HONOURAILE DAVdD LA I RD,

Born in New Glasgow. Prince Edward Jelsnd in 1888,1011 of the Honourable Alexander Laird. He first entered the Colonial Legisla- ture alaLiberal- member tic-r Belfast District M1871. His ability was so Quickly recognised that within two years he was selected by i_iii|_ Government as one o1 the two diele- gatcs to open negotiations withthe Government of Canada for the en- trance ‘of-the loll/ad Colony into Confederation. The terms offer- ed were submitted to the People at a general election when die Gov- ern-ment was defeated on til-e sole quietion of "Better Terms." lion. J, C. iPope who came into. power turrietl through successfully negoti- ations for better financial terms of union and on the first day ofnluiy A. D, 1873, Prince Edward lsluiltl tbeoame a Province of Canada.

Mr. Laird, with ills colleague. Hon. Pcicr Sinclulmw-arii the first members of the Dominion Parlia- ment elected for Queen's County.

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A! Dine of the first in framing the contract 0f Confederation with Canada, Minister of the Interior and first Governor or the NQu-h- west Territories, the late Honour; able David Laird is entitled no high rank among the Builders of Con.

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rlt Incas not fallen to the lo tot any other son of Prince Edward iltslspd to undertake and successfully ac- wmlilish a work of sucii national importance.

Honourable James Cooledge ope P. C.

Born at Iledcttiie, Plillci) Edwflm island ‘lii 1820. soil of

30501111 P000. he wus one of the

when ihc gillil discovcrics lii Calif- oriiiu were tittrtit-tliig adventurous spirits fitlul all parts 0i’ the wold“

.lii curly maiilititiil he cntcrctil upoii u mcrciiiitiltl mil-tit“; m. march. am- Blllllbiilltltu- and owner, lii which

When the six lhrlatid members ar- rived in Ottawa they were hound by no political ties to any Domin- - ion Party. The Caundiuii (liuvern- ‘meat was composed oi‘ Liberals and Conservatives chosen equally from the two great iiisforit: Parties icr Canada. it was an opeu ques- tion bow the lslaittl meniibers would align themselves. They ‘were not. given long to decide. Parliament was in turmoil. Tho Government ietl by Sir Joiiu Mitc- dionaltL was in dire peril facing a resolution of wuiit of confidence oii acharge of having accepted politi- cal contributions from a group of financiers who that! in view n coil- trtwt with the (ioveriiment i0 build a railway tto connect the railways

of Canada with tile -Pacific ‘COiISLl

The situatiioil is named in history "The Pacific Scandal."

Of the island members Mr. Laird first declared ills position in a speech of marked eloquence and power from the condensed report of which this shin-fl extract is luk-

rein:

"Upon i-he decision that ls given op, this question" he said "will ile- pend the fuiure oi‘ the country; its intellectual progress, its political miorality and, more than all the ln- tegrity of its iStntesmcii."

Two tiays after the delivery of this epoch-making speeoh- the Cov- ernrnent of Sir John Macdouaid re- signed anti the new Government ledby Alexander ‘McKenzie was in power with Mr. Laird as one. of its lvliinisters. Unknown and undis- tinguished outside or his native island, except for the part he took in t-he negotiations preliminary to Confederation, so swiftly did the wheel of fortune turn that Within -two weeks nftsr taking his sent in the House of Comrmotns, he was given the portfolio of the newly or- ganised Department of the Hnterior charged with the organisation and administration‘ of the vast territor- ies but recenitly governed and con- trolled by ‘the l-Ititlsoiif-s Buy 00-m- pany.

Alter three years in that Depart- trnent Mr. Laird was appointed the first Talents/mint Governor and ln- dian Commissioner over the Norah- west Territories, offices which he filled until 1881.

As Lieutenant Governor he was assisted by a Council lppolirted by the Crowri with powers equivalent to those conferred unto-n a Gover- uor-of a Crown Colony. '

The Terriflory to ‘be atlmiuister- ed contained more than. twice the area-of all the‘ Canadian ‘Provinces combined.

