A crescent island of red soil divided among absentee landlords by lottery in 1767, made its own colony two years later.
Held out of Confederation in 1864 but, crushed by railway debt, joined Canada as its seventh province in 1873; the absentee-landlord question was finally bought out.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for St. John's Island / Prince Edward Island — the shape you scrub through changes in 1769 · 1799.
The standard Oxford survey of Canadian history covering the Maritime and Canadian colonies through Confederation, serving all five cited polities.
Broad national history situating PEI's late entry into Confederation in 1873.