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late Queen Victoria, it was changed by an act of the colonia legislature to Prince Edward Island. The Duke at that time was commander of the forces at Halifax, and he had built a fort and established a garrison at Charlottetown.

Like the rest “of the Maritime,” the Island of Prince Edward received its quota of Loyalists. When Shelburne, in Nova Scotia—that great city that was to be, founded after the close of the Revolutionary War by those who were not satisfied with the new order of things—collapsed, about one hundred of its inhabitants came to Prince Edward Island, settling mostly on the south shore. Many well-known families of to-day—thrifty and prosperous citizens of such fine farming districts as Bedeque, Pownal, Vernon River, etc.—are descendants of those who in 1783 preferred George of England to his namesake of Washington.

Prince Edward Island remained a separate province from the 1st of May, 1769, until July Ist, 1873, when-it became part of the Dominion of Canada. An agitation for the establishment of responsible government, started in 1834, resulted in this being granted in 1851, since which time the executive has been recognized as responsible to the legislature. Some acts of very great importance were afterwards passed, among others being those providing for the establishment of a uniform rate of postage. the assimilation of the currency, and free education; and in 1853 a measure was enacted which conferred universal suffrage on the people. Since confeder- ation, the Island's history is the record of its marvellous agricultural expansion and its advancement educationally and otherwise, all of which is chronicled elsewhere.

The Land QUEStiOn.—AN0 historical sketch of Prince Edward Island would be complete without reference to what is known as “The Land Question.” When, in 1767,the whole province, with the exception of three townships and some small reservations, was alienated in one day by the Crown, there was fastened upon the country an incubus which it took