Jedediah Slason Carvell

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.

Jedediah Carvell died in Charlottetown in 1894.

In 1872, He was appointed Trustee of St. Peter's Cathedral by Bishop Hibbert Binney. He served St. Peter's as a warden in 1874.

Biography prepared by Edgar Macdonald for St. Peter's Cathedral 150th Anniversary (2019)
See also:
The Office of the Lieutenant Governor PEI https://www.lgpei.ca/former-governors/jedediah-slason-carvell
Dictionary of Canadian Biography http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/carvell_jedediah_slason_12E.html