The setting up and- administra- tion lot a new Government over a region s0 vast was a work oi the first magnitude. ' he settlement with various l-ndian -ri-bcs was suc- cessfully accomplished throughout all the rlegion , the-n required for coio izaiioii. lnplate-r» years 1899 no 1 0 during his second term of the office of iindian Commissioner the last of the great. treaties with tin.- lndiaus was concluded. When Mr. Laird's term of office had ex- pired there was established on a. firm basis peace, order and E0011 Government thougluctiit the terri- tories which he had organized anti governed throughout eight critical and eventful years.

In 1905 at the celebration in Rei glue oi‘ the t-stulblishmeiit oi‘ the Provinces of Alberta and Saskat- chewan which Mr. Laird attsndetl as iffiuest of honor, his work was thus summed -up and valued "he well and truly laid the ficuiidailona torqrganiaed Government within the tefliborles, His iiit- mid work

die uchicvctl such success that he .was soon recognized as one of ills Joromosl lllPll oi‘ the Colony. llc eu- |teretl polltlcitl lifc in 1857 us mem- |llcr for lletlequt: District iii the ‘HD1151! of Assembly. After lioltliilg a

ysctit iil the lixecutlve (iouucil

criimeut passed the Ralway Bill iii soiist-queuce of which they mct dc- ,_i'cut_

'i‘lie llaythorileLnlrtl Government

criimciit at Ottawa for into tilt.- anti ou their‘ rcttiru secured u dis- solution tll‘ Purlliimcilt oii the tpics- coiisequeiice uf which they iiiei iii-- Mr. Pope who hzltl luiig been aii advocate of (Jniiitltltlratiun uu lust terms, opposed solely mi this grounds that the terms offered lvtare insufficient. to meet. ‘the needs of the island, and to enable it tti curry on its lociil affairs without resort-

tlic cli-ctioii, pioceetlcti to (liiawii, and secured the better terms ivliicil lie llad advocated. Confederation resolutions were pussctl by both lltiiises, and on ilic 1st tiny of .lilly/1873 this lslziutl be- came a Canadian Province. ilir.

the Hoii..

company who purclmscil (lii! Brig Filmy. llliil stiilctl aroiiiitl “The Horn" to Still Francisco lll 1849 -

then came into office, tin i873 tlicy opened negotiations with tile titiv- i teiitrzuicil . (iuuutliaii (ftliifederttllilii. "

iiig t0 direct. taxation. lie csrrietl '

Promptly the »

ihrtliigli two successive ndmiiiistru- ' tluus llii became lender of the (iov- . crilmcnt iu 1X65. During ills second ' udmiiiisirutltlii 1870 to i872 his (ltlv- "

Pope therefore resigned his 1108mm! '

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of Lender oi‘ the Government to be elected n member for Prince County in the Dominion Parliament. When the six newly elected meiu- bers arrived iii Ottawa they ‘fouiltl the Matzllmiultl Government on the verge oi defeat over the so-cnlleti Pacific Scandal. Mi‘, Pope stood by his falling leader and shared iii ills defeat. He did not. offer for rc-elcc- tion. For a short time he re-entercd

the resignation of Ilollflllrillilfi David lrtlrd in 1870 to accept the Governorsllip of the Northwest Territories lie was elected by a large majority to fill the V1160!" seat. Two years later he was 115111" successful at the general election when the MacKeilzio Government was dcefutetl. Ou the 19th of ()ctob- er 1878 he was sworn a riicmber oi‘ the Privy COllllCll with the pori- folio of Minister of Murine uutl Fisheries which he held llfilll 1392- when failing health obliged him to retire from all political activities. During his long period ‘ofptihlic service be proved himself u. states- mun great alike in conception and psrforulauce.‘ With an indomitable will that often overbore all fac- tiouii opposition, he also [iossessetl that even rarer -gift_ of leadership that drew and kept around lilfllyll. group of sympathetic and ‘taleiitctl men through whose cooperation he was able to curry through KY0!"- publio measures. that would other- wise have been impossible.

His name will go down iii history as the island Statesman who finally consummated the Union of Prince Edward island with the Dominion. and_iu Provincial ‘affairs the coil- atrtictlnu of the Railway. the stilli- tion of the land problem. ailtl the reform ill’ tho coiuazc Willi ""3 m1‘ option of the decimal system.

