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Georgetown and Souris. Education also was promoted by Lieu- tenant Governor Ready. The first census of the Island’s inhabit-

ants was taken by his order. It showed that in the year 1830 the .

populatiOn of the ISland numbered 52,226 persons and that of Charlottetown 1649. The Benevolent Irish Society was, under his patronage, established inCharlottetoWn. He was an Irishman by birth and a highly intelligent and active worker on behalf of the people over whom he exercised supervision and authority. Great regret was felt and expressed when, 1n the year 1831, he was recalled to the Mother Country and promoted to a larger sphere 'of usefulness.

No. II—James DOuglas Haszard

On the other hand, among the men in private life who 1n- fluenced the course of events in Prince Edward Island, previous to the concession of Responsible Government, none were more con- tinuously active than James Douglas Haszard. Mr. Haszard was A a publisher and editor, Kings and Queen’s printer, Lieut. Colonel in the Militia and Secretary-Treasurer for several years of the Royal Agricultural Society. He was the son of Mr. Thomas R. Haszard, a Loyalist who had received a grant of land in the Island from the British Government in compensation for the losses he sustained in the American War of Independence, and he was born

at Charlottetown on the 27th of June 1797.

When yet very young he obtained the elements of education at the school for juveniles kept by Mr. John McLaren. ' In the meantime, at the printing office. of his uncle, Mr. James Bagnall, he acquired skill-in typesetting. Indeed he became so soon pro- ficient in theuart preservative of all arts” that at the 'age of eleven . years, his uncle having gone to Halifax, he was enabled to print the proclamations of the Lieutenant Governor, blank writs for the lawyers and other documents required in the community. In the year 1816 he was sent to a school in Halifax. Thence he returned . with his uncle to Charlottetown in the following year, and took part in the establishment and publication of a newspaper called The Recorder. 1111821 he went to Rhode Island to print the laws of that State. There. he was treated with great kindness by re-'

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