The progress and prospects of Prince Edward Island written during the leisure of a visit in 1861: a sketch intended to supply information upon which enquiring emigrants may rely, and actual settlers adopt as the basis of a wider knowledge of their beautiful Island home

Metadata

Model
Book
Contributors
Publisher
John Ings, Queen's Printer
Place Published (Jurisdiction)
Prince Edward Island
Place Published
Charlottetown, P.E.I
Date Issued
1861
Mode of Issuance
monographic
Resource Type
Book
Form
print
Extent
139, xxxvi p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Genre
travelers’ writings
Table of Contents

Chapter I: Introductory remarks -- Chapter II: What's in a name? -- Chapter III: Legislative topics, 1773-1831 -- Chapter IV: Legislative topics, 1832-1841 -- Chapter V: Legislative topics, 1842-1850 -- Chapter VI: Legislative topics, 1851-1860 -- Chapter VII: Charlottetown, &c. -- Chapter VIII: Acreage and the proprietary -- Chapter IX: Coast line, West Cape to Cape Bear -- Chapter XII: Population -- Chapter XIII: Census, 1861 -- XIV: A remedy suggested for a great evil -- Chapter XV: Natural history -- Chapter XVI: Ornithology -- Chapter XVII: Entomology -- Chapter XVIII: Ichthyology -- Chapter XIX: The seasons -- Chapter XX: Botany -- Chapter XXI: Farming -- Turnips: Queen's County, Prince County, King's County -- Farming continued -- Chapter XXII: Religion, morality and worship -- Chapter XXIII: Missionary, bible, scientific, literacy and benevolent societies -- Militia, volunteers, and courts of law -- Public Officers -- Chapter XXIV: Education.

Note

by C. Birch Bagster.

36 p. of appendices at back of book cover topics from general exports for 1860 to geology, agriculture, fisheries and various reprints of articles written for the Examiner, Royal Gazette, etc.

Issued in white paper board with black type ; full title and publishing info on cover - varies slightly from t.p.

Subject (Topical)
Description and travel
Canadian immigration literature
Emigration and immigration
Subject (Geographic)
Prince Edward Island
Subject (Temporal)
To 1873
Rights
In Copyright

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