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Jedediah Slason Carvell

  • Canada
  • Person
  • 1832-1894

Jedediah Slason CArvell was born in 1832 of Loyalist parents in Newcastle New Brunswick. Following his early education in Saint John and the Fredricton Collegiate SChool, he moved to Australia where he lived fro several years before returning to North America in 1855. Upon his return, he first lived in California and then in Oregon where he was engaged in the lumber business. Carvell moved back to New Brunswick where he worked with the contractors building the European and North American Railway. He moved to Charlottetown in 1860 and became a very successful general marchant mainly thoguh import and export trading. He served as Mayor of Charlottetown from 1877 to 1878. In 1879, he was appointed to the Canadian Senate, a position he held until his death in 1894.

Thomas Heath Haviland

  • Canada
  • Person
  • 1822-1895

Thomas Health Haviland was born into an affluent and influential family in Charlottetown. In the 1840s he studied law in the office of James Horsfield Peters. Entering politics in 1846 he sat in the PEI legislative Assembly from 1846-1876. During those years he held numerous positions including Colonial Secretary, Speaker of the House and Solicitor General, He was a strong supporter of Confederation and was one of the the three commissioners who helped negotiate Prince Edward Island's entry into Confederation in 1873. He sat as a member of the Canadian senate from 1873 to 1879, served as Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island from 1879 to 1884 and , as Mayor of Charlottetown from 1886 to 1893.

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