetown. the capital of I-[is n g g The first Public Buildings of any were about sixty houses in C m‘! o‘ erect“: a “us” bundmg. Th“ mg m“ he and ms companion cured mm a to“ and Boldiem m

Majesty's island of ‘St. John. where E Q 3 kind erected in Charlottetown were Lsggetvwgi- T1195“ 1111115?” were" ‘:70 ch“ e1 w" opened m 1835 Bud w“ won“; l" respected, and m“ i; escorfhim and Ms Mme m the

iresided. They immediately made -"‘ the Episcopal Church * an me ere“ “m” m“! s y es’ a 1 "p ‘ the Protestant portion of the cltl- 00m“. n r ~' in the harbour.-

P11111l1 91111119611» E511 43 . 11 - way from the log cabin of Black used by m6 Methodist pggple of t i he“ t m i m 3011 _ . . .

preparations to fire on the town Thomgg wright, Egq 43 Military Barracks. gum M, n“; p151. pom], to the fine u. tt t ‘vim several m 5°“ “"9 “a °n s a ° s 5h All parted gaily. the p001‘ Ab“

. ThOIDBB n 1i i . i l Hfllliiflil in c '° ° °""' °‘ m“ e"".“°'.d‘“"¥ °°““““" ‘i Beuhiell. Mt on the as" ""11

at the sometime their Command es rsey, Esq 1.4 in a speech in the House of dwelling of Colone provmlents and addmo“ “um would ha for “my! merely an object _ t u“ caesium o‘ h“

e" Wm, armed puma,’ landed James Curtis, Esq 48 Assembly: in 1780, Governor Fan- Q??? wit?“ IV“: ]'"“’.'1w“g1(fet11'3_ me Dream" brick chufcfwas er. of ‘curiosity without provoking shyffieglianomimlo; was the on], m;

. . in order toupreserve the sytflttgflfgthir E “m; “m; qgjnce the last meeting at; 311$; a hotuisesp cage m umrfit Baud m4“; y kind of insolence. The result‘ p ov- who med “M, on seem; himself

town from being burnedcl deterin- 0mm" Bum: 11° ' sq ‘s of the (leneral Assembly l hay; "(ggi-Qood “m; 3m‘... long 5mm mum ' in n ‘I'D more m Chap 9d 1;1c11t1:es1111-V°'11°9il1‘151‘1 1P 1 9-“ separated from. his Bishop and his ined to face them singly. Upon Capt Mmnwuryng’ ’ 43 purchased a house belonging to into decay or were destroyed by] t“ m“ d “gm I Canada c“ u ' friends.’

their isudins 111°? made mo a nris< d 1.4 Captain Burns. a part of which i "Ye-I. - . ‘m’ °‘"‘ 5"‘ m” Y “ ' 0i the three 1W1“ rwlwed 111 ill! 1x12 the first Court House

oner and instantly conveyed me on arm‘?! Jilalyl an 32 have appropriated as a Cha el fo M“? “t m“ h°“"°5 "t this “r1” t“ m“ "Othqnfloa Ha“ 0n u" 51' 3°11“: ' 'I51“'“‘1' "m “"1 "m 1" was erocted- on the Western Cor-