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