The Celtic fact, which is perhaps the dominant trait of the smallest province of present day Canada is the most misunderstood and misinterpreted facet of our island culture. This province has a very positively defined and well developed culture and way of life; this being the age old Celtic culture and Celtic way of life. This culture has been both mistifying and baffling to Upper Canadian brothers, especially to the producers of C. B. C., who inevitably present the Celtic fact of our culture as the apparently well-greased buggy and its accompanying buggy horse.

Our brothers in Upper Canada do not realize that the Island's heritage and culture goes back 300 years on the Island and has roots buried deep in the Celtic cultures of the old countries.

THE LAND QUESTION 0N P. E. I.

In l763 by the Treaty of Paris the Isle de St. Jean was annexed to the British Colony of Nova Scotia and became known as the Island of St. John. The Island did not receive its present name until I799 when it was named after Prince Edward Duke of Kent.

In l76h the British Government commissioned Captain Samuel Holland to survey the Island into 67 lots of about 20,000 acres each. These lots were given by lottery to men who were friends with government officials.

The men who received the lots were to fill the following conditions of settlement:

(l) A quit rent payable annually on one-half of the grant at the expiration of 5 years and on the whole at the expiration of l0 years after the date of grant;

(2) a reservation of part of each lot for public use;

(3) each township to be settled within l0 years in the proportion of one person for every 200 acres;

(4) such settlers to be European protestants; 6

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