HON. DONALD A. MACKINNON,

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

DONALD ALEXANDER MACKINNON, lieu— tenant governor of Prince Edward Island, son of William MacKinnon, was born at Uigg, on the 215t of February, 1863. In his boyhood he attended the grammar school at the place of his birth and became a teacher. He was a student at Prince of Wales College and Dalhousie Law School, from which he graduated in 1887 with the degree of Bach- elor of Laws. In the same year he was admit- ted an attorney of the supreme court and en- gaged in the practice of his profession at Georgetown, where he resided ten years. He then removed to Charlottetown and entered into partnership with Premier VVarburton, afterward a judge, and subsequently associ— ated with him in the firm of E. Bayfield Wil- liams. Mr. MacKinnon was appointed as Queen’s Counsel in 1899 and the following year was chosen president of the Law So- ciety. He was also law agent for the min- ister of justice of Canada.

In 1893 he was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly to represent Murray Harbor. In 1897 he was again elected to the Assembly by the same constituency and subsequently became attorney general of the Liberal administration. In a bye-election in 1899 he was not elected. In 1900 he was

elected a member of the House of Commons of Canada for the riding of East Queens. The election was contested in the supreme court and a new election ordered, which took place on March 20, 1901, when Mr. Mac- Kinnon was re-elected and represented the riding until the end of the parliamentary term in 1904. He served on the leading com- mittees of Parliament, chiefly on those of railways, public accounts and miscellaneous private bills. He has taken an active part in - obtaining many improvements for the Island during his public career and a deep interest in the advancement of the best and highest interests of the county, and he enjoys the confidence and esteem of the people.

The most important public works in the province, with which his name is intimately associated for his aid in bringing them to a successful issue, are the Belfast and Murray Harbour Railway and the Hillsboro bridge, the latter being one of the largest in Canada, and the whole costing a few million dollars, —p1‘oviding the conveniences of modern life for trade and travel for the south part of the Island.

He married Miss Owen, daughter of Charles Owen, Georgetown, and has a fam- ly of two sons and a daughter.

, THE POPE FAMILY.

HON. JOSEPH POPE, the subject of this sketch, was born at Plymouth. England, on June 20th, 1803. He was the sixth son of Thomas Pope, who died when he was a child. His elder brothers, Thomas, John and William, were associated in carrying

on a mercantile business, being proprietors of a large dry dock, situated at Cat Water, in the eastern harbor. Owing to the Na— poleonic wars the demand for timber was largely increased, while it became corre- spondingly difficult to obtain. To supply