PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

cation in the public schools of Charlotte- town, after which he attended at Prince of Wales College, and later at King’s College, Windsor, Nova Scotia. During 1872 and 1873 he studied law in his father's office, and when the latter was appointed judge of the county court the subject went into the office of Palmer & McLeod. In 1876 he was admitted to the bar as an attorney, being made a notary at the same time, and in 1877 he was made a barrister. In the latter year he became a partner in the firm of Palmer & McLeod, composed. of the following gentlemen besides himself: Charles Pal- mer, Malcolm McLeod and D. C. McLeod, the two first named being now deceased. On January I, 1891, the subject with- drew from the firm and engaged in the practice on his own account, in which he has uniformly met with success. In 1898 he was made a King’s Counsel. Mr. Palmer represented Fort Augustus in the Provincial Assembly for four years, and occasionally during the absence of Mr. Peters, the present premier, has acted in the place of the attorney general.

Mr. Palmer was married, on October 19, 1880, to Miss Ada Palmer, who was born in Charlottetown, the daughter of Charles Palmer, the subject’s late law partner. To this union have been born the following children: Helen, Adele, Philip, Harold and Charles.

GILBERT GAUDET, junior member of the well known law firm of Haszard & Gaudet, Charlottetown, was born at Muddy Creek, Lot 17, Prince county, Prince Edward Island, on September 16, 1.867, the son of John A. and Mary (DesRoche) Gaudet, both also natives of Muddy Creek. The paternal

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great—grandfather, John Gaudet, was of the old Acadian stock, and early settled in the westem part of the Island, being one of the first settlers at Malpeque, on the shores of Malpeque bay. His son, the subject’s grand-

father, Amable Gaudet, remained in the

same section and there followed farming, his death occurring in 1897, at the age of eighty-four years. John A. Gaudet con~ tinues to reside in Lot I 7 and is numbered among the successful farmers of that com- munity. Of his five children, the subject of this sketch is the eldest.

Gilbert Gaudet received a public school education, after which he attended Prince of Wales College. For some years he was engaged in teaching school, and then entered St. Dunstan's College, and later Lavell University, at Quebec, where he took the examination entitling him to the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In February, 1896, Mr. Gaudet entered the law office of Davis & Haszard, the senior member of the firm being the present Sir Louis H. Davis, now of the Supreme Court of Canada, while per- sonal mention is made of Mr. Haszard else- where in this volume. When, in October, 1901, Mr. Davis was raised to the bench, Mr. Gaudet entered the firm as junior part- ner, the style becoming Haszard & Gaudet. In May, 1900, Mr. Gaudet had been ad- mtited as an attorney and on May 2nd, of the following year, he was made a barris- ter. He gives his undivided attention to his profession and is meeting with marked success.

BRUCE STEWART.——-The subject of this sketch is distinctively one of the representa- tive business men of Charlottetown and the enterprise of which he is the head is num-