•£- ar clgns Indicative of the energy sad ideal.; of the a •arly iiottlero. !o that we can acre fully appreciate the history of Cardigan, we aiuet first consider, in auamary form, the gene¬ ral hivtory of the Island, 3he people living on Prince Edward Island at the earliest period of which anything U known wore ouri-quolo Indiann, Any rights of occupancy they poo e* «d are now limited to tfce Ie*enre» at Lennox Island and , their descendant* mattering two-hundred and fifty-four Micaae: ,x ■the firat white sen, who landed on the choree of the future 'Garden of the «wlf* and loft a record of what he saw, was Jacques Cartier , in his voyage of 15M*"2 for aero tfean a century following the visit of cartier, the French aade little effort to proaote the colonisation of Prince Bdward Island* Henee, the early history of the Island naalfesta groat neglect ta the pert of the Bother Country* In the Island of St. John, prior to X7*0» there were only two French familios, one at #&. !?*•*• H«****» the other at III}*}* *»*& living by fiohing. > the end SLUr**!15* f4?°* nAmp of ooloaiaation was rorned. it consisted of nineteen families, asking in all one hundred souls. Aon ttere 9 I?* la two currents of immigration, on direc¬ tly from France, the other from Acadia*. 1. MaeZinnon,r.A..Hlstorjr of Prince M ,^ IAand.. pa, 2. Harvey , P.C. . ftp Freneh Pjgjmj fe Pw^noj jBward Maa.^ i . 3. wartumton, A*B*t h Bl*ttrr of Prince jjwjaj Ti«*. p#?5.