Tlliotigii the formative pro-cou- federuiiou period his was the dom- inating mind lii public affairs. ltle measured with almost prophetic vision vtheutdvantuges uud disad- vantages that Confederation would

a 1.115351» for those who iiliiy occupy hi; fines-s‘ of earthly‘ tioiuiuiou." . \ . . _»

bring to tho Colony. ' 1n the wide-far vicw he realized

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Conf

ederation Medals

. I . _ p’ rattan-latent" ma. ' lethal beln 1 laud to we million e time wit‘!

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the Provincial Assembly. Then on.

Celebrated ]uly 1.

Memorials on Parliament Hill, Ottawa. of those Great Figt-ures iriCanadian Life Whose Efforts Have Resulted in the United Canada, the Sixtieth Anni- versary of whose Birth will be

that it was inevitable iu tllt: iuier-. est of national iiilliy. At tho sdmoj time, lie in atlivaut-c of his unlit-m- poraries saw the ilecessiiy for. future adjustment of the terms of Union to meet the changing pi-oviil

and pointed out the remedy.

" So long tuvcournge and supreme devotion of greuttalents to public service ore valued iii our land the name of James Collutige Pope will be held iii Honour and gratciul rent- embraucc,

The Honourable John Hamilton

Gray. C. M. G.

being born at Cliilrlottcitlwu ill the your 1811. His father had emigrat- ed to Virginia. anti hail settled there; but ut the conclusion of the revolutionary war withdrew from there and took refuge iu Prince Eti- ward ‘island, where his grandfather litid, in consideration of distinguish- cd services to King George the Third, obtained u grant of lituti."

At an curly ago. John Hamilton Gray went to Euglaild and entered the British Army, serving his King and country-as itu officer in the Seventh Dragoon‘ Guards, fertile full term‘ oi’. twenty-one years. A large part of'tliis exteudctl ierni was spent in India and in South- Afrlcu. Hit-t iiumc was houourtlbly mentioned for public services in the field, and be woii a medal for spec- ial services tli: the Cape oi‘ Good Hope, besides being highly t-tiiilpli- mentetl by his official superiors on the prudence uud good judgment. ho displayed us Prtlsitlent 0f a Court of Eaqhiry tlrgaulzedfor iho pur-

ciul ueetls which time would bring,» l

pose oi‘ grunting compensation to the sufferers in the border wars. In 1852 ho withdrew from the army us a. Captain oii half-pay and returned to his native town. During the (Yilmean War he volunteered to join the staff of his father-iri-iaw,

[Sir John iPenucfeiher, at Malta, cu

route to the crlmca, but. before he ihud reached the scene of action .S8btisih1p0l bail cwpitulatetl uud the lwur was over. ‘Subsequently he as» sisted Sir John as Aide-de-Camp iii the formation of a force of English ilVlilitia. But soon nf-ter he returned tto his Island home and entered the ipolitlcal arena.

iu- 1859 lie was elected a member

Colonel John l-lumiltou Cray waszvf 111° Hlmse "Y Assembly. an}! $001M a native of Prince Edward island,“ 1811111115 D111"! 1h "H! ("BCHBBIOHQ Oil

‘the day. He became leader of the jtiovtrrnmeut in 1862, Hon. Edward ,l’uliucr. and William Henry Pope, itwo other "Fathers of ‘Confeder- ili.l()ll,"ll6lH,'{ illfimlififil 0|‘ this tid- ministration. The land question was illii ull important issue at this time. l-lou. John Ilamiltoii (liay was chosen President oi‘ the Confer- Ience which was convened at [Char- ‘liltllJlOWH in 1864 for the purpose oi’ iiilSCllilSlllg n Iinieu of the threc Maritime Provinces; but which sull- sequeutly developed into a. Collier- ence on the larger question of the Union of the British Colonies lu North America, resulting in the lmore important Conference held a littlejatcr at Quebec. The lltliiour- able Colonel was also a prominent member of this latter Conference. ‘Colonel Gray was for inaiiy years head of the militia iorcc lu his native province. Ho was ll. strict tliscipllnariail autl punctual almost

married, and one daughter llirsgntes

,Art_emas Lord. is still living in Char-

doiteiowu.

