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1' The Neil MacDonald and Alex and Donald MacAulay farms. Leard Papers, Reel 14 Pioneers. Interview: George MacDonald (George Joe Neil) January 18, 1950. "Neil, my grandfather, had the first deed ever issued for this Lot 45. Neil's brother (father of John A. MacDonald, surveyor, Her- manville) settled here first, then Neil traded farms with him. Neil got Surveyor Stewart from Charlottetown and had this half of the lot surveyed at his own expense. He got the deed from his brother. We still have the map...ragged...used to go to Georgetown every spring for years. Origi- nal proprietors of the Lot were supposed to have died in France leaving no heirs." Landlord-Tenant Problems:

’2 Royal Gazette, January 10, 1837.

‘3 Harry Baglole, “William Cooper of Sailor's Hope,” The Island Magazine, Number 7, Fall and Winter, 1979, p. 7.

1‘ Journal of House of Assembly, April 15, 1843.

’5 Leard Papers, Reel 14 Riot Line Road.

1° Evidence was given at the July 21, 1843 sitting of the Court at Georgetown. The Grand Jury threw the bill which had been preferred against 38 people for riot.

2" Warrant Book, May 4, 1843.

’3 A special committee was ordered to inquire

into the proceedings of the Solicitor Gen-

eral (Peters) against the tenantry and squatters in his capacity as land agent and the manner in which agents of David

Stewart are settling lands claimed by him.

.1131;er of House of Assembly, 1843.

1 .

“Highlanders, Irishmen and the Land

Question in nineteenthcentury Prince

Edward Island,” LR. Robertson. P.A.P.E.I.

Accession 2963, Item 1.

Chapter V - The Sea

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This chapter. The Sea, was written by George A. Leard for publication in the Guardian but it was never printed.

The material is taken from Reel 13:

Filleting Plants Fishing Mackerel Fishing Fishplants Fish Meal Fishermen Riots American Fishermen Fish (Sundry Items) Gloucester Fleets Fishing Seals Fishing Lobsters & Oysters Fishing 'Ih‘out & Salmon Freezers & Dryers See also Reel 4, Fishing and Fisheries.

‘ beard Papers. Reel 14, under Riots, inter- view with H.D. McLean, 1960.

References

2 Gloucester Daily Times, January 21, 1896.

3 Leard Papers, Reel 13, Fishing American- Gloucester Fleets. “Rescue at Malpeque”, Daily Examiner, February 1887. See also Examiner, February 8, 1887, Captain Solo- man Jacobs own account of the rescue.

‘ Author of the poem, "The Night Sol Jacobs Died,” is unknown. It appeared in the Guardian, c. 1923. Leard Papers, Reel 13, Glouwster.

Chapter VI - Commercial

John Knight and Donald Benton: ‘ Leard Papers, Reel 13 and Reel 6, Knight

According to folklore, the Mat- thew & Mclean Limited Wharf (later sold to East Pac) was the one purchased by John Knight from Neil MacDonald but this is difficult to document.

The first purchase of land that John Knight made was in 1840, one acre for 50 pounds from John McFarlane and his wife Eliza. Liber 48, Folio 45. It was bounded on the north by land owned by Donald Beaton. on the east by land owned by Edmund Keays on the south by land owned by L. Bishop and on the west by Col- ville Bay. This could be the des- cription of the East Pac Wharf location.

In the Journal of the House of Assem- bly, 1846, page 31, Neil MacDonald’s re quest for funds to improve his wharf reads as follows:

A petition of Neil MacDonald, trader of Souris, setting forth that the Legislature had in former sessions appropriated a sum of money for the construction of a wharf at Souris Harbour, but the land adjoining the proposed site being claimed by the assignees of Mr. Cunard, Halifax, the Com- missioner of Roads was prevented from expending the money grant- ed; that Petitioner has erected a wharf on his own premises ad- joining the intended site of the aforesaid wharf, the free use of which he has given to the public; and praying that his right and interest in the wharf so built by him may be purchased for public use or otherwise be allowed com- pensation for the use thereof.

(Assembly Journal, p. 57) Peti- tion of Neil MacDonald taken up again and read. Mr. D. Mac- Donald moved it be referred to the committee on supply. House divided: six yeas, twelve nays. Petition referred to Committee.