Land Commission 1875:

Lot 7: 'some heavy hardwood land that a fire has run over'.

'Burnt barrens’ on Lot 7. iv

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V w Land Commission 1875: \2/ ’Bumt barrens' on Lot 9. . / / ‘~

Land Commission 1875:

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[Lawson] 1877- 1878: ’About 20 years ago'. ’a great fire ran

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/ ”3/ from Miminegash towards North Cape'.

/Crasweli 8 Anderson 1856: ’A large tract of burnt land'.

Mollison [1905]: About 1840: ’a big fire between Conway and Ellerslie'.

[Lawson] 1877-1878:

in 1826 a terrific fire [coming from the south] leaped across the South-west River. _ \ li\ \ Land Commission 1875: ._ On a tenant farm of 50 acres: ’a// the timber was burned off before [the owner’s] time‘.

Before settlement: '1000 or 1500 acres bumed north of Hope River”,

/ , The front of Lot 24 has been burned over‘.

Chappell 1775, 1778: ’Fires’ at Elizabethtown.

Land Commission 1875:

At Johnston's River: ’the land appears to have been burned at some time’.

'The 500 acres of barren i on Lot 13 is burnt land'.

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Seymour 1840:

On a ’promontory' on theTrout River: ’the trees have been bumt'.

Stewart 1831:

Lot 29: ’the trees are burn! off'.

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Lawson post-1777: fl / At Stanhope: The woods burned’ near the mill'. «km/”Msfl]

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V W [Lawson] 1877 1878: \ WA \ \ \ ‘ About 1820. ’the first church in // Rx (‘5 fl Covehead burnt in a forest fire. N?)

K5: Vsmkirk 1803:

mot 53: ’a considerable tract of woods

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i r p / k x \ MK 3% \\ f/ / \, , j of which burned again last year’. 7 l// MCWR, «I? e * A. /A A: g , , c 1'" {Mi/"F Land Commission 1860: Selkirk 1803: / ”'7 \ _ . ‘4 Murray Harbour: ‘fires 'Old burnt woods near Chariottetowrr‘. if ”74:: _ have over-run the land'. Q; ChaPPell 1806, 1814, 1818: / .. [L Cundall 1855: FIres near Charlottetown. ./ rd. 7 /.. // 'considerable burnt woods

‘1 on both sides of the Murray River’.

Cambridge 1311: / _ J 'Very great fires in the woods Salklfk 1803: , near Charlottetown. , 'All this coast has been laid waste Cundall 1855: Mann 1829: VI" by a great fire 30 or 40 years ago ’At Murray Harbour: fires have committed

SutherIand 1351- great ravages among the timber.

At some time in the past: 'the area known/1 as Burnt Woods was over-run by a great fire'.

’The woods on fire in different '

1 46: ‘ directions nearto Charlottetown’. Gesner 8 \\

'The chief part of the road from Burnt Woods to Murray Harbour is covered with charred stumps and windfalls.’

The geographically-locatable references to forest fires or burnt land in the records of the British period.