Family History
Robert Fitzsimmons, a Renown Horseman
In 1895 an American horseman arrived at the Revere Hotel in Charlottetown wanting to buy the best young mare on P.E.I, for his stock farm, price no consideration, the proprietor, P.S. Brown, said I know where she is so tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. we leave for Long River. (Read More)The Honorable Joseph Murphy
Joseph Murphy was born on his father’s farm, along Frederick Cove, Lot 11, on April 11, 1827. Endowed with considerable intellectual ability and a burning ambition he was destined to assume a leadership role, not only during the early development of his native Lot 11, but Prince County in general. (Read More)Three Sisters Devoted to the Catholic Church
When Thomas Murphy of Freeland, Prince Edward Island, and Johanna Fitzsimmons, the teacher of School Lot Eleven, were married in St. Bridget Parish Church, they could not know that three of their eleven children would become Sisters of Providence and serve in the rapidly developing but far away West. (Read More)
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