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     The first approximate!!! defin- 
     
     ite date in the history of Canada is 
     
     July, 1534, Johan Jacques Cartier 
     
     sighted and‘ touched the shores of 
     
     what is now Prince Edward Island. 
     
     The Island received its present name 
     
     from Edward, Duh of Kent, father 
     
     of the then reigning Queen Victoria; 
     
     previously the Island was called 
     
     Isle St. Jean. French history is 
     
    

    
     _ interwoven with the history of 
     
     Prince. Edward. Island,. and. in 
     
     August of this year a notable cele- 
     
     bration .commemorating Jacques 
     
     Cartiefs arrival on these shores 
     
     four hundred years ago took place 
     
     in Charlottetown, the Capital City. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Previous to the landing of‘ the 
     
     French, Prince Edward Island ‘was 
     
     inhabited only by Indians, who had 
     
     made no efiort to cultivate the soil, 
     
     but lived by the products of forest, 
     
     river and stream. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The basic stock of the Island 
     
     was Scotch, English, Irish and 
     
     Acadian French, and this was aug_- 
     
     mented in the period o! the Revolu- 
     
     tionary War by immigrants Irom 
     
     New England who remained loyal to 
     
     Great Britain. Later immigration 
     
     changed the stock but little, 
     
    
   
   
    
     0n this Island the pioneer 
     
     spirit is the background against 
     
     which is silhouetted generations o! 
     
     sturdy, successful farmers who have 
     
     undergone handicaps and privations 
     
     in by-gone days to pass to the pres- 
     
     ent generation a land rich in agri- 
     
     cultural possessions. ~ 
     
    
   
   
    
     Prince Edward Island is about 
     
     one hundred and forty-five miles in 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
             
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
       
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
     HON. GEORGE D. DeBLOIS 
     
     Lieutenant Governor o! P. E. L 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
            
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     while in 1891, at its peak, it number. = .1.‘ 
     
     ed 109,087. The very nature of the 
     
     Island, particularly in winter when, 
     
     previous to the modern transporta- 
     
     tion facilities, there was no method 
     
     of connection with the mainland. 
     
     precipitated a condition wherein 
     
     “the survival of the fittest” was 
     
     natural law; consequently the stock 
     
     of Prince Edward Island today has 
     
     a background of rugged men pos- 
     
     sessing sterling qualities for hard 
     
     work and courageous living. 
     
    
   
   
    
     To these men who worked and 
     
     toiled in the past, giving of their 
     
     best for the progressive develop- 
     
     ment of Prince Edward Island, we 
     
     owe a deep debt of gratitude, for 
     
     without their wisdom, courage and 
     
     enterprise, our fair Province of 
     
     today could never have materialized. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Coal Merchants. 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
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