Hon. T. Heath Haviland

llcu. 7i‘. Heath Huvilaud was borii at Charlottetown. Prince Ed- wurtl Island, on the 13th day of November 1822. His father was the l-icn. Thomas If. IlnvilalitL- for many years one of the most i110!!!" iueiit politicians and officials on the Island. The subject of this sketch received part of his edlllifii-iml l" il-irusseis, and returning to his |iiative laud he studied law in the llaw office of the late Judge iPeters, Hind was admitted to the bar on the list of July 1845, lii 1846 lie was ‘elected a member of the House of Assembly, for Georgetown, which ieleciorai district lie continuously uruprescnteti till 1876. tIu 1859 he be- came a member of the Government and sat at the Executive Council Board until 1862, again 1865, again from 1866 to i867. natl again from September 1870 uutil- April 1872. While a. member of the Executive Council. he held the important office of Colonial Secretory, except that during 1865 he was Solicitor General. in 1802 he was chosen Speaker of the House of Assembly but resigned that office in the" fol- lowing year, He acted as leader of the Opposition from 1887 until the Igeneral elections of 1870.

Having bccu o. member of the Qucbot: Conference. he continued to be a consistent. unionist and took a letttllng part in tile discuss- ions, which led to the union of Prince Edward island with the lother Provinces of Canada iii 1873,

who ‘secured the

Terms." When in April 1873, the Liberal Conservative Party re- turned to power iu this Provltlce. Mr. Haviiand once more entered the Government, iii which he ‘held the office of Provincial Secretary until 1876. Dual representation not having then been abolished he was

alled to the Canadian Senate upon Khe administration of the province into? the Union and continued a Sen- ator until the 14th July. 1879, when hr resigned to accept the office oi ‘Lieutenant Governor of the Prov-

nee.

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Hon. Andrew Archibald McDonald

The subject of this sketch was Lieutenant Governor of his native province from 1884 to 1889 and sub- sequently held a seat in the Canad- ian Senate.

He was-born at Brundeueil Point. King's County, Prince Edward 1s- iaud, February 14, 1829, being the eldest sou of Hugh and Catherine McDonald, uati-vss of. lnverness- shire, Scotland. .Hii-i grandfather

Andrew MacDonald, of a highly dis-

tinguished scottish family came to this island in 1805, where- he pur~ chased 10,000'acres of land includ- ing Panmure island at the entrance to Georgetown Harbour. Here he located and at. ‘once embarked in mercantile business, exporting tim- ber and building ships to be sold in the British markets.

lHis son Hugh, father of the sub- ject of this sketch, inherited the Panmure Island I sidence and pro- perty. He was a prominent man in the public life and ‘affairs of the Colony. As soon as Catholic disabili-

m a mum He was three Umesnnd he was oiic of the three dale-ties were removemhwwas defied“ "llettermember of the Assembly, appointed

PRIME MINISTERS SINCE CONFEDliRAlTlON

v the celebration of

' "W111"? 01' U19 Eliélilfiifiiili (ieiitury aydu.

Tilil illlNllllEll YEARS

Nova. Scotia GlaiTm-s To ‘Have Had Agent In London In Middle Eighteenth Century- Lord Strathcona And His “Lighthouse”

LONDON. June 29.— it may be‘ inappropriate, lu couusctlou wlth,miuiou Government. emigration the Diamondtageuis were stationed up and down Jubilee of the (Jonfederaiiou ofltiie British isles, tiin chief agent Canada to give some account ofltbe init- W. it. Dlxuii, rhsitiiug in the growth of Canadian represent"London. 'i‘llt-_l' were nil pfgquca]. atioii iii London. Snell reprcseiit-‘ly independent of tmi- another, and

A year after Confederation Do-

' atiou dates back a Jung willie be-‘reporteti direct to tlit- Department. _ fore the first Dominion Day iiii867iof Agriculture.

A more inwards —~i=ilthough lii its earliest stages ibcentrailsittioii was made in 1874, was naturally restricted to the tilll- Wllfill idtiwurtl .](’l|i(illt4~-ll|6‘.ll M, P. er portions of (fuiiittia. Nova for liuiitieu iiiltl author of n once Scutia trlaims to have bet-ii direct- popitlur iiovcl “(Max's f3i1by".__w'a5 lY Pellrcsciited iii Loiititiii in ilic appointed Agent-general for Can- Jcnkiiis was siuccceded by by Joseph Mei/yor- Tiiis 200d mtuttho lluii. w. Aiiiittfiti, formerly a lwd several successors. but wheiii/incnltlei- of tlic Neva Scotiau Gov- sr their duties were well ticfliietl OI':Pl‘[|I'fl(‘ll[,

their responsibilities ttlwurils Novui The first lllgll Commissioner Scotia very definite is tlpeii ii! proper came along in 1880, in the doubt. New ilriini-lwltzk also iiatllpersoii oi‘ Sir Alexander Gait. With someone acting here for lier iit ail~lliiili cinne J. (l. tfnimor, who 1n a

"W5! 11B 91111)’ 11 UMB- ' ifew iunntlie time wart appointed We get on iu firmer historical permanent Secretary in the High ground wlicii we consider the time (Jommisslmiefs tlfiicte; llrl m.

