CHAPTER XI.

HE reader’s attention is now directed to the obituary of those prominent citizens whose demise occurred during the period of the three decades immediately prior to Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee. ~

Of that mournful record the eye first rests on the decease of the Hon. '1‘. H. Haviland, Mayor of Charlottetown, who departed this life during June, 1867, aged 72 years. Mr. Haviland was born at Gloucester, England. He came to the Island about the year 1817. Some few years subsequent he became a member of the Executive Council, and was alter- nately, Treasurer and Colonial Secretary. In 1857 he was elected Mayor of the City, which position he held for ten consecutive years, and was also President of the Bank of Prince Edward Island.

The next death to record is that of the late Adjutant General Lieut.-Colonel Peter D. Stewart, which sad event took place on the Ist November, the same year, at his residence, Spring Park. Colonel Stewart was born in Charlottetown, in 1785, where his days ended at the age of eighty-two years. At the age of fourteen he obtained a commission in the Royal Artillery, and as an officer of that regiment first performed garrison duty in the fortification of his native town. England being at war, young Stewart was present with the armament against Copen- hagen in 1807. After a long service he retired from the army and returned to the land of his birth. Here on the retirement