480 PAST AND PRESENT OF Contingent which went to from Prince Edward Island during the Boer war, and remained with the contingent throughout the service. Upon their return to Canada he went out with the Second Canadian Mounted Rifles, with the rank of lieutenant xand continued with them until their return, when he received an honorouble discharge. Since going, west he has received from King Edward Vll a permanent commission in the British army. Four near relatives of his from Prince Edward Island were also in the Boer war. (5) Ethel. (6) Annie is de¬ ceased. (7) Lula, deceased. (8) Pearl. In June, 1864, the subject enlisted in the Prince of Wales ' Company, on Prince Ed ¬ ward Island, under Captain Rankin , and ' served in that command until 1875, when the regiment was reorganized as the Eighty- second Regiment Dominion Militia, when he enlisted as a sergeant, having borne that rank during his former service. Continuing in the service, he was made a lieutenant, and eventually captain of the Third Company, which command he retained for twenty years. He was then promoted to major and received the Colonial Medal from Queen Victoria for continuous service. On March 12, '1902, he was made colonel of the Eighty- second Regiment , which po¬ sition he still holds. Colonel Stewart has thus had an exceptionally long military rec¬ ord, of which he may justly be proud, as the record is one replete with duty faithfully performed and which comprises a career well worthy of emulation. The Colonel has taken a live interest in local public affairs and is a member of the Charlottetown city council, representing the fourth ward, and is chairman of the market committee and the public property committee. His fraternal relations are with the Masons, being a past master of St John's Lodge, and with the Independent Order of Foresters. He is also a member of the Caledonia Club, of which he is a past president and past chief. He is a than of stanch qualities and possesses the confidence and high regard of all who know him. John A. Mathieson , K. C, M. L. A ., one of the prominent barristers and leading citizens of Prince Edward Island , was born at Harrington , Queens county, on the 19th of May, 1863, and is a son of Ronald and Anne (Stewart) Mathieson, the father a na¬ tive of Argyleshire, Scotland , and the mother of Harrington , Prince Edward Island . In 1831 Ronald .Mathieson came to Prince Ea- ward Island and located at Harrington , where he engaged in farming. He was highly esteemed in his community, and his death oc¬ curred in 1885, at the age of seventy-eighi years. John A. Mathieson attended the public schools and then entered the Harrington Grammar School, in which the present presi¬ dent of Cornell University, Dr. Schurman , was a teacher. During the following two years he was engaged in clerking and then entered Prince of Wales College. He next became principal of Desable Grammar School, where he remained two years, and then went to Manitoba , where for one and a half years he was engaged in teaching. Re ¬ turning at the end of that time to Prince Edward Island he became principal of the Kensington Grammar School, which position he retained four years. Deter¬ mining then to adopt the legal profes¬ sion, Mr. Mathieson read law with Mc¬ Lean & McDonald and in 1894 was ad¬ mitted to the bar. He began the practice