1115i lifter‘ the Battle n!‘ Wuterlommaiiicd iii that position until well "1 With-u your after Wutcrltiti- ‘into Lord sirrithooiinu. time when William llalton was itppuliittul-he resigned to jail, it weufkuown Agent for the Upper Cuuudu inidiri". firm iii‘ London sttlckllrokers n. thc King's warrant. Earlier stlillpusliitlil lita still holds. Sir A193. in 1812, Nuihuiilel Acheson wits ap-‘andefs duties liiul ileieu fairly well pointed i0 uct for Lower (JauailnJdcfiiit-d iii ildVéilltitt. llcsitles look- Seemiugly the liiic oi‘ succession lug aiit-r matters of trade and com- wits often lnterruptcd, and it is not met-cc iiti was expcizteti to give until we arrive at the time of (itui- special attention l0 emigration. in federation that we are able to se- this coilncction it is worth recall- cure an unbroken record of Caua- ing that the Canadian Pacific Rail-

ii- way iii those days was only in course of construction, and immi- grants had to go through the Unit- etl States. 'l‘hcre was iio U. S. quota then-din- froin it-“anti many would-bu inlmigrsutst into Canada- were lnierceptctl en route.

Iipoii Sir Alexander (ialfs resig- iiuiiou in 1881i. Sir (‘diaries Tup- per wits appointed, and held office for thirteen years, with one or two brcuktt when hc rciaiued his title but. rei-eivr-tl no salary. Then, in 1806, hngnii the long reign in'Vic- torla Strt-t-i 0i’ Lord Stratbcona, which cutli-d only with his death, at tlic ugt- of 92, a fcw months be- fore the war broke out. Sirzithcoilil true tlCVOiCtl, in a. (ltliiblc stausti, to the dingy 01d suite ill‘ offices which, until the new tiiiiiildu ilousc lii Trafalgar Square was oilenod by the King.

a Justice of the Pesceand Collector of Customs and Excise ‘for the diz- trict of Threellivcrs. At i1 later period he held the office of High Sheriff of the Province lie tiicti in November 1857. leaving ll iltultly of three sons and one daughteiy

The eldest of the sons "was And- rew Archibnld, who received his education in the public schools and from u. private tutor. At the age of fifteen he entered the store just opened at Georgetown by a cousin and was soon taken as a partner. On his cousin's death in 185i, he bought his share and '.‘0ili.|lll.l<3tl the business taking iu his iwo wiliiitlrs, Archibald J. nutl Augustliit- (f. at partners.

Ill 1853 Andrew A. liaclitluultl was elected to rcprt-sclit ijcurgtr

Lord _

town district iii illi: liousc oi‘ As- sembly, holding the seat tiiitil 1860. In 1863 he was elected u. member of the Legislative Council, where ht- held a seat until 1873. when lie was appointed Post Master General of the Province. tl-ie was a member oi‘ the Executive Council from i867 to 187-1, and again from 1872 until 1873, when the island joined the Dominion,

ln 1864 he was one of the delega- tion ln attendance at the Charlotte- town Conference, where the ques- tion of Confederation was first dis- cussed. A little later he served us a delegate at the Quebec Cuufercilcc, where the first terms of Coilieder- ation were forr/ plated, and these, with some few modifications form the basis of the Constitution of the Dominion of Canada.

‘In 1884 Hon. A. A. lliutzlioiltilti received the appointment of Lieu- tenant Governor of the Province and occupied that position tiiitil September 1889, A vacancy occu- ring in the Island representation in the Senate of Canada occasioned by the death of Senator Haythorne. be received an appointment to that body in May 11, 1891, a position which he held up to the time of his death, which occurred at Ottawa on the 21st of March, 1912.