The Macdonalds of Panmure Island and the Challenge of Change on Prince Edward Island, 1805–1919
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20461230 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward Macdonald (University of Prince Edward Island, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 33-54 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Review of Canadian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-2011 • E-ISSN: 1943-9954 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02722011.2025.2510840 |
| OpenAlex | W4411928640 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
The Macdonald family business dynasty on Prince Edward Island, Canada, spanned the long nineteenth century, the most transformative period in the province’s history, as European settlement progressively replaced its old growth forest with pastoral countryside and exploited the small island’s terrestrial and marine resources. From its origins in a wide-open, frontier environment through the economic stagnation of the post-Confederation era, the shifting fortunes of the Macdonalds’ modest business empire index the sequential expansion then contraction of a resource-extraction economy in a spatially limited setting. By chronicling how three generations of one resilient merchant family both shaped and adapted to the sweeping physical, economic, social, and demographic changes that characterized their world, it is possible to both ground-truth and humanize the larger trends that challenged those doing business in Canada’s Atlantic world
Environmental ethics · Genealogy · Geography · Canadian Identity and History · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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