("Imp/er 0110 El 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     source of information about the Island Acadiaas is the book 
     
     of that name by Georges Arsenault (Ragweed Press, 
     
     Charlottetown, 1998). Naomi Griffiths' books, such as The 
     
     Acadia) 15: C rratiaa afa I ’eop/e (McGra w-Hill Ryerson, Toronto, 
     
     1973), are valuable for Acadian history in general. 
     
    
   
   
    
     No local writers of Irish descent produced anything 
     
     equivalent to Gilbert Buote’s work. The article entitled “The 
     
     First Irish Settlers of Tignish" in the Impartial Illusfré may 
     
     also be by him, though the style is rather different. More 
     
     likely, it was written either by his son, Francois-Joseph, co- 
     
     editor and printer of the Impartial, or by Father A.E. Burke, 
     
     pastor of the nearby parish of Alberton. Father Burke was 
     
     interested in history and was of Irish descent. The Oxford 
     
     History aflrelaad edited by RF. Foster (Oxford University 
     
     Press, Oxford, 1992) is an invaluable short history of a 
     
     complex subject, which served as background for the Irish 
     
     section, and provided a number of quotations. 
     
    
   
   
    
     For information regarding the auctioning of Prince 
     
     Edward Island into sixty-six lots to British notables in 
     
     the mid—eighteenth-century, see any history of the Island. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     p. 8 — From notes on the map Samuel Holland drew 
     
     after circumnavigating Prince Edward Island. 
     
    
   
   
    
     p.14 — Letter to the Editor, The Palladium, Charlottetown, 
     
     14 December 18—13. 
     
    
   
   
    
     p. 14 - Themame, now spelt Poirier, was pronounced (and 
     
     sometimes spelt) Perrey in the eig iteenth century 
     
     and into the nineteenth. At some point in the latter 
     
     century, it was anglicized to Perry, which is the form 
     
     used in Tignish today. 
     
    
   
   
    
     p. 16 — The Orthrd Historyaflre/and, ed. ER. Foster, pp. 143, 144. 
     
     p.16 — Foster, ibid, p. 137. 
     
     p.18 — Foster, ibid, pp. 142,156,164.