4 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHRONOLOGY OF P. E. ISLAND 
     
    
   
   
    
     1534—June 21, land now called P. E. Island sighted and visited 
     
     by Jacques Cartier. 
     
    
   
   
    
     l72l— Abbe Brislay, first missionary to the Island, arrived. 
     
    
   
   
    
     173o—M Depenoons arrived from France as Governor and landed 
     
     at Port-la-Joie 
     
    
   
   
    
     1739—Forest fire devastated country from East Point to St.Peter's 
     
     Bay. 
     
    
   
   
    
     1758—Lord Rollo, arrived at Port-la-Joie in August and took pos- 
     
     session for Great Britain. 
     
    
   
   
    
     r763——Island formally ceded to Great Britain by Treaty of Paris. 
     
     Memorial by the Earl of Egmont for a grant of the whole 
     
     Island to himself, his nine children and a number of land 
     
     and sea officers. 
     
    
   
   
    
     1764—May 9, Prayer of Memorialists definitely refused. Captain 
     
     Holland arrived from England to make a survey of the 
     
     Island. 
     
    
   
   
    
     i764—May 12, Admiral Knowles and associates ask for a grant of 
     
     the whole Island to be divided into lots of 20,000 acres each, 
     
     and engage to complete the settlement of the Island within 
     
     ten years. 
     
    
   
   
    
     i767—Land of the Island divided by ballot. subject to certain con- 
     
     ditions, among persons who had claims upon the British 
     
     Government. 
     
    
   
   
    
     I768—Mr. Morris, land surveyor, laid out the site of Charlottetown. 
     
    
   
   
    
     l769—June 28, Imperial Order in Council passed that a separate 
     
     Government be constituted in St. John’s Island. July [4, 
     
     Walter Patterson appointed first Governor of the Island of 
     
     St. John, and Seal ordered for the Island according to the 
     
     following description : “ On the one side, a representation 
     
     of a large spreading oak with a shrub under it and the leg- 
     
     end or motto underneath, Parva sub Ingenti ; and this in- 
     
     scription around the circumference, ‘ Sigillum Insulate 
     
     SanctiJohannis in America, and on the reverse His Majesty‘s 
     
     arms, crown,'garter and supporters.’ ” On the circumfer- 
     
     ence were to be the King’s titles in Latin. July 31, Thomas 
     
     DesBrisay appointed first Colonial Secretary.