’ PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

doctor. Donald McDonald was a man of fair education for his day, and was a suc- cessful farther at Vernon River.

The subject of this sketch after attend- ing the public schools, took a course at the provincial normal school, after which he was for some years engaged in teaching school. He then entered the literary department of the Island Argus newspaper, where he re-

'mained until that paper was absorbed by the

Examiner, in 1881, when he accepted his present position as chief clerk of the Prince Edward Island Railway, filling the position until he was appointed superintendent of that road. Subsequently, owing to a change in the administration of the property, he was again appointed to the chief clerkship. He is considered a thoroughly competent man for this position or any other to which he may be'called in the future.

In November, 1878, Mr. McDonald was married to Miss Mary A. Ryan. of Char- lottetown, [and to them have been born two children, Nellie, and George, who is em- ployed in the Charlottetown branch of the Royal Bank' of Canada. Mr. McDonald is now chief of the Caledonia Club of Prince Edward Island, and is a member of the Knights of Columbus, in which he is grand knight of the Charlottetown council, and of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association, of which order he is chancellor and a trustee. He is a man of many fine personal qualities and enjoys the sincere respect of all with whom he is acquainted.

GEORGE A. SHARP, the capable and pop- ular superintenent of the Prince Edward Is- land Railway, was bom at Studholm, Kings county, New Brunswick, on February 3,

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1852, and is the son of Joseph and Eleanor (Johnston) Sharp, natives also of that place. The subject’s paternal grandfather, who lived on Staten Island, New York, was an ardent Loyalist and after the war of the Revolution he sacrificed all his possessions there and came to Kings county, New Brunswick, where he engaged in farming, being successful in this vocation. The sub- ject’s father continued on the old homestead and, in addition to farming, was engaged in lumbering, owning a sawmill and grist- mill, being a man of marked energy and good business ability. In 1882 he moved to Winnipeg, where he died shortly afterward.

GeorgeA. Sharp received his education in Studholm and also took a course in the com- mercial schools. He then took up the study of telegraphy and eventually became con- nected with the Intercolonial Railway. In 1875 he came to Prince Edward Island and became freight clerk at Charlottetown for the newly opened Prince Edward Island Railway, being one of the first employes of that road, and in June of the same year he was promoted to the position of freight agent at Charlottetown. In January, 1881, he was promoted to the position of station agent, which position he retained until July, 1897, when his faithfulness and ability received most substantial recognition in his promo- tion to the responsible'position of superin- tendent of the Prince Edward Island Rail- way. He has thus passed through practically every branch of railroading and has merited every promotion that has come to him. He keeps a careful supervision over every de- tail of the affairs of the road and much of the success of the enterprise is due to his sound judgment and careful discrimina- tion. He is a good disciplinarian and at the same time commands the absolute confidence