The French colony of Īle Saint Jean - founded in 1720 - was occupied by the British
in 1758 and formally ceded by France in 1763 by the Treaty of Paris.
At first part of Nova Scotia, it became the separate British colony of St. John's
Island - renamed Prince Edward Island in 1799 - in 1769.
The colony was granted internal selfgovernment in 1851.
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BRITISH CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR
Lieutenant Governors
1847 - 1850 Sir Donald Campbell 1800 - 1850
1850 - 1851 Ambrose Lane* 1791 - 1853
1851 - 1854 Sir Alexander Bannerman 1783 - 1864
1854 - 1859 Sir (1856) Dominick Daly 1798 - 1868
1859 Charles Young*
1859 - 1868 George Dundas 1819 - 1880
1868 - 1870 Sir Robert Hodgson 1798 - 1880
1870 - 1873 Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson 1834 - 1897
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MINISTERS
Premiers
1851 - 1854 George Coles 1810 - 1875
1854 - 1855 John Myrie Holl 1802 - 1869
1855 - 1859 George Coles (2x)
1859 - 1863 Edward Palmer 1809 - 1889
1863 - 1865 John Hamilton Gray 1812 - 1887
1865 - 1867 James Colledge Pope 1826 - 1885
1867 - 1869 George Coles (3x)
1869 Joseph Hensley 1824 - 1884
1869 - 1870 Robert Poore Haythorne 1815 - 1891
1870 - 1871 James Colledge Pope (2x) 1836 - 1885
1871 - 1873 Robert Poore Haythorne (2x)
1873 James Colledge Pope (3x)
CANADIAN PROVINCE OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
In 1873 Prince Edward Island joined the Dominion of Canada
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ROYAL REPRESENTATIVES
Lieutenant Governors
1873 - 1874 Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson s.a.
1874 - 1879 Sir Robert Hodgson (2x) 1798 - 1880
1879 - 1884 Thomas Heath Haviland 1822 - 1895
1884 - 1889 Andrew Archibald Macdonald 1829 - 1912
1889 - 1894 Jedediah Slason Carvell 1832 - 1894
1894 - 1899 George William Howlan 1835 - 1901
1899 - 1904 Peter Adolphus McIntyre 1840 - 1910
1904 - 1910 Donald Alexander MacKinnon 1863 - 1928
1910 - 1915 Benjamin Rogers 1837 - 1923
1915 - 1919 Augustine Colin Macdonald 1837 - 1919
1919 - 1924 Murdoch McKinnon 1865 - 1944
1924 - 1930 Frank Richard Heartz 1871 - 1955
1930 - 1933 Charles Dalton 1850 - 1933
1933 - 1939 George Des Brisay de Blois 1887 - 1964
1939 - 1945 Bradford William LePage 1876 - 1964
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MINISTERS
Premiers
1873 James Colledge Pope s.a.
1873 - 1876 Lemuel Cambridge Owen 1822 - 1912
1876 - 1879 Sir Louis Henry Davies 1845 - 1924
1879 - 1889 Sir William Wilfred Sullivan 1843 - 1920
1889 - 1891 Neil McLeod 1842 - 1915
1891 - 1897 Frederick Peters 1852 - 1919
1897 - 1898 Alexander Bannerman Warburton 1852 - 1929
1898 - 1901 Donald Farquharson 1834 - 1903
1901 - 1908 Arthur Peters 1854 - 1908
1908 - 1911 Francis Longworth Haszard 1849 - 1938
1911 Herbert James Palmer 1851 - 1939
1911 - 1917 John Alexander Mathieson 1863 - 1947
1917 - 1919 Aubin Edmond Arsenault 1870 - 1969
1919 - 1923 John Howatt Bell 1845 - 1929
1923 - 1927 James David Stewart 1874 - 1933
1927 - 1930 Albert Charles Saunders 1874 - 1943
1930 - 1931 Walter Maxfield Lea 1874 - 1936
1931 - 1933 James David Stewart (2x)
1933 - 1935 William Joseph Parnell MacMillan 1881 - 1957
1935 - 1936 Walter Maxfield Lea (2x)
1936 - 1943 Thane Alexander Campbell 1895 - 1978
1943 - 1953 John Walter Jones 1878 - 